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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Former jockey J. Reid is in the automobile livery business at Saratoga. R. R. Davies, a well-known Sydney bookmaker, has received a commission in the English army. The Hamilton Jockey Club has declined to temporarily lease its pari-miituel machines for use at the Konil worth track at Windsor. A. I. .Humphrey. Jr., a Virginian, who has been prominent ill amateur racing circles in the east is importing sixteen thoroughbreds purchased during a recent trip to Europe. Ten members of the New South Wales cabinet have decided to issue writs against a Sydney newspaper. Libel is alleged in connection with a statement concerning the totalizator. Van Ru and Maud Ledi, the sire and dam of Tixieledi, which ran at Hamilton the other day, were both in yesterdays Dulterin Park program. The Sutherland stable evidently has no place for idlers. The totalizator employes of Auckland, N. Z., have established a war relief fund, to be administered in the interests of all those men employed on machines wlio have gone, or who may go, to the war, and their dependents. Jockey Russell McDermott. a recent arrival on the Canadian" circuit from New York, has signed a contract to ride for James Arthur during the remainder of the Canadian season. His engagements will be made by C. W. Campbell. Though no additional fixtures for this year will he sanctioned by the English Jockey Club, the Newmarket fixtures for next year at Newmarket have already been announced, and cover thirty days, beginning with the Craven meeting ou April 17. Refusing to return 20, which it was claimed he has been overpaid on a winning mutuel ticket, the well-known horse owner, George Alexandra, was taken to court at Hamilton, Wednesday, on complaint of the cashier, who was himself held responsible to the club. On Thursday, though still denying that he was the man who had received the excess, Alexandra paid over the amount and was released. The king has exploited several promising two-year-olds without hitting the mark, but their, turn will come, and in the meantime, Friar "Marcus has done well bv winning a couple of races in such businesslike fashion that he has thoroughly set at rest all doubts as to his courage, and, further, has shown speed which places him in the front rank of spritners, while Sir Dighton began well when he divided the Craven Stakes with Roi dEcosse, but is essentially a horse that wants a resolute man on his back to show at his best. London Sportsman. Mont dOr II., which started for the first time in this country in the Glen Falls Handicap at Saratoga, Thursday, is a five-year-old s6n of Val dOr and Loneliness, for which Jospeh E. Widener paid 100,000 francs as a yearling. The custom in France is that the purchaser shall pay the auctioneers fee, so that the horse really cost 110,000 francs, or 2,000. After the sale Mr. Widener refused an advance for him. He is reported to have shown a half in 45 seconds over the straightaway in France, but he was looked upon as a quitter over there.
