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NOTES OF THE TURF FROM ABROAD. The program for the Catwick. England, meeting on March 24 and 2S will contain fur events under National Hum Rales and the remainder to the weather of eight, will be flat races. The majority of the English flat-race Jockeys have ether been attested or rejected as unlit on account - I not being iqi to standard height and weight ■I. Clark has qualified fir his armlet, but Piper, t oiiis and Bobbins failed to pass the teat. The Cerinan Derby Hamburg is to be run on June 2o. At p resent nothing fur; ho- nas been definitely decided, says "Deutscher Sport." aliout the length of the meeting, but it is reckoned it will last at least three davs. with the Sanaa Preia the Derby and the ltenard Keunen as the chief races. News is fc hand of two important foalings at the Southcourt stud. Quintessence, winner of the woe Thousand Guineas, and dam of the -marl t larlssimus, produced on January S3 a good bay colt by Polymelns, while on February 1 Hecklers Pride dual Winner ot the Cambridgeshire, foaled a bay filly to Kunstar. The careers of both foals will be awaited with interest. Kiltoi. the winner of the Viceroys Cap al Calcutta, supplemented the victory bj taking the Gov-ernur s Cup on January Hi. ridden by Bowley. Second Edition Stoke-, was second, and .Manilla third. I he field also included Kalghta Key. Shin lag Way and Fredic. The mih- and three-quarters oi the race was run in 3:00%. a new record for the event, ami this latest performance of Kiltoi shows him to lie one of the finest Stayed ever brought to Imported anin als continue to do well in Australia. Ai Perth, Wert Australia, on January 1. lour ..1 tlie six races were a « by horses bought in England. Adelin, by tiaUaniag Lad— Tress, won the Sunn Handicap of ,250: Jackyarder, by John o Gaual Christie, the Welter Handicap. £1.250; High Bock, by Bock Sand--Haute-c. the All-Aged stakes. . :;. i-ti » : and Fail-. Morn, by Karla Mor Virginia Creeper, caried off the Federal Handicap of 11.000. Lord Lonsdale has pun based from the government the running qualities of seven two yea t old fillies, which were a part Of the horses donated t • lie nation by Cot W. Hall Walker. Their names and pedigrees are as follows: Albia. by Royal Realm— Burnt Almond; Candescent, bv White Kagle -Canidia: Eagles Best, bv White "Kagh — Miss Cue; llaiewood, bj Final Realm— Witch Kim: L ella. by Royal Realm -Fella Bonn; Royal Favour, by White Eagle— Order of Merit: Calais, by Roj al Realm Meinhart Those motoring to Windsor and passing the Kcinp-toa Dark race course, must have been struck by its changed appearance. Kempton Dark is now a huge motor garage. The stalls in the paddock are n iw occupied by motorcycles. The weighing room is now the main offices, aud the stands are the doctors quarters. However, the military authorities an- doing nothing to damage the race course itself, the moti rs beting "garaged" in the center ol" the park. Only in one place is a crossing over the race course allowed, and here the turf has been bridged over. London Sporting Life. Ol a race woe at Hawthorn Hill, February 12. bj the tit teen year-old Bory OMooie. London Sport ing Life said: "Only those owners and trainers who have had a horse as long under their are as Mr. Percy Whitaker has hail Bory 0Moore can appreciate a trainers fondness for a lion-hearted old battler like Bory* has been. The affection becomes even deeper when owner and trainer has ridden the horse so many times as Mr. Whitaker lias in this Instance. Before Saturdays victory Mr. Whitaker promised to retire the old horse in the event of his winning. No one will gainsay that the fearless eld fencer has earned his retirement. The combined ages of Bory 0Moore and Mr. Whitaker tola! i ixty "
