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I CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. M. Doyle has bought Waxemall from F. Ie Deque at Juarez. A number of horses at New Orleans are coughing. 5 hut the majority are healthy and doing well. ■ Joe Yeager and Charley Ellison are enlivening ■ matters in the Palm Garden ring. Both have been operating successfully and heavily. Tla .luana races set for Tuesday had to be postponed until Wednesday because the Tla .luana river : was flooded and threatening to cover the track. . Charles F. Mahone. who in the prosperous days of racing here, raced some good horses over the Chi- I cago tracks, is secretary of the San Antonio, Tex.. 1 organization which proposes a race meeting to open February 2!». While being galloped at the New Orleans Fair Grounds the three year-old chestnut gelding Resume. ] by Hanbridge — Gowauga. and owned by William Gent, broke his leg and was destroyed. Tho horse 1 had never raced. It is said that horsemen at New Orleans have not warmed up to the suggested meetings at Mobile and i San Antonio, the matter of 00 purses not appeal- I ing to them. However, if the Mobile project goes on, the offerings may be better. At present old h. rscs are quartered at the Jockey Club Juarez conrae. This number exceeds that of any other track racing this winter except, possibly. New Orleans. Fxactly seventy-six horses departed ■ for Tia .luana. bat many more could have been I spared and their absence not felt. The two English bookmakers, who for a time did a huge snd winning business at New Orleans, have 1 met reverses and quit. Report says they arc 1,080 loser and have decided to try their link at Tia ■luana. They will be missed at New Orleans, as it was their custom to take anything ottered. "Bill" McKinney is having a great season al Juarez with a small string, having in his stable Mud Sill. Dundreary and Weyauoke. Mud Sill and , Dundreary deliver the goods nearly every time they go to the post, while Weyanoke is rapidly rounding into form, and it will not lie long before he annexes a purse. Dundreary is a regular "liear" at 1 the Mexican course. He showed such line form in the selling races that his owner was compelled to run him with the handicap division, and he has more than held his own with this company. An authority says Ihat "Kentucky will see a greatly-improved rider when jockey C. Hunt arrives at Louisville next spring. This lad attracted but little attention on the Kentucky tracks last year, and at the first of the year at Juarez did nothing startling. Suddenly he struck his stride, and since then has been making turfmen sit up and take notice of his saddle work. The lad can sit still 011 a horse, can rate a throughbred in front, and in close finishes has put it over Loftus and other capable riders time after time. This lad is the best riding prospect in the country today."
