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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF, Easter Itoy is being schooled at Montreal for jumping. Harry Payne Whitneys good filly Regret is reported to be working satisfactorily at Saratoga. Willis Sharpe Kilmers imported Allumeur is going along in training after a brief respite as a result of a bruised foot. Marse Henrys injured leg is giving trouble again. The injury arose from the kicking of a bottle, which broke; ami cut into the pastern. Tin; Allies Selling Handicap and the Verdun Purse are among the; events in the; program of the Windsor Jockey lulls second meeting. Nassovian ran the mile and a half eif the Prin-cess of Wales Stakes in 2:::it. ami the net value of the race; tei Mr. Sanforel was 5,0X0. Fred Iturlew necompanod tho shipment ef C. II. Mackays Fr ne-h-bre-et yearlings to this country last weed; and expects to remain here for a time. Danied McTaggart, father eif jockeys Tommy and Johnny McTaggart, die-el at his home in Now York Saturday evening, following a leing illness with cancer. Jockey Mat MeGee; of Chicago will ride first colors for Senor J. San Miguel at San Sebastian, Spain. His second mount;; have been secured by M. Jean Lieux. Strathoarn was claimed out of the fifth race at Tijuana July 21. There was a double request for the; sem of Planudes and, in a drawing betwee-n W. II. Tally and Walter Suggs, fully was the lucky man. The; horse was cleap at the claiming price if 25. A suggestion has beon made; that the surplus in sedling races on the tracks eif the Canadian Rnc-ing Associations should be; put into a ftmel feir the transportation from meeting to meeting of tlie horse-s racing em that circuit. This would apply to the; share of the second horse, as well as that eif the club. Former jockey Nash Turner, whei has been training of late in France, was an arrival at New York a day eir two ago. It is probable that in the; near future he; will be; managing a thoroughbrcel breeding stud feir T. P.. Thome, who is expected to return te America shortly. Mr. Theirne; maintained a racing stable in France; before the war put a epiictus on racing. Entries feir the Harbor Hill Steeplechase, the big feature eif amateur racing through the field in New-York, will close em Wednesday, August 10, with Hacing Secretary Frank J. Itryan. This event, which is strictly feir three-year-olds, will have an added value eif $.1,000 and a cup of 00. It will be elcciele-el over the two-mile; course at Piping Hock at the autumn meeting eif that association. Tom McTaggart. for which trainer George M. Oelom of the Jtrightem" Stable; refused 5,000 after his victory in the; East View Stakes Saturday, was purchased by Odom for $.00 as a yearling. ITn-feirtunatedy, Tom McTaggart has only twei stake engagements at Saratoga Springs, these being the Saratoga Special and the Grand Ciiion Hotel stakes. In these two events he will meet the best juveniles of the season. Meist eif the thoroughbreds that arrived at New-York Saturday on the Mongolia freim abroad have been sent tei Saratoga. P.esides theise; already mentioned the;re; were; five yearlngs feir Harry Payne; Whitney by Hock Sand and Irish Iiel, three twei-year-olds feir Thomas Hitchcock and four yearlings feir John Sanforel. The last mimed hit included Valerius, a bay e-eilt by Tracery, Oresti!S, bv the; same sire. Adoration, b. f, by Neil Cow Itill and Ceio, and La Husse, ch. f, by Lemburg Joi de Viva.
