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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Good Counsel tore off both of his front plates in his last race. The report comes from Louisville that Adroit, one of H. P. Whitneys Kentucky Oaks candidates, pulled up lame Monday and will be thrown out of training. W. A. Burttsehell has decided to blister Rustling Brass and turn him out after the Bowie meeting. The horse came out of his recent runaway after his victory extremely lame. James F. OHara. general manager of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, was the guest of iionor at a banquet given at the Hotel Ren-ncrt Tuesday that was largely attended by racing officials and horsemen. Manager Thomas Duggan. of the Mount Royal track, at Montreal, has announced tiiat there will be steeplechasing there this season and that the club woi.hi adopt the policy of Hamilton, Dorval and Ottawa in engaging Canadians as far as possible. The stables of Wallhauser Brothers. H. Tullett. J. W. Murphy. M. Shields. R. B. Allen. Hugh McCarron. .1. EL Adams. N. K. Moody. A. Barry. R. Kelly. E. D. Kaufman. M. Phillips. Daniel Dennis,, ii. L". Morefield and L. Wentworth have arrived at Tijuana from Juarez. Whatever may be the aims or desires of the half-mile track managers in the Montreal district, inquiry enables it to he stated on the liest of authority that the idea of a provincial racing commission for the control of the sport in Quehec has never even Ix-cn considered by the government, says a dispatch to the Toronto Globe from Montreal. The first of the Kings Plate candidates to arrive at Woodbine from outside points is John Peel, which came from Hamilton in charge of Bert McDonald, lie is a son of Martimas and The Lintie. ami was bred at the Valley Farm. He was raced by Sir John Hcndrie and was a winner at two years old. but unsuccessful in his three-year-old career, which leaves him eligible for the Kings guineas. He is now owned by G. Mclntyre of Hamilton. Says A. B. George in his gossip of British sports: "It is undoubtedly true that the late King Edward owed much of his great popularity to the fact that he was a fine sportsman. The anti-sports have obtained more than their proper proportion of power in late years, but at heart the rank and file of Englishmen are sportsmen, and the knowledge that our late king supported yachting anil horse racing added to his popularity. It can also be truly stated that the fact of King George being one of the best shots with the gun in Europe is of much worth. Not only does it give the lie to a silly assertion unmet hues heard, but it also pleases the average man to think of the king as an exiM-rt shot." Race followers will hardly know the Hamilton Jockey Club plant when the meeting opens there in June. Where the bookmakers once stood the •"iron men" have been installed ready to do business. There are forty machines and plenty of room in the aisles. The new shed extends from the grandstand to some yards below where the old betting shed stood, and patrons can go from the stand to the ring without Mag exposed to the weather. A. P. Humphrey. Jr.. of Cpperville. Va.. a well-known gentleman rider and an ardent supporter of the hunt meetings, recently made an addition to his stable, purchasing Little Ford, a two-year-old by Rey Hindoo — Dod Anderson. His idea is to race the filly on the flat this year, then to start her education as a juni| er. or as he puts it: "I want something worth while to try and win the Harbor Hill of 1917." The price paid for the lilly is said to have been ,000. Oscar Lewisohn has changed his plans as to u sale of his racing stable, which he had provided for. when he found that he would lie coni|Hlled by business interests to spend the summer abroad. He has now arranged to have the horses raced for him during his absence. Several junipers are included in the string, and one of them, Hess, all English -bred mare, has been schooling in a fashion that has brought predictions of great things to come. She. with the others of the stable, will be raced at the hunt meetings.
