Current Notes of the Turf, Daily Racing Form, 1916-03-26

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1 : CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The stables f W. A. McKinnoy. Dr. I. E. Clark. C. Hawk and T. Eggers have left Juarez for Churchill Downs. Starter James Milton has arrived at Baltimore from Havana with others who took part in the recent Cuban meeting. J. L. Hall, paddock and patrol judge at Juarez, and Al Ptirlen. entry clerk at the Mexican course, have arrived at New York. John Hachmeister. manager of the Latonia and Douglas Park tracks, has returned to Kentucky from his annual winter trip to Naples. Fla. The New Zealand rule requiring at least one race of not less than a mile and a quarter each day of every meeting In the Dominion has brought out larger fields than anticipated. Any Port. Albert White, Judge Gary and Rye Straw hare been transferred to the ranch of Volney P. Leonard in Otero county. New Mexico. Mr. Leonard is going in for breeding. Notwithstanding that the stallion Bants! had a full list iu England last year at a fee of -±m guineas, he is doing duty this year at !».! pounds. The fees of s -ej-al Other staUions have been correspondingly reduced. Bhogun, with whom trainer Wootton once expected to will a Derby for Mr. E. Hnlton, has been dropped from 19 guineas to i guineas. The Maryland Jockey Tub has opened for entries tin- SI. 500 added Preakness Handicap for three- year-old-, one mile and an eighth, to be run during the forthcoming spring meeting at Pimlico. Other stakes to be run at Pimlico this spring include the Pimlico Nursery. Si. 000 added, for 1 wo-J ear-Olds, and the Crickmore Steeplechase Handicap, ,008 added. Gwyn Tompkins, writing from his Glenburnie farm, at Warreatoa .Ya.. says that he will begin racing at Pimlico this season. He will ship eleven horses from the farm April In. and while it is early to boast he s:i. s lie ha- soiu ■ fairly good ones in the string. It has been Mr. Tompkins custom of lite to race a string over the Canadian circuit. but this year he contemplates a New York campaign and to thai end has made several nominations iu tin; Belmont Park steeplechases that have already


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