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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Howard Oots has requested reservation for his big stable at Dorval. A shipment of the Thomas Hitchcock horses has reached Relmont Iark in the care of John Lambert. At Pimlico last Saturday, the total of money pass d through the mutuel machines was slightly in excess of 45, 000. F. E. Rose has sold the sprinter Sand Marsh to M. S. Hoffman, a New York lawyer. He will be trained by R. O. Miller. C. T. Henshall end Arthur E. Clarke are the concessionaries for the new half-mile track, hippodrome and amusement park at Havana. W. R. Norvell of Chicago, is racing secretary of the meetings to follow Iimlico at the Gentlemens Driving Park and Marlboro. He may also officiate at Prospect Iark. The Prussian governments studs total nineteen, with 124 thoroughbred stallions doing stud duty. Anion.; the stallions at Graditl are Galt-e More, Ant Patrick and Dark Ronald, and those at Reber-beck include the Hyndney Cup winner Cadonia. August Delmonts good mare Mission has been shipped to Rrookdale Farm to go to the court of Rroom tiek. This is a complimentary service tendered the chairman of the Jockey Club by Mr. Whitney, and such a mating should produce a high-cl;:ss foal. In Calcutta during the recently-concluded season a couple of new time records for India were made. P.ai li -lors Wedding winning at a mile in 1:39%, and Kiltoi at a mile and three-quarters in 3:001-... At three quarters the liest of the season was Pastimes 1:13--.. and at a mile and a quarter Second Editions 2:07. Molera and Josephs well-known mare. Rubbling Water, by Colonel Wheeler Shasta Water, died at San Jose, Cal.. recently. She had Iieen bred to Von Tronip. She was one of the best race mares ever bred in California and raced with great success over San Francisco tracks when racing was at its best there. Tiie Dorval steeplechase course is fast Hearing completion under the personal supervision of Manager K. N. Holman. and cross-country experts who have visited the track claim that, when completed, it will be one of the safest and fastest in the Dominion. The patrons of thoroughbred sport in Montreal have always evinced a great interest in the cross-country race* at the Rlue Ronnets track, and with a jumping race on the Dorval program daily, the management expects liberal nominations. The total â– Matter of fiat-racing fixtures granted in England this season is sixty-five. In 1913 the number was Ml, while last year the total was ninety six days, of which sixty -one were before the general stoppage, and Unity one after. English owners are hopeful of arrangements being made for additional fixtures. !n inissia and Pavaria eighty two days are announced, but several of these are confined to jumping. There are also meetings to be held at Hanover and one or two other places in Wurtemberg. The German Derby is to be run at Hamburg Horn on June 25.
