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. CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. It is not until next Monday night that the Maryland legislature will adjourn. . IT. Shillings application for a jockeys license has not jet been acted upon by the license committee of the Jockey Chilis stewards. Hugh MeCarren plans CM disposing of Willis. Jacob lhiim and Andrew Johnson before transferring his stable from Juarez to Tijuana. Koamer is now a more impressive looking horse than ever. Compact in outline, having a long barrel which is an almost perfect cylinder and quarters which have a wealth of muscle and would be .nk plate for a draught horse, lie fills the eye completely. It is report-d that the stable of Mr. Charles Millar, which is short of two year-olds, is to be strengthened by the acquisition of the crop of a Canadian breeder- not Mrs. Livingston which will furnish something for this year, and possibly enable him next year to score his second count as Kings Plate winner. Andy Blnkclcy expects to will frequently at Howie with his two-year-olds Rhymer. Running Shot. Captain Fredericks. Good Gracious and K.i-linka. Having beet trained at New Orleans, they are fit and ready to race and in the matter of condition will leave an advantage over their northern competitors. C. H. Iet t inuill. who has beet re appointed a placing judge for the tracks of the Joe -key Club, has written a New York friend that the racing will be reasoned at Tijaaaa in Lower California April 12. and that he would fill his office there until it was time for him to report at Jamaica May IS. Judge Joseph A. Murphy is decidedly in favor of an Interpretation of tin- telling raeo rules that would permit of the winner as wcdl as any other bene in the field being claimed. He- would go even further and make- the claiming open to all reputable turfmen, irrespect ive of whether or not they start a bone la the- same race. He- is ,f the opii iceu that the winner ahonM be elahned for his entered price pins the first money, for the reason that after the- race has been won it is a rioted in cident and the winner thonld surely coat as much as ai.y bone that finished behind him. The French racing publication. I.e Croni jue du Turf. Hlfgh it contains a« aetnel racing news. K of Interest, since it reproduces all the ministerial documents which have- originated through the war. Added to this list is one- enumerating all the horses and mares which have been purchase el or reqaiai tioned by the Remount and Still inniission. as well as a report from the latter showing the elifi cieney in financial retonrcet inflicted on the horse department of the Ministry of Agriculture- through the enforced absence of the subsidy front the inn -tuels and the- absence of racing. Close- on 00,000 is required to balance the accounts of the remount departme at. In a letter to a friend here-. George Strate. trainer of George V.. Y.ing fields string of thoroughbreds in the cast, imparts the- information that Skeer Pace, the- crack three-year old. is going to be shipped to Prance in the fall. It was re ported at the time Wingfield accepted an offer of Ss.000 for the well bred Hippodrome — Fleeing Venus colt that a Now Yorker v. as the purchaser. Now Strate states that Mrs. Yuen of Paris secured Skeer Face through an agent. The colt will lee- taken to Ne-w York to race and will probably start iu the Kentucky Derby. Then he will be shipped t.i Paris, and it is Mrs. Yuens Intention to Convert Ske-er Fae-e into a jumper. He- is a big, strapping colt, and showed his ;1bility to hurdle- at New Orleans by jumping the fence one day.— San Francisco Chronicle.
