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CURRENT NOTES OF THE. TURF. Lieut. John P. Teahaa, of the Sherwood Patenters, reported wounded and in the hospital in Frame, h ills from Windsor, Out., and is a brother of jockey Fred Teahaa. Henry Shields and his employer. A. K. Burke. have gone to England to buy some junipers or thoroughbreds that may be converted into good crosscountry horses. "Lncle Jimmie" Gray thinks he has several good two year olds among the lot with which he has ar rived at Hot Springs, but he has had only a limited opportunity to try them out so far. .1. C. Bell, a New York student of racing matters, has figured out that a investment on every win ning horse during the recent Havana meeting at the high odds quoted by the bookmakers would have netted 6129,435.00, while the mutiiel prices would hare yielded . H3. Among the jumpers at Benning being made ready for the Maryland season is Herbert I,. Pratts Ras-zano. He is being fitted by William M. Carter, who years back trained the hoises of Thomas Ryans Oakridge Stable. On the flat Razzano was a good racer. Mayor J. K. T. Bowden of Jacksonville. Fla.. ap predating the benefit that racing brought to New Orleans and Hot Springs this winter in the way of attracting visitors, is urging some of the sabstaa tial business men of Jacksonville to initiate a movement for the revival of racing there. Robert J. Walden has decided that he will peat-pone shipping his string to Kentucky until after the dose of the Pimlico meeting in May. It was his intention to run his horses over the Kentucky tracks, but his plan has been changed until later in the season, and none of them will be shipped until after the close at Pimlico. There are a number of horsi s due to arrive shortly on the Minnehaha of the Atlantic Transport Line. It is expected that the long -looked -for band bred by "the late H. It. Duryea in France will be in the shipment, while it is possible that among others will be a considerable string that an- being sent over by Mr. Bastart to be raced in this country. Edward Tribe has been appointed to do the starting at the coming Tijuana meeting. He is said to be efficient and received his tuition from A. B. Dade. George Schilling, the official caller of the Tijuana track, who has observed starts by both Tribe and Morrisaey, says that the work of the two can hardly be separated. There is a slight difference though in the methods employed by the men. Trib ■ uses a strictly standing start. Morrisaey would never hesitate in sending a moving field away. At Mondays meeting of the Kentucky State Racing Commission the following resolution was offend: "Our effort to popularise longer distance racing with the owners and trainers will succeed or fail upon the one point of more added money, increasing in proportion to the distance run. In order to meet this situation, we think the pending motion to raise the purses from 1916.sh00 to .ssiMi should be modified, or a substitute offered, leaving Lie purses as they are and the difference between 1916.sh00 and 00 to go to the races of a mile and upward, a certain cumulative amount being added for each additional sixteenth of a mile." How are we to reconcile the teachings that we must look to England for horses that can stay, and that early two -year -old racing is destructive of stamina, witli the entry of fifty-two in one and seventy-four in another juvenile event at Gatwlck Park and Lingfield. to be run the last week of this month and the first week of next.? It is not to li.- explained by the "needy owners" theory. Mr. Leopold de Rothschild. Lord Roseliery. Mr, James Buchanan, the great distiller: Sir Roliert Jaxdine. head of one of the great houses of the Oriental trade: Lord Jersey, and Lord Savile are among the nominators. They may have their troubles, but I dont believe these Include any feed-bill worries. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
