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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Johnny Bullman has been engaged to ride King Neptune for Mr. Tyree in that colts Canadian stake engagements. King Georges Friar Marcus won the Crawford Plate at the Newmarket Craven meeting April 11. his victory being received with tumultuous applause. E. Burke has bought in England, for American racing, the goad steeplechasers Berrilldou, Quel Boiihettr. Killanna and Light Arms. All are horses of note and on the flat Berrilldou was good enough to win the Lincolnshire Handicap of 1913. There has ban no increase in the value of the Canadian Derby this year, the Fort Erie event continuing as a ,500 added race, so that the Hamilton Derby, with ,000 added, will be the richest three-year-old race on the Canadian circuit. The experience of their operation at Bowie, where they first came into use. was that the amended selling race rules of the New York Jockey Club afforded no amelioration of the conditions complained of. Havre de Grace is confirming that conviction. Changes are not necessarily improvements, and it is well to go slowly about interfering with tried regulations — Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe. Miss Yiau of Montreal has not had much success I m far with her high-priced purchases, Skeer Face and Achievement, each of which was reported to have cost S1O.000. but they are a pair of good three-year-olds and sure to liccomplish something creditable for their new owner in the course of the season. Either one would be serviceable as a Con-naught Cup horse, and they are eligible for all Can idian-owned races. The possibility of the government burden of taxation on race courses lieing shifted to the horse owners and breeders is the greatest danger in legislation of that kind. The breeding industry needs all the encouragement that can lie offered by the provision of generous stakes and purses, and the reduction of the Dominion Handicap at Fort Erie this year from a ,000 race to a ,000 one is significant of what may hapi en. — Toronto Globe.
