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NOTES OF THE TURF FROM OTHER LANDS. J. Watkins. the jockey formerly attached to Dodds stables, is now riding in Spain. Should ONeill bo able to do the weight he will ride for the King of Spains stable at the coming meeting at Seville. The Prix du Commerce, of 50.000 francs, for three-year olds and over, will be decided at Milan on Sunday. May 14. The next West Australian Derbv will be worth ,000 instead of ,500 and the Knrrakatta Plate will be worth ,750 instead of ,000. Merry Maliel. 3. by Flotsam— Merry Margot: Sister Susie. 3. by Santry — Loyse; and Bydand. 4. gelding by Polymelus— Gandaretta, have been sent to India. Mr. Arthur Blennerhasset, the well-known Irish racing official, has returned to Ireland after a sojourn in Australia and America, where he was engaged in buying army remounts. Mr. P. F. Ileybourn. who won the Race Course Association Steeplechase at Gatwick with Vermouth, has generously given the value of the stakes, ,750. to the Star and Garter fund for disabled soldiers and sailors. At. Messrs. Sewells repository Dublin. March 23. the German -owned stallion Huon II., by Aril Patrick — Hyercs. by Isonomy, was put up to auction under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act and realized 310 guineas. On the concluding afternoon of the Calcutta winter season the card consisted of a steeplechase and five flat races. Mr. Galstaun had a field day. winning all the five races on the flat with Wing in the saddle, n fine performance on the part of that well-known jockey. St. Wolf, by St. Frusquin out of Wolfs Cry. is doing well at the stud in the Argentine. Two juveniles of his get won races on successive race days last month. One of them, Griuguilln. is out of a daughter of Orbit son of Bend Or, and the other winner, Dandalo, is out of Daisy Gallop, by Melton. Santa Quaranta. by St. Frusquin out of Widgeon, by Gallinule. has recently had her first foal, a chestnut colt by Bachelors Double. She is one of the choicest mares of the Bucklaud Stud, costing her owner 4,500 to purchase from the Southcoiirt Stud, Leighton Buzzard. Santa Quaranta is on a visit to Polymelus. The minister for agriculture of France has decided to allow trench thoroughbreds, under certain conditions, to take part in the coming races at San Sebastian, in Spain, where the meeting commences on July 2 with the Grand Prix, and will continue until Octotier 16. there being forty meetings on the program. The conditions are the same as those imposed on French horses engaged in England and Italy. Mr. J. Reid Walkers horses are now trained by John Rogers, at Stanton. Rogers has lieen connected with the Stanton stables for upwards of thirty-five years. Apprenticed to Mr. Thomas Wad- low, of Sir Hugo and Chippendale fame, he rode in the red sleeves, white body and black cap for Lord Bradford, and he also rode for Lord Shrewsbury. Colonel Fenwick. Colonel Forester, Mr. W. M. G. Singir and Mr. R. P. Hickman, both under Jockey Club and National Hunt Rules. The steamer Zealandia. which arrived in Melbourne from Liverpool in February, had a valuable cargo of thoroughbreds on board. Included was Rullawarra. which was looking well after his sojourn in the old country. In addition to Bulla -vvarra. Vippingale and a filly by Martagon from Celine, by Cyllene. were landed for Mr. Norman Falkiner. Yippingale is a half-sister to Traquair. Neil Gow and Pomander, lieing by William the Third from Chelandry. She is in foal to Junior. Covertcoat. which started an odds-on favorite for the Conyngham Cup at Punchestown April 12. had the misfortune to fall and break his back. The son of Hackler — Cinnamon, which was bred by J. J. Maher. was purchased by the late Sir Chas. Assheton-Smith at the Dublin Horse Show sales in the summer of 1911 for 1.150 guineas. Two years later he won the Grand National at Aintree and on the death of Sir Chas. Assheton-Smith he became the property of Mr. Eric Piatt, whose colors he carried when he met death. It was Diamond Jubilees dislike for Mornington Cannon that gave Herbert Jones his start as a jockey. That some animals will run for some riders and not for others there can be no question, and it would appear that no love is lost between Drinaugh and E. Piggott. Capt. de Traffords horse would not go out of a canter for Piggott at Colwall Park and Windsor. Yet with Reardon at Hawthorn Hill he gave a delightfully smooth display when winning the Egham Steeplechase. It may also have been a case of "horses for courses." as Drinaugh won at the last Hawthorn Hill meeting. Harry Solloway. the well-known trainer, died suddenly on March 13. says "Deutscher Sport." at the age of sixty-five. One of four brothers Frank. Major and Charles being the others, who all left Oxfordshire for Germany about forty years ago. II. Solloway entered the service of Prince Hatzfeldt and soon became a trainer, first at Lippstadt and then at Hoppegarten. He was particularly skillful in patching up and training unsound or infirm horses, and with one such, Illustro, he won the Great Berlin Handicap in 1892. He trained a big winner in Monopol, which secured the Hamburg Grand Prize, but was beaten for the German Derby won by Bono Moilo. "Deutscher Sport" announces the death of a well-known German breeder and owner of race horses. Count Friedrich F. Halm, at the age of fifty -seven. He was a son of the Count Halm who won the Stewards Cup at Goodwood in MM with Tiirnus. This horse was bred at the counts Basedow Svud in Germany, and was by the imported English sire Taurus out of the imported English mare Clarissa, by Defence. With only 91 pounds to carry, Turnns started favorite at 3 to 1 against, and won easily from a big hand, and on the following Friday, carrying 91! pounds inclusive of a seven-pound penalty, lie secured the Chesterfield Cup. The old counts successor, who has just died, bre.l some good winners at Basedow, but eventually sold his stallions, mares and yearlings by auction aliout twelve years ago. — London Sportsman.
