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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. E. U. Bradley has arrived at his Idle Hour Farm at Lexington from Palm Beach for a brief visit. Swoon, an English-bred gray colt in P. T. Chinns string, is attracting much attention at Lexington and is pronounced a probable crack. In the Court of Appeals their lordships decided that William Huxley, the jockey and a minor, earning 0,000 a year, was liable to pay income tax. — Loudon Daily Mirror. Jockey W. Aleln.yro. who has been living on a ranch in Idaho for a considerable time, is planning to resume riding at Tijuana when racing begins at that Mexican track this month. The management of the Bowie track is contemplating starting the races earlier. With seven events on tiie card a start at 2:30 brings the finish too late for the comfort of patrons. The Rockaway Hunting Club will inaugurate the amateur racing season with a one-day meeting at Hewlett Day Park, Long Island, on Saturday. April 29, the program book for which has just been issued. The customary events are offered, with three races on the flat, two over the brush course and one over posts and rails. T. Hales rode eight Australian Cup winners, but in the past twenty -five years C. Cooper has been the only jockey to record two wins. He scored on Realm in 1907 and on The Parisian in 1911. Last years winner. I.empriere, was ridden by A. Calli-nan. who also narrowly missed the Melbourne Cup on Westeourt. It is quite likely that a steeplechase course will be laid out at I.owie in time for the fall meeting. The infield is being prepared for it now. Crosscountry events appeal peculiarly to Maryland racegoers, and with so much good jumping talent in sight there will be no difficulty in filling programs as attractive as those at Pimlico. Entry blanks have been issued for the Elkridge Hunt Cup. a four-mile point-to-point race, which will be run over the Elkridge hunting country, in Baltimore County Maryland, on Saturday. May 0. It is the third running of this event, for which two cup prizes are offered: one to the owner and one to the rider of the winner. Entries will close with H. Granger Jaither. Baltimore. April 26. Richard Watkins will probably have a racing string on the Maryland circuit, but the two horses whieh be has at Gravesend — Rarncgat and Ninety Simplex- will Ik- kept there, for the present, at least. The same may be said of three horses which A. L. Aste now has at Oravesend. although it is not unlikely that he may have a string nn-ing elsewhere before the opening of the metropolitan circuit. The first Toronto-trained horses to go abroad with racing intent this season, and probably the only ones until i:fter Woodbine, will be Hearts of Oak and Jim O.. which Willie Wilson shipped today to Maryland. They will go to Havre de Grace, which meeting follows Bowie, the latter having no steeplechase courses. Both are in fine order, and Hearts of Oak. active as a cat anil bold as a lion, should prove a real champion through the field. I dont know when a horse of his quality was las put to steeplerhasing in this countr .- -Francis Nelson in Toronto i;lol e. Edward Moorhouse. one of the directors of The British Woodstock Agency, of Kngland. will leave London shortly for a visit to tiie United States. The main object of his trip is a tour of Kentucky, particularly with a view to visiting some of the leading American breeding establishments. After . spending a few days in New York, Mr. Moorhouse I will proceed to Kentucky. While there he will be 1 1 t 1 1 I ; 1 ! ! ■ 1 . 1 , . . • the guest of A. B. Hancock, of Paris. Ky.. and every opportunity will be afforded him to visit the many establishments which have made Kentiuky famous wherever the thoroughbred horse is known. F. Herbert, who recently arrived from England, where he rode for several seasons, won at his third attempt in Australia, being on OMaaaafe when that inbre pulled off the Welter 1lute at M001.ee Valley Melbourne on Wednesday last. Herbert, who rides very short, took M chances when he got Greenock to the front at the turn, keeping her going to the end. Perhaps it was as well he did. seeing that lnishi got within half a length of her at the finish. Before long we may liav ini] orted jockeys as well as imported horses making their mark in connection with important Australian races. — -Pilot in Sydney Referee. The Herbert referred to is probably the Canadian jockey of that name, who rode successfully in this country some years ago and afterwards went to England.
