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NOTES OF THE TURF FROM OTHER LANDS. Mr. L. Mantachof, the Russian owner, has sent his two three-year-old fillies, Mira II. and Sly Lassie, to the stud. The former has been mated with Lenibcrg, and Sly Lassie has been on a visit to Sunstar. At the Newmarket July sale Mr. Frank Cimdell, the Swindon "vet," gave 400 guineas for the filly by Fugleman Rappel, but it transpired that Mr. Cundell was buying on behalf of Mr. Ellis, the American owner of the Irish Derby -winner. J. II. Skeets Martin, the well-known jockey, whilst motoring in the Avenue at Newmarket on the evening of July 4, had a narrow escape from serious injury. To avoid colliding with another motor, coming in tin? opposite direction, he had to run his car on to the pavement, where it struck a tree, and was badly smashed. J. Osborne, the veteran Malton trainer, was at Newmarket July 4, looking wonderfully hale and well. Despite his eighty-three years lie walked from the town to the July Course subsequent to riding at exercise during the early morning. One North country owner remarked when discussing a match with J. Butters: "I would back him to beat some of the young uns, never mind the old uns." It is to be hoped in these days, when so much press work has to be done over the wires, that the fashion for giving horses long names will not be persevered with. The late Sir Tutton Sykes once named a horse All Heart and No leol. Then another owner a century or so ago had an animal by the name of Here I Go With My Eye Out. Yesterday Mr. Leopold de Rotschld ran a horse? Quick Or You Lose It a phrase that one of our auctioneers uses just before he brings the hammer down. London Sporting Life. Mr. G. Renwick, the owner of Sehamyl, which .he bought out of a selling race at Ripon last year for 120 guineas, is rightly proud of his soldier sons. Of these he has five four being officers out at the front. Two are majors and three captains. Maj. W. II. Renwick of the Northumberland Fusiliers, who trained for his father before the war, is invalided homo suffering from shock, but is Hearing convalescence. Maj. Renwick had the satisfaction in the Summer Cup of being present to witness the success of Sehamyl at Newbury on Saturday, July 1. though he expects to return to France at the end of the present month.
