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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TUBF. Jockey W. Schamerhorn rode Golden Bantam at Bowie Wednesday and T. Hayes had the mount on Piquette the same day. In New Zealand up to the beginning of March J. OShea had ridden forty-one winners and B. Deeley forty. That good stayer Son-in-Law goes to the stud next year, but before his retirement Sir A lie Bailey is rather hopeful he will beat Pommern in the Ascot Cup or any substitute for it. If the Metropolitan Racing Associations charter is not transferred to the new track at Windsor, the usual two meetings of seven days each will be held at Dufferin Park, Toronto. The first meeting will be conducted early in August. A number of trainers at the Long Island tracks have requested the race committee of the Rockaway Hunting Club to add to the program announced for April 29 and May 6 a race for two-year-olds for each of the two days of the meeting. Armament and Yodeling. which will carry the colors of Henry J. Morris this season, will probably make their debut at Pimlico. The former wintered at Boyce. Va., at the farm of Capt. P. M. Walker, and Yodeling at Gravesend, under the cure of James Fitzsimmons. At Rosehill on Saturday the stipendiary stewards censured J. Wilson, who had the mount on Ruinall in the Clyde Stakes, for not riding that horse out. The stewards insist on jockeys showing their mounts are tieaten before ceasing to ride them vigorously. — Sydney Referee of March 15. Secretary Walter Edwards of the Metropolitan Jockey Club visited the Jamaica track Wednesday and carefully looked over the racing plant. He says I hat the harrows are getting the track into good condition rapidly and that the place will be in first-class condition long before the date set for the opening of the spring meeting on May 18. F. Bullock has left Melbourne for England. Bul-lack did well in England last season, winning thirty-six of the ii«»l races in which he figured, and he will have excellent opportunities of distinguishing himself again this year, as among the owners for whom he will ride is Mr. J. B. Joel. The latters trainer this season will tie R. Day. with whom Bullock was associated at Hal Graditz Stud in Germany. The Duryea horses are quartered in the Haggin barn in Neck Road near the old Sheepshead Bay race track. While all the colts and fillies are greatly admired, the three-year-old chestnut colt Crimper appears to be the favorite. The horses are looking well aft--r their long journey from France. Some of the yearlings are still a trifle low in flesh, but they are all healthy and sprightly looking, and a few iays of liberal feeding will put them in good condition for the sales ring. Australian horses now racing in India are comparatively few. and their numbers are likely to further decrease. At the Calcutta meeting on February 5 only five of the thirty-nine runners hailed from Australia, and at the meeting on February 12 only three of thirty-four. India is no longer a market for Australian horses, this in a measure probably tiding due to the fact that of recent years several high-priced purchases never struck anything near their liest form after arrival in India, and in consequence were dowi ed by hordes bought cheaplj in England. The Hamilton Spectator is piling up the new race courses, and sees them, not only at Windsor, but also at Hamilton and Fort Erie. It will require a little change in the law or the building of a city of fifteen thousand population on the Canadian side of the river to establish the latter, since no tracks can lie built except within three miles of such a center. The charter of the Northern Driving Club, whatever that may be, is to be the authority for the new-Windsor track, says the Spectator, which adds that it will Ik- a bookmakers coarse, with no mutuels. Many a new race course has been projected in Ontario in the last six years, but only the Toronto Driving Clubs Hillorest track has ever come into being in that lime. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe. John Redfenrn. owner, trainer and breeder, died at ;len Huntley, near Melbourne. Australia, last month at the age of seventy -nine. Mr. Redfoarn first trained for Mr. R. Cliirnside. winning some good Jumping races for him. In Melbourne the first horse of note owned by Mr. Redfearn was The Plunger, which won several races, the one of most note being the Australian Jockey Club Plate at Randwiek. With Malvolio he won the first 0,000 i Melbourne Cup. and the Newmarket with Maliima. both of which he owned: while lie trained Churchill for his Newmarket, and Rufus when, as a rank outsider, he won the Victoria Derby of 1S84. Tarcoola won Mr. Redfearn the Williamstown Cup, and among the well-known race horses bred by the deceased were Malvolio, Woorak, Chesney. Renvolio and Vanity Fair.
