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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Trainer A B. Jennings will ship the big stable of A. K. Macomber from Belmont Park to Louisville next Saturday. At Dot Springs last Saturday, it was officially announced that 00 will be the minimum of purses at the coming Essex Park meeting. This is a substantial advance over the previously announced minimum of 00. Following the decision of the New York State Racing Commission that it would be inadvisable to issue a license for the three-day meeting of the Sheepshead Bay Hunts Club, that organization will not hold the meeting planned for September 14 to 10 inclusive. In addition to the stallion Magic, AVillis Sharpe Kilmer has purchased in England two yearlings by that sire, one a brown colt out of Djama and the other a chestnut filly out of Grayshot. They will be shipped to this country, togeether with Magic, in the near future. A schedule of the personal estate of the late Robert T. Holloway. turfman and sportsman, has been filed at Lexington. The aggregate is 0,390, the principal items being: Pennsylvania Railway stock. 3,050; United States Steel stock, 0,000, and life insurance 3,050. Campfire has now won a total of 0,035. This is a greater sum than has fallen to the portion of any horse in American racing since 1910. That year another fine and fast two-year-old. Novelty, won 2,030 for Samuel C. Hildreth and headed the list of money winners of the year. Three two-year-olds, the property of Charles Boyle of AVoodstock. are at AVoodbiue. where they are being whipped into shape for the Ontario Jockey Clubs meeting. They are: Signal, b. c, by Detective Rosedale; Detention, b. :, by Detective Golden AAedding; Censor, b. c, by Detective Cypher Code. If Olambala furnishes Mr. Wilson with others like Camnfire, John K. Madden will lose a mighty good customer. For years Mr. AAilsons racing forces have nearly entirely been Madden-bred horses, but now that his own Olambala seems destined to be a highly successful sire, it would be but natural ; that he should rely on the product of his own operations as a breeder in the future. Trainer James Rowe plans to go back to H. P. Whitneys Brookdale Farm at the close of the Belmont Park meeting. All of the AVhitney three-years-ohl have been sent to the farm, and it is by i no means certain that anything more will be done, with them until 1917. Albert Simons will take a division of the stable to the Maryland circuit, but as yet it has not been decided which horses will go. Rowe reports that the first yearlings o AVhiskbroom II. hold out much promise. In the long run the importations of thoroughbreds from England and France must affect our breeding operations importantly and beneficially. These importations now approximate 600 in number and many more are to come over the Atlantic before this year comes to an end. Some trash is involved, but in the main our new accessions are of the best blood of the two countries and, when sent to the stud, must inevitably exert a powerful influence. The colt Hesperus, for instance, which won Friday, is the son of a Derby winner and an Oaks winner and is superbly qualified to become a great sire in time, . -Z.- u
