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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The horses of the Ottawa Stable have arrived at Rowie from New Orleans. Beginning Monday the purse distribution at Hot Springs will amount to .. KM daily. S. M. Henderson. C. Hawk and F. D. Weir are among those who are about to ship to Kentucky from El Pane. Jockey K. Pool has gone to California to report to his contract employer, G. W. Fuller, for the Tijuana meeting. B. A. Jones is on the way from Juarez to Hot Springs with a string of horses that consists mostly of two-year-olds. The Kentucky legislature has adjourned without any action whatever on the anti-betting bill that was introduced in the early days of the session. Trainer C. F. Murray, who won four races at Juarez with Fngr.-ner out of five starts in a fortnight, has left Fl laso for Maryland via Hot Springs. Mose Goktblatt has arrived at his home in Cincinnati from Havana, where he raced a division of the stable of Jefferson Livingston and some horses of his own. Jockey J. Hanover, who can ride at 107 pounds, lias been engaged to ride for the O. A. Cochran stable during the season of 1918. He will report to trainer W. R. Midgley May 1. IT. W. Iloag and A. D. Harrison have shipped their horses from Juarez to Tijuana. M. Doyle. OMeara Bros.. J. S. McRride. Ferguson and Riant and .1. L. Reckham will go to the same track. Fred Taral. who is still in Germany training a big string of horses, has writt n a New York friend that his horses for the coming season are a bettor lot than he ever before trained, and he confidently expects to have his most successful year on the turf. There are thirty-four in the string. Jockev Kerb, an American rider, is with the stable and will do the riding. Taral himself now weighs 1881 pounds, according to his own admission. King Georges representative in Ireland will have an active part in racing this season and has nominated some of his horses in events at the Fairy-house Dublin meeting, opening on Fasti r Monday. Lord Winborne. who succeeded the Marquis : of Aberdeen as viceroy, is an all-around sportsman, keen on polo ami hunting, and an owner of greyhounds. He ran two dogs in the Irish Cup 1 and the Tipperary Cup at recent coursing meetings I at Clounaiina and Kilsheelan. and was there to see • them. His predecessor at Dublin castle, though. had no sporting side whatever. Lord Aberdeen, who also was in the course of his official career • served as governor-general of Canada, was the only occupant of Rideau Hall in more than twenty -five ■ years who lacked sufficient interest in what concerns so many Canadians to visit Woodbine for the • Plate and other racing. — Francis Nelson in Toronto , Globe.
