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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Andrew- Miller has returned to New York from his southern trip greatly Improved in health. Harry A. Huck. editor of the Racing Calendar, has returned to his duties with the Jockey Club. from a vacation in the Bahamas. Bernard rijnn has a handsome yearling daughter of Peter Pan and Harlem Iass that be registered Tuesday, lie lost a weanling sister to this richly-bred Oily a few days ago. Harlem Lass has been sent back to Peter Pan. Racing Secretary Ehrloeker has announced tin-four steeplechase stakes of the Westchester fiae- ing Association that are to be decided at the l.el-assstt Park spring meeting. The entries for these fixtures dose March 13 and th.-y are BO attractive that the entry list in each is sure to be liberal. It is understood that the Golden Gate Thoroughbred Breeders Association of San Frami-co. i-tiguring on introducing in the legislature a measure that calls for a racing commission and the pari-inutuols. The members of this association are men of wealth and influence, and the prominent men in the trotting horse ranks cut Id do ■ lot of good fur racing If they unite in this eflort. If Governor ffrtehan Cantu of Lower California has a favorable report from his engineers on the plans for the bulkhead in the Tia Jtiana river the Tijuana track will be opened for racing between April 1 and ."i. ace riling to a telegram received at San Diego Saturday night from James W. Cof-froth. president of the Lower California Jockey Club. Ciffroth sent the telegram from Mexieali. where he had been conferring with the governor. It has often been said that jockey Taplin was the ls-st horse in the successful racing stable of H. Guy Bed well, and Tuesdays proceedings at Havana went far to suggest that the owner would at least be better off if he had retained the services of tic- rider who had been so long associated with his establishment. Three of the five winners were ridden by Taplin. and in two cases the next best horse was from the stable of his former employer. Judge C. II. Pettingill is in San Francisco on a visit. He is registered at the King George Hotel. Judge Pettingill came up from Tijuana, where he officiated as presiding judge. He intends to i-it friends for a couple of weeks until president .lame- V. Coffrotli of tlie Lower California Jockey Club makes some definite announcement of the re-• pining of the Tijuana track. If a start is made by next month as the promoters confidently expect, the judge will return to the south to take his place in the stand. Kings horses are not necessarily champion-, since the turf is one field where merit and achievement form the sole test. Of necessity, they tly at the highest game, and might show vastly hatter if they carried a commoners cetera and were not tried by the very top standard. Aniner. son of Ilorizel II. and Guinea Hen. was not able to reach the front rank in the company in which he raced for King George, but he was good enough to be started in the Derby of 1013, the memorable race in which a mad advocate of womans suffrage sought to advance the cause by betting on the course and throwing the hor-e down. It is reported that An mer has beea purchased for a Canadian owner, and will be landed here as soon as shipment can be made. — Franci- Nelson in Toronto Glolie.
