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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The King Edward Park track is in good shape and most of the stables racing at Delorimicr Park will be transferred there at the close of the meeting. N. 1J. Sutherland has succeeded Billiard Hill on the half-mile track horsemens committee and will represent them in the starters stand at King Edward Park. An epidemic of coughing has visited the stable of Mrs. L. A. Livingston since arriving in Hamilton. "We have only live borscs out of a string of sixteen fit to race." said trainer Matt Peakes. Genesis, in winning the Canarsie. made a record for the race of 1:00. This is j:ist one second slower than the track record made by James 11. Kecnes Veil in MOB, and tied since by Quartz and Stellariua. Koainers defeat in the Brooklyn Handicap has caused Uundii -upper Vosburgh to treat him a fiit more leniently for the Queens County Handicap next Saturday. lie is still top weight, but with only 129 pounds to carry. Thoroughbred stock is in demand for war purposes. Jules and Abo Carson received an order Tuesday for five thoroughbreds to 1m- us-d as mounts for the officers of the New York Seventh Regiment and the First Field Artillery. Secretary A. It. Loudon of the Hamilton Jockey Club points out that the complaints of discrimination against Canadian employment in the pari-inutiil plant at Hamilton track have beca disproved by a visit of Immigration Inspector Mitchell, who found that then- hail 1« en 110 violation of the law. Pc :crt Gold is accounted one of the greatest — if not the greatest fillies New Zealand has even produced. She has just finished her three-year-old season with an unbeaten record of fourteen firsts and 1,000 won. She is by All Black -Anrarius. l"p to date she lias started twenty -five times, has won twenty races, has been second four times and third once. Though John E. Maddens Star Shoot colt Star-fineh was iN-aten a head in the last race, the Hamburg Place breeder had some satisfaction, as he was licutcn by Burlesque, a daughter of the same sire. Fairy Wand, another Star Shoot filly, finished tout Mi. The Star Shoots were in evidence also in the Canarsie Si llinir Stakes. Throe by that sire started and they ran oat, two, three, each in the colors of different owners. The new Kcuilworth Park track, near Windsor. Out., is 011 an enclosed tract of 138 acres. That l eats iKuul.s Parks spacious enclosure of 131 acres and gies it the primal y. so far as western and Caiiadian tracks are concerned. The track is the usual mile ellipse, with a throo-iiuartors of a mile chute. The grandstand is 4M feet long with 3.3H s.vifs. Two hundred and fifty stalls are completed and more are in process of erection. The stables have from thirty to forty stalls. E. It. Bradley has wired secretary Parmer for fourteei. st ills, saying hie will ship that number of horses to the Windsor Jockey Club Meeting starting July 1.".. Blind Baggage, May Bird, two of Mr. Bradleys tl:ree-ye:ir-olds. are entered in the I . and . Stakes, to 1m- run on the fourth day of the meeting, while his youngsters Believe Me Boys, Bit of a Devil and Bn.omswccp have ben nominated to the K,i. nwobl Stakes, to be decided July 22. J. W. Fuller has asked reservations for nine head, including Tokay, entered in the ,000 Frontier Handicap, the racing feature oil the opening day of the inciting.
