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NOTES OF THE TURF IN OTHER LANDS. The added money given by the Australian Jockey Club during the last four years works out as follows: 1913. 13,750; 1914, 30,000; 1915, 30,000; 1910, 20,200. Stanley Wootton, the trainer and ex-jockey, had the Military Cross conferred upon him at Buckingham Palace August 9. The Duke of Toledo King Alfonso of Spain has made a change in his racing colors, which an; now mauve jacket with scarlet St. Andrew cross, mauve cap with gold tassel. The Sixteenth Atlantic Stakes of 2,000 sovereigns, in the Liverpool July program for 1919, for whieli 150 entries were stipulated, has closed with a subscription of 152. Two colts belonging to Marquis de Ganay have arrived at W. Barkers establishment at. Chantilly, and are to be trained in view of their engagement during the Caen meeting. G. Wedgewoori. who has ridden with success in Belgium and Germany, and was arrested in the latter country on the outbreak of the war, has just returned to England from Kuhleben, where he has been interned for a year and seven mouths. He can go to scale at 105 pounds. July !, the Russian Derby was decided at Moscow, Mr. Mantasehefts .Macbeth, by Macdonald II., by Bay Ronald out of Hallin. winning. The winner was ridden by J. Winkfield, who rode a splendid race. There were only six runners, the smallest field for twenty years, on account of a lot of horses coughing. Four mere meetings remain to be disposed of in England, the Third Extra in September, the Newmarket First October. Newmarket Second October and the Newmarket Houghton in October. All are at Newmarket. The September Stakes, substitute for the Doneaster St. Leger, will be run at the Third Extra meeting. At Palmcro Argentine on July 7. one of the crack South American four-year-olds won the Premio Chacabuco 12,000 pesos over a distance of one mile and seven-eighths in the excellent time of 3:10. The winner was Senor de Alvears Dipital. by Calepino Doubtful Honour, which thus beat the North American record time for the distance by nearly seven seconds. At Vienna on July 30 the valuable Preis von Hel-onenthal, a five-eighths race for two-year-olds, worth over 0,000, was won by a head bv Herr V. von Mautners chestnut colt San Gennaro Jurnik from Coralle and Aversion, which ran a dead-heat for second place. The winner is by Gomba destine, Coralle is by Bayarrio Cosette, and Aversion, which belongs to the Grariitz Stud, is by Xuage Antwort dam of the good four-year-old, Anschluss, anil the three-year-olri, Adresse. Reducing the money added to the Melbourne Cup from 0,000 to 5,000 has not lessened the popularity of this truly remarkable race with horse owners says the "Australasian". AVhen the entries were made up it was found that the total was a record for the race. When the cup was instituted in 1801, the added money was a modest ,000. and there were several much richer stakes in Victoria: but the Melbourne Cup at once became an inter-colonial affair, and almost from the time of its inception it has been indisputably the chief racing event of Australia.
