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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TtTRF. Dr. Larrick and Ormesdale have been added to starter Cassidys schooling list at Aqueduct. The Australian jockey, W. Huxley, is reported to have contracted to ride in India for Mr. Goculdas for three years. King George was among the English breeders who sent a mare to The Tetrarch this season. His representative was Marie Eegrave, a daughter of Diamond Jubilee. Louvois, the winner of Mondays steeplechase at Aqueduct, ill Widener colors, is a half-sister to the great Widener jumpers. El Cuchillo and Colingy, both good stake winners for Jospeh E. Widener, being by Electioneer — LOrient. John Hoggins, in talking about the many two-year-olds by Star Shoot in the first race at Aqueduct Monday, remarked: "I broke and trained Star Shoot as a two-year-old and won ,000 with him. He wan the best two-year-old in England, but he turned roarer." At the recent race meetings at Hokatika N. Z., young women took the place of the men as receivers of totalizator investments. So many men haw gone to the front from the West Coast that there was a shortage of suitable employes. Hence the employment of females. The Jay, b. h. ." . by Goldfinch — Clara J., by Watercress, won the Mayville Handicap, one and an eighth miles, at Durban. Africa, on May !. On the same day the Ascot Handicap, three-quarters of a mile, was won by Wise Judge, b. h, 5, by Golden Maxim — Verdict, by Tyrant. The throe American jockeys riding in Germany finished first, second and third at lloppegarten out of sixteen starters, where the Logierhaus Handicap was recently run off. Archibald won the race 011 Ibrr Haniels four-year-old lolymelus filly Cresta. Sumter was second on Pares and Koch third on Hocul-s. English -bred horses had a good inning at the Soiith Australia lackey Club Adelaide meeting, and they also accounted for the two principal races i run at the Adelaide Bacing Club Birthday meeting on Saturday. The City Handicap was easily won by the three-year-old Polybius lolymelus — Beryliuml. and the Spearmint horse Cyklon made a one-horse ■ race of the Parkside Stakes. At the annual meeting of the Durban South 1 Africa! Turf Club last month it was stated that thai body had held twenty-eight days racing and j distributed 74.21." in stakes during the year ending March. IMC The chairman in his address said I that the years revenue from the totalizator was I 23. 515. and that if it were not for the machine il we aid lie impossible for the club to hold so many meetings or be so liberal in its distribution of prize money. A London writer says that the change in alt businesses ;,nd undertakings prophesied to take place after tie war i- nearly sui-- to extend ta racing in 1 England. He points out that foreitmers and Australians, of whom then are now so many in England, say that, apart from the superioiity of horses » and cour-es. racing in England is far and away behind their own. The general complaint from visitors » is that racing in England is expensive and uncomfortable, and the writer quoted is hopeful that later many Australian and continental improvements will t o adopted. Auriga, winner of the thirty-fourth renewal of the Clipsetta Stakes, is a daughter of the noted race horse and sire. Waterboy, and is out of School Mistress, by Hamburg. The dam of Auriga is a half-sister to Barney Schreiber"* famous sire Sain, she being out of The Task, by Barcaldine. This is a wonderfully successful racing family, having its origin in tie dam of the Two True Blues, the No. 3 line of the Bruce Lowe figure system. An riga was bred by the late J. B. Haggin and sold as a yearling at public sale for ,475. Eiifortu-nately for her owner. F. Schaller. she has no other stake engagement during the rest of the I.atonia meeting. T. P. Hayes, who trains Auriga, won this stake with Miuda in 1913.
