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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. J. E. Davis is reported to have paid ,500 for Brooks. Roamer is training in a highly satisfactory fashion for the Brooklyn Handicap. Charles P. Taft entertained a party of guests in the Latonia clubhouse on Derby day. Plans for the fall meeting at Essex Park. Hot Springs. November 30 to December 23, are going forward. Racing in Ireland, which was stopped owing to the Sinn Fein rebellion, will be resumed throughout the Emerald Isle July 1. The seventeen French -bred yearlings belonging to Mrs. H. B. Duryea. which have been at the Haggin barn at Sheepshead Bay, have been shipped to Saratoga. F. K. Sturgis. vice-chairman of the Jockey Club, has presented to August Belmont a fine iiortrait of Rock Sand, which will be hung in the board room of the Jockey Club, New York. James 1. Edwards of Louisville, Ky., has recently purchased Lady Trebla, br. m. by Albert — Lady Iongstreet II.. by Longfellow. She has been mated witli Thomas M. Murphys Voter stallion. Boots and Saddle. Mrs. Nettie Arlington, who is getting together a racing stable to be trained by former jockey Ed Carrison. has registered her racing colors. They are white with blue swastikas, blue sleeves anil red cap. The substitute for the famous City and Suburban, the Suburban Handicap of ,000. was run Saturday at Lingfield and won by Lord Carnarvons Julian, ridden by Smyth. .7. Buchanans Gay Lally. with Fox in the saddle, was second, and Achtoi, owned by Mortimer Singer, third, with Trigg up. Fifteen entries were received for this important handicap, and only eleven horses went to the post. The betting was: Julian 4 to 1, Gay Lally 7 to 4. and Achtoi 8 to 1. The volume of betting at Latonia Saturday went far above that of last year, despite the handicaps. A total of 8 ;,000 was bet. which is considerably under the amount for Derby day at Louisville. On one race no show betting was to be had. and in another race 5.000 persons were huddled in the grandstand and clubhouse unable to get to the betting ring on account of the downpour. In the bet-tin:. ring it became so congested at times that it was impossible to get to the machines. At that the letting was nearly 5,000 in excess of that of Derby day of 1915. About 1916.sh1,000 was wagared on the Derby this year, as against 9,000 last year. The Sims Anti-betting bill received another setback in the House of Representatives at Washington on Friday last when objection to calling it up on the calendar was made by Republican Leader Mann. The hill can come up only through a call of the committees, and Chairman Adamson. of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee, which reported the bill, is represented as being unfavorable to it. Consideration of the bill was blacked earlier in the week bv Rcpivs. ntative Arthur B. Rouse of Covington. Ky. It is fost red by the Mens Federation of Louisville, and seeks to prevent interstate transmission of betting information cm horseraces. Dodge, winner of the Latonia Derby, is a bay colt by Jim C.iffncy Flora WiHoiighby, and was bred by W. F. Sehulte at his farm, near Louisville. Ky. As a yearling he- was purchas.-d by I.on Jones, togc |her with two other yearlings, for . 500. Jones, a few months later, sold the three colts to J. S. Ward for $;.000. William II. Shelley, clerk of the- scales ;it Latonia. purchased the colts from Behsdte for Jones. Dodge ran fourth in the Kentucky Derby, batt pear the eatl started seventeen times and won ten races, was second four times and once- third and won 1,355. J. S. Ward, part owner and trainer of Dodge, is a I,oiiisville man and has lately purchased a lK-autiful lionu- in the city. He has Im-cii training horses for more than a score of years and was alwavs ranked as one of the l est western trainers. His partner. Mr. A. Weber, is a wealthy butcher in Kansas City. Frank Murphy, the jockey who rode Dodge to victory Saturday, was developed as a jockey by Thomas J. Brown, lb la a product of Cincinnati. Murphy has lee-en riding for four years.
