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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Watercress II. and Celandria have been transferred to Jamaica. Jockey J. Dreycr has signed a contract to ride for W. T. Andersons stable. Roamer is being pointed for the Rrooklyn Handicap, to be run at Aqueduct June 24. Samuel Ross is reported to have refused an offer of 5,000 for Ultimatum from A. K. Macomber. W. R. Coes Mustard will not go to Kentucky for the Latonia Derby, but may Ik- sent west to run in the American Derby at Chicago. The thoroughbred Iron Grey was recently imported from England for the Nordix Club, of Warrenton. Va.. ami will l e used to sire horses for crosscountry riding. Iron Grey is 10.1 hands and a horse of powerful build. The horses lielonging to Harry Payne Whitney and trained by Albert Simons will remain in Louisville until next Monday. They then will be shipped to the Hamilton track. Jockey Paul lewder will go with the stable to the Canadian circuit. W. P. Rurih contemplates leaving for Saratoga soon with his own horses, as well as those of Samuel Ross and Mr. A. S. Cosdens valuable pair. CrimiMT and The Belgian. This last mentioned two-year-old from Mr. Duryeas sale has been working impressively of late. Frank Taylor has received two two-year-old fillies from Willis Sharpe Kilmers Binghamton farm. Both were imyprted from England late last winter and lioth are sTout and compact bays. War Doll is a daughter of Sir Geoffrey and Sunday School is by Sunflower — School Book. James Rowe has said that the Whitney Stable would be represented in some of the stakes at Empire City, although he did not exjx-ct to go there himself, as he would be apt to go to Saratoga about the middle of July and remain there for the meeting at the Springs. Alliert Simons will take a string of the Whitney horses to Canada. Trainer Rowe reports that the yearlings by Whiskbroom II. now at Brookdale are a promising bond. There are but a few of them, but they are of good size and excellent conformation and should be a credit to their illustrious sire. Whiskbroom himself now is a splendid looking horse. He has thickened since last Fall and is said to be a grand looking sire. The veteran trainer. James II. MeCreery, saw the race for the Belmont Stakes Saturday. He saw the first Belmont won in 1807 at Jerome Park by Ruthless, and has seen nearly every race for it since that time. Ruthless was owned by Hunter and hum and trained by John Minor. Mr. MeCreery presented to Mr. Belmont a portrait of Minor taken at that time. The far west is doing its share in adding to our stock of thoroughbred foals. In California there is a noticeable- revival of interest in breeding. Edward Cebrian al ne will have twenty to thirty foals at his San Jose establishment, and the Napa Stock Farm, John Rosseter and others are operating on a large scale. George V. Wingfield will have thirty to forty at his Nevada Stock Farm. Thus far. but two two-year-olds bought at the Newmarket England sales and brought to this country have won on this side of the Atlantic, and ImiUi of them were bought by A. J. Joyner and suld by him in this country. One of these was the colt Jack Mount, which won for Mr. Coe. to whom Joyner sold him. and the other was Aristobulus by Roi lierode — Elien Graeme, which he sold to Howard Dots. The question has been raised at Montreal as to the eligibility eel the horses owned by Wilfrid Viau to race in events for horses owned in Canada by a Canadian residing in Canada, such as the conditions of the C iiriaught Cup which was won by Mr. Yiaus Achievement. Mr. Viau, although he does not reside in Montreal the year round, is a beneficiary from tl.e Viau estate, which entitles him to vote in Montreal, anil also makes his horses eligible for events, for Canadian-owned horses. A ruling will be handed down shortly.
