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CUERENT NOTES OF THE TURF, Former jockey .7. Daly is now in the rubber business at Butte, Montana. According to some of the English sporting papers-, indifferent starting is one of the unpleasant features of racing at Newmarket. Thomas Hitchcock has shipped his dozen or more cross-country horses to MarjMand. They will take part in the steeplechasing at Havre de Grace. There is talk of a fourth track at Windsor. Eddie Glassco, of that Canadian border city is said to have a charter ready if the necessary capital is forthcoming. Jockey J. Smyth is to have his contract, with D. Raymond canceled, and ride as a free lance. lie has not been in the saddle since the first Ottawa meeting. The Essex Park fall meeting at Hot Springs was declared oft because Governor George II. Hays notified Sheriff Jlanley of Garland County not to permit betting. Sir Sigmund Neumann, South African financier and race horse owner, died at Bournemouth in Bug-land Wednesday. lie was bora in 1S57 and was created a baronet in 1912. The Huntington Valley Hunt of Willow Grove, Pa., has made application for a racing date on October 14. It is the first time this hunt has ap-lled for sanction to race. J. E. Madden has purchased the two-year-old filly Affection from William P. Orr. and will use her as n broodmare. Mr. Orr bought the filly at the Sanford sale last week at. Belmont Park. R. T. Wilsons yearlings, which have been summering at Saratoga, are due at Belmont Park. There are nine of them, and among them is a brother to Campfire, which has been much admired. Jeremiah F. Lynch, known to racing folks iu the east for several years, and for a long time associated with Robert Lloyd, died Wednesday at his New York home. Mr. Lynch was 53 years of age. At the recent Warwick Farm meeting in Australia, the stipendiary stewards notified J. Tom-linson that if lie continued to run unfit horses they would recommend the cancellation of his trainers license. Trainer S. O. Hildreth, having again changed his plans, has shipped the Belmont stable to Havre de Grace, including Stromboli, Tea Caddy, Hourless, Malachite, Fernrock, Delancey, Deer Trap, Wood Trap, Dcckmate and Libyan Sands. Manager S. N. Uolm.ni of the Kempton course at Laprairie, Que., says it is not true that he will move to an Ontario location next year. The track is not on the Montreal side of the St. Lawranee, but is on the other side of the big river. T. DeWitt Cuyler, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., has found it impossible to conduct his proposed race meeting on October 23 of this year, and that meeting has been declared off. Mr. Cuyler has only deferred his daj of sport and promises there will be a meeting next season. Because the stable of William Wray is not in the care of a licensed trainer it has been ordered that further entries of the stable be refused, and that George Foley, whose name was given as the trainer, and E. L. Fitzgerald, who actually had the horses in charge, be reported to the Canadian Racing Associations. .Murphy, winner of tin? first race at Havre de Grace on Tuesday, ran in an unusual equipment for a thoroughbred. He wore on his right hind leg an extension shin and hook boot, in addition to a regulation scalper such as trotters wear. This equipment was found necessary because of a tendency he has to strike himself while running. Emil Hers has presented Devil Fish to the New York State Breeding Bureau, and George Odom also has made the bureau a present of Marse Henry. Devil Fish is an imported son of Robert le Diable and Water Nymph blood lines that should make him a first-class stock horse. Marse Henry, on the other hand, is by the American sire, Ben Brush, out of Nuns Cloth, an imported Melton mare.
