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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Charles F. Hill has gone to Saratoga with the Mackay three-year-olds. The attendance at Fort Erie Tuesday was estimated at upward of 10,000. Trainer F. Kraft lias arranged to ship the Palace Stable horses to Windsor, July 9. Two of Congressman Lofts two-year-olds, Julia-leon and Candy Land, have been fired for minor ailments. Trainer Simon Healy reports that Captain E. B. Cassatts good mare. Flying Fairy, was so badly cut down in the handicap which she won last Thursday that she will be on the shelf for a time. Richard E. Watkins has a stable of four thoroughbreds which he intends shipping from Xew York to Windsor. They are Barnegat and Ninety Simplex, which wintered at Gravesend, and two which he brought up from the south, Hardrun and Norus. A notable visitor at Fort Erie for the opening of the Niagara Racing Associations meeting was James W. Wadsworth, father of the junior United States Senator from New York. Mr. Wadsworth is a valued member of the New York State Racing Commission. Some of the trainers at Belmont Park have been adding two-year-olds to the list of geldings despite the fact that there will be no gelding allowances at tracks under the Jockey Clubs jurisdiction after this season. In Thomas J. Healeys stable there are now the following young geldings: Firing Line, blk. g, by Star Shoot Royal Gun; Navarre, ch. g, by Olambala Lady Navarre; Trintine, ch. g. by Star Shoot May Florence, and Glanaginty imported, b. g, by Desmond Ardent. A. J. .Toyner has gelded one of his purchases from the Duryea sale, Killadar imported, by Irish Lad Ascot Belle. An appreciative reference to the kings gift of the stallion Anmer to Canada is made by the Syriney Referee, but that journal is in error in the statement that "in Canada a war tax for each days racing was substantially increased." The daily license fee, to which this refers, and which has been increased from 00 to ,250, is not a federal tax. It is not and never was a war tax, nor does it go to any fund for the benefit of the horse industry. It is just a burden imposed to meet the special necessities of the Ontario treasury, and has no counterpart in any other province of the Dominion. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
