view raw text
CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. With Havana closing on Sunday, the winter racing season will be definitely at an end. N. hfacfarlanea Lady Irish has a foal bv Mala-mont at the Montreal farm of Bancroft and Inglis. James Coffroth has given out the information that not lens than 225 of the Juarez horsed are headed for Tijuana. The regulations of the tax on bookmakers in New South Wales require1 the issuing of a stamped ticket with every wager, whether cash or "marker." The Kentucky Derby entry Lube Iski is Dr. W. G. King-Dodds colt, by Ferole--English Esther, about which the sensational stories came from Saratoga last summer. The omission of blinkers from Father Rileys equipment in his last race b.v an oversight is held partially responsible for his failure to run as well as expected on that occasion. Bloom, an English broodmare imported by Grant Hugh Browne, died suddenly Wednesday at the Brownleigh lark Farm at Uoshen. N. Y. Homer Selby. who made many of the foreign purchases for Mr. Drown, is contemplating another buying trip abroad. "Dill" Carroll, for velars trainer for A. D. Spreckles. has arrived at San Diego to take part in 1iii renewed Tijuana meeting. He had in charge tin- three-year-olds Sangatte and Mena. the latter of which is a siste-r to Dr. Leggo of Burns Handicap fame. It is announced that during the spring meeting at Belmont Park there will be an adequate tryout of the proposed change in sidling races. That is, race conditions will lie framesl without the auction clause, whereby the winner will be liable to claim, the- same as any of the Other starters.
