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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The Hamilton Jockey Club will employ only Canadians in its pari-mutuel department. State Senators Montague and Lessen of Virginia were : t Bowie on Saturday, the guests of George T. Miller. The Milltown Stables steeplechasers, Abdon. Amans and Agon are being prepared at Belmont Iark for the races of the United Hunts Association. M. A. Silvers, former jockey and horse owner, who has been racing in South America for several years, has returned to New York and intends to remain there. Samuel J. McGibbon. who was formerly connected in an official capacity with the New California Jockey Club, has been appointed secretary i.nd handicapper of the Tijuana track in Lower California. Price McKinney spent Sunday at Kingston Farm near Lexington, in company with his friend, Richard Johnson, of Baltimore, and left for Cleveland highly phased with the stallions, mares and foals in the Wickliffe Stud. It is expected that James Milton, who is a stockholder, will continue to officiate at the starting barrier at Dorval. William Murray, who is • ! the chief shareholder at Maisonneuve, will likewise continue as starter there. Little String. Stolen Ante. Northern Light. Bash. Zim. Consoler. Alda. Disillusion. Earlymorn. Swarfs Hill. Carl Roberts. Ed Cudihee. Baby Cal and Goldy are among the horses expected to compose the field for the ,000 A. B. Spreckels Resumption Handicap at Tijuana next Saturday. Harry Michaels continues to figure ns the leading jockey in Chili. Jockey Dave Englander is still holding his own in the Argentine Republic, while little Romanelli. a veteran rider in the tropics, is riding well in Uruguay. Monte Michaels is one of the leading riders in Ilio Janeiro. John Bullman, old-time jockey, who is riding at Bowie, has a son, Herbert Bullman. who will take up riding under his fathers instructions. He is galloping horses now, but Bullman has wisely decided that he will learn thoroughly in that hard school before he is put to race riding. Jockey Wiley. wh6 has been riding for a prince of the royal family in Roumania for the last three years, has sailed from New York for Europe. He will go to Bucharest. Roumania. by a somewhat roundabout way. The rider has been visiting at his home in Iowa since December and only decided to return to Roumania upon receiving word from trainer "Boots" Durnell that things were serene in that particular part of Europe. Thomas J. Healey says that he has no notion of going to Maryland or anywhere away from New York with R. T. Wilsons horses this spring. He says the season is at least six weeks backward as compared with last year, and that in his long ex-] erienee he never but once has seen such a backward spring as that of 1916. His horses are all in excellent health, but, while the track is all that could be desired just now. the favorable change in conditions has come too late for any racing before Jamaica. Frank Keegan, track superintendent of the Jockey Club Juarez, who has made his permanent home in Kl Paso for nearly three years past, will leave there for Louisville this week for a conference with Manager Matt J. Winn regarding the plant at Laurel. The Juarez track is now in perfect condition, and Mr. Winn desires to put the Laurel course on the same plane. From Louisville Keegan will go direct to Ijuirel and, later, will probably transfer his family to Maryland to reside until the re-opening of the Mexican course next fall. The Virginia delegation made Rome howl and cut loose the old rebel yell when Bobby Boyer came down in front in the fifth race at Bowie Friday, beating out the warm favorite, Yodeles. Bobby Boyer saw service betweeu the shafts of a wagon this last winter on the Garth farm at Charlottesville, Va., and was later schooled over the jumps. The horse showed so much speed that Lewis Garth determined to give him a trial on the flat before putting him into the cross-country game, so took him to Bowie. It is no secret that Mr. Garth thinks he has the making of a great jumper in the gelding.
