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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. II lid has -,,ne , ut that there i- to !„• no racing in Prance, "so long as the Germans are at Noyon." There is a letter at the Buffalo office of Daily Racing Form for Claude Stevens, whose address is unknown. lackey* who will M from Juarez to Tijuana include J. Melntyre. W. Ormes. G. Mob-worth. It. Pauley. T. Buckles. |. Feeney and E. Smith. Bernard Tonicity is an Irish steeplechase rider Who is to be seen through the field during the coming season in the east. He is under the chapcronage of Patrick PtCgaa. Tin- stables ,,f j. ,- Perrms, H. W. Rang, E. J. Ramsey, F. Wallbanser, .1. McCarthy. M. DeyV, S. Veiller and .1. L. Beckham will shortly be shipped to Tijuana from Juarez. Henry W. Bull. Harry Iayne Whitney and L. S. Thompson have returned to ew fork from an tended cruise on Mr. Whitneys yacht. Whilenway, which included a visit to Havana. Two more foal- have arrived at Die Thorneliffe Farm of Robert Davies near Toronto One is a chestnut filly bj I-ir-t Bight Fair Annie, and the other a bay filly by Fir-t Bight — Handle, by Hanover. Andy Schuttinger. who lode at Havana, i- back in New York. He will report at Bowie for the opening of the Maryland season and will ride for John Cowers. Bchnttlnger is able to ride at close to loo pounds. L. Becker. C. N. Freeman and J. Tlgue have left El Paso for Bowie. Included in the Becker lot were Brighouse, BteUurina, Cnrandolrt, Striker and La Bete Noir. Jockey W. Sohamerhorn went a Ions with the Freeman stable. Joseph E. Davis, who has just returned to New-York from his visit to Aiken, s. c., entirely recovered from his recent illness, has a considerable Stable for what is to be offered in the east, and has hopes of winning the Harbor Hill three times in row. having won it in 1914 with Singlestick and in lillo with Vifir. A member of the Massachusetts legislature has been expelled for collecting money from persons interested in threatened legislation. If it were a universal custom to so deal With the "black horse cavalry" much of the anti-racing legislation that now ornaments the statute I ks of various slates would never have been formulated — Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe. Jockeys Tommy and Johnny McTaggart are in New York. The latter came on for a visit home from New Orleans, while Tom was summoned on account of the severe illness of his father. The elder McTaggart is not as seriously ill as was feared, and Tommy will shortly return to Louisville, while Johnny will remain in New York until shortly before the opening of the Bowie Bteetiag. as racing is to go on as usual at Newmarket. England, the original entries for the Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas, made two years ago, stand cood. Substitutes will be provided for the Derby. Oaks and St. Leger, which are Epsom and Doiuaster fixtures, and both of these courses are in military occupation. For the cancelled Epsom Derby there were the huge number of 433 nominations, for the Oaks :17, and for the Poncaster St. Leger 122.
