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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Stout Heart showed soreness in his last race at Hot Springs. II. Perkins has bought Bob Hensley from E. B. Elkins. S. C. Hildreth has hopes of having some of the Belmont horses ready for the opening of the New-York racing season at Jamaica next month. J. B. Campbell, presiding judge and racing secretary of the Hot Springs meeting, will visit friends at Batesville, Ark., before proceeding to Kentucky. Ivory Black, a black colt by Star Shoot — Ivory Bells, is accounted the star of the juveniles in James Butlers stable at the Empire City track. He is a half-brother to Old Rosebud. The Belmont Park track is now in excellent condition for working over, but most of the trainers located the re will make no attempt to get ready for Marylanel racing on account of the backward condition of their horses. Ten fine foals have arrived at the Thorncliffe Farm of the late- Robert Davies, near Toronto, this spring, by First Sight. Nealon and Orme Shore. They are the best -looking lot of juveniles bred at Thornclilte in many years. Secretary Eelwards. of the Jamaica track, announced that the purses will be raised next summer and one free selling race programmed each day. This means all races where a entrance fee is eliarg-.l will have a value of 00, 1916.sh00 or 00. The free entrance race will have a value of 00 anel will be framed for the lower grade of selling platers. On the op "iiing day of the Jamaica meeting there will be an increase of ,200 over the initial day of last year. This liberality will continue throughout the meeting, and there will be more than a ,000 increase over last years purse distribution.
