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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. About 0,000 passetl through the pari-mutuel machines at Reno on July -1. Harry . Payne Whitneys stable has been shipped to Saratoga. Trainer James Rowe accompanied them. Thomas M. McCrcery has shipped Racebrook, Fattuata, King Simon and a maiden hunter to Saratoga Springs. George- M. Odom has shipped the big string of horses which make up the Brighton Stable to Empire City. In England a tax is now levied on the admission fee charged to race courses, as well as football matches, theaters, etc. Tht! totalizator turnover for the three days, tif the Adelaide Racing Club meeting was 31,415, as against 3.i,S!5 last year. John E. Madden will send his big string of thoroughbreds to Saratoga at. once to be freshened for the August meeting at the Spa. According to a report from New Orleans II. D. Brown has abandoned his plan to establish another winter race course at that point. A. J. Joyner will ship his stable to Saratoga Springs July 17. He is training horses belonging to George I. Widener, Jr., M. L. Schwartz and Thomas Fortune Ryan. The Austro-IIungarian government has given leave of absence from the front to all jockeys ami boys engaged in race riding. When the racing season is over they will return lo the ranks. During Ids career as a jockey in England, 1. Mahcr only once rode over hurdles, and was successful. S. Doiioghue, who is now Englands best rider, has a similar record. He won on Lady Diane in 1012, that mare being favorite at 11 to S in a field of sixteen. The meeting just closed at Fort Erie is described as the most successful in all respects in the history of the Niagara Racing Association. The one drawback was the small field that contested the Canadian Derby. The turnover in the mutuels is said to have exceeded 00,000 tin several days. The Calcutta Turf Club had its big sweep on this years New Derby, all profits being handed over to patriotic funds. The stewards guaranteed a minimum sum of 0,000 as a donation to the funds mentioned, which gives some idea of the number of tickets it was anticipated would, be sold. Tumbler and Dominant, two of the leading members of the Harry Payne Whitney stable, are said to have gone amiss. The former, a juvenile of much promise, will probably return to the races at Saratoga, but it is believed that Dominants racing activities in the future will be limited. Richard Wootton is carrying out his idea of mating a few mares in England to Australian time, and then sending them to Australia. The sire chosen is Stornaway, by .Desmond Sisterlike, owned by Mr. E. Hultoii. When racing, Stornaway was smart, the Gimcrack Stakes being among the events won by him. The agitation on the part of the Owners, Breeders and Trainers Association in respect of tiie reduction of the size of fields at Sydney proprietary courses has had some effect. The Moorfield and Canterbury Park clubs have agreed that in future when more than twenty-five horses are left in a race, divisions will be resorted to. This will mean the expenditure of an occasional extra 50 by those clubs, but will give many horses better chances of success and reduce the possibility of accident. The attendance at Randwick on the opening day of the Australian Jockey Clubs winter meeting was about 18,000. which, considering we now have racing i" and near Sydney almost every day in the week, was satisfactory. It was anticipated the war would tend to a slight reduction of racing in this state, but metropolitan supporters of the sport are now catered for more liberally than at . any previous time. It is possible to overdo anything, however, and those most congerned should not lose sight of that fact. Saturdays racing was excellent, but, as usifal at Randwick, punters suffered, five of the six winners starting at outside prices. There have been only two days at Randwick this season on which backers of first favorites have come out with a slight advantage over the "books." . Sydney Referee. j Some horse owners never abandon hope, relative 1 to which "Nimrod" writes as follows in tiie Laun- t ceston, Tasmania, Courier; "It has now become t quite the practice here to put horses back into 1 training after a turn at the stud, but it is quite 1 unusual to see a stallion put. hack to racing after such a long absence from the race course as in the ; case of Chatswood late Kirin, which ran at . Devtmport on Saturday. This son of Arsenal is now fourteen years old, and he has not raced for over nine years. He carries his age well, and showed some pace in the early part of the race on Satur- ; day, but did not last long." A Manchester paper has it that when some pf the French deputies visited England they inquired of Dr. Runcimaii how he had managed to obtain the consent of the racing authorities to the cessation , last year. In reply he told them that while travel- ing one day he saw a trainloatl of wounded soldiers at a standstill, and on inquiry he was told it was held up by a race "special." Touched by this, he sought a remedy, but was told that he would meet ; with endless difficulties if he attempted to tackle the question. So he went straight to the officials of the Jockey Cluh ami told them the story. He found them most sympathetic and agreeable to the stoppage of "specials," and so Dr. Ruucimau gained by a little judicious conversation what he would have had difficulty in obtaining by other methods.
