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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The time of race 26904 was 1:41%. instead of 1:41%, as previously printed. Rhine Maiden carried 105 pounds in race 26902. Frank Regan discovered, upon Fuzzy Wuzzys return to the stable from Tuesdays race, that he had beset jumped on from behind and badly cut down. Regan does not expert to get the gelding back to the races for several weeks. The attendance at Blue Bonnets during the meeting just closed was up to the high standard set during the season of IMS, while the volume of speculation in the niutuels was far in advance of a year ago, tu- daily average being about 20,000. John E. Madden sold three-two-year-olds at Belmont Park AVednesday. To R. L. Bresler he sold the bay filly Sky, by Ogden Stars, for ,750. To Ernest Dietas he sold the bay filly Hessie, by Hessian — Bassett. and the bay filly Hickory Nut, by Hessian — Lychee Nut. Many horsemen are of the opinion that Capt. M. Ross Gooderhams Captain B. is a colt that will seriously threaten the supremacy of the Waterloo youngsters in Canadian-bred races for the remainder of t be season. This is another case of the stone rejected by the builders that constitutes so much of the romance ai d history of the turf. He was bred by Captain Gooderhani at his place on the Lake Shore road near Toronto, from a mare that had not been highly valued, and is by a sire that was reduced to the list of geldings alter a single season in the stud. Captain B. was reckoned the least important of nine youngsters in the Giddings stable, where he is trained, but he is much the best by performance so far. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
