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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Twenty head of Mrs. L. A. Livingstons horses from llnncocas Farm are due in Hamilton within ten days, to 1m- finished for racing in charge of the veteran trainer. Matt Feabes. James Carruthers of Montreal, owner of Advance Guard and many other good horses, and Hon. Robert Rogers. Canadian minister of public works, Initli on their way to Winniiieg. were among the visitors at Woodbine last Saturday. Most of the Johnson and Billings imported two-year-olds are at present suffering from bucked shins. This stable has some grand appearing English youngsters, of which Bachelors Hope is suplMised to be the star. J. Inieiisetter has concluded to retire the mare Kiva to the stud and has also afcaajt decided to retire the three-year. dd filly Nellie Welles. Both the mares ,-ire at the Waldeek Farm of Thomas M. Murphy and have been thrown out of training. Louis Tauber has had a flattering offer for his good bread winner Chart ier. the tender coming from a breeder who desires to give the son of Hurst lark a trial in the stud. lit blaek horse is unusually well bred on the dams side, coining from a line of good stayers. Mr. Keenes Puss in Hoots fared badly in the One Thousand Guineas. For one thing she got off so poorly as to have no chance. For another she made up no ground ami finished last. The English critirs do not s]M-ak well of her anyhow, it is to tie ho|»d she will show to better advantage in tin-New Oaks. June 1. One of the jockeys riding at the Downs track his received a letter frOM Australia from Jockey Frank Herbert, in whieh that rider stated that he was meeting with good success and exiiected to remain there indefinitely. Ilorliert is the rider who had the mount on Donau when that horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1910. Eugene Lutz. owner of Messenger Roy. winner of the Kentucky Endurance Stakes in 1!10. is at Louisville making an effort to place the stallion in a breeding est.-ildishinent in that section. Messenger Boy is now at William Garths stud in Virginia, and his opportunities :,r. limited as Mr. Garth has two stallions of his own. The four men arrested on the opening day at Jamaica for soliciting beta outside of the race track were charged with disorderly conduct before Magistrate Kochodorfer Friday. They pleaded guilty and paid fines of 0 each. Two more arrests were made Friday. Charges of disorderly conduct will lie made against Morris Morrison. L12 Second eveniie, and Isolds Morrison. 127 Forsyth street, Manhattan. The Juvenile Stakes of ,000. to be run at Belmont Park text Saturday, is the first highly im-jMirtant stake race for two year-olds of the eastern campaign. Included in its seventy nine eligibles are sixteen choicely - bred English colts. Harry Kelly is engaged, but is not likely to be sent east at present. ritimatiim is in it and will meet lietter than he vanquished at Pimlico. The Belmont Park meeting o|iens tomorrow. The racing firm of Middlcton and Jones has secured a contract on the services of Charles Sloan, son of I Frank Sloan, a Lexington turfman. Young Sloan I will make his debut as a rider when the Latonis meeting opens. At Hiatal the youngster is getting in trim by exercising the horses of the Pastime Stable. He is an apprentice. Trainer Dan Lchnn thinks highly of the boys prospects and lielieves he will make a competent jockey. Horsemen who stabled outside the Pimlico track have been notified by the Maryland Jockev Club that their stabling bills during the first meeting would be paid by that body. The stabling accommodations at that track are not large and many horsemen are forced to quarter their horses in the nearby half-mile track. This added expense wns one of the chief complaints of the newly organized horsemens association at a recent meeting.
