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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Frank Regan probably will ship the Cleveland d Stable string lo Mar land next month. The Mobile race meeting was called off last H Thursday because of lack of patronage. The racing of Robert Oavies ThoniclifTe Stable will be confined to the Canadian circuit again this 1S season. The trainers at Oravesend are beginning to give e their horses slow jogging on the track instead of • f in the covered training tracks. Boh Ililliard. noted actor, is to come into racing ., as an owner this season and will make some purchases r- from John K. Madden. Stephen I.awhr will not go to Maryland with the e division of tte Quincy Stable he is training, but II will probably take part in the opening of I he metropolitan scasim at Jamaica. . Walter Runciman. president of the Board of Trade, in replying to a question in the British ! , House of Commons Wednesday, said that he did not . object to additional race meetings at Newbury, Lingfield. Gatwick and Windsor. ■ King George has nominated the three year-old ll colt Marconi ior the P.rahraham Plate, a welter handicap to be run at tin- Newmarket Craven meet I ing. tte first racing of the season at English flat il headquarters. The big chestnut two year old colt by Colin — - Acalot, Pel aging to tte Brownleigh Park Stable, has been n lined King Herod. This stable will make e its initial appearance of the year at Jamaica, to ,, which track it will be transferred from Crave-end ■ 1 about April 1. II. Watlerson. who has Runes and the chestnut , three-year-old Nyack, by Uncle — Semblance purchased r" at the Mackay sale, besides ten good two-year-olds, r is expected to join the colony of hor-e-men which will journey to Maryland from tin- New 01 York tracks this spring. The latest additions to John Whalens string at it Gravescnd are the thiee-year old* Peaceful Star and 1 Burglar, which will represent J. T. McDonald. The ie latter two have been turned out at the llogan farm n at AVe.-tbury, I.. I., since late last summer and cl have just been taken up. Refusing to aire up hi rses lost in selling races s is becoming chronic at Juarez. The latest case is is that of R. K. Williamson, Who would not let Bil-likens 1- W. go to •lobe" Ramsey, who was also io the claimant in the Fseeit affair. A man ought to to be willing to go a hug way to get rid of a hone n named BUlikena W. — Francis Nelson in Toronto lo Globe. -
