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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Shelby West has taken over the horses owned by G. M. Miller. Jockey L. Gentry will ride for T. C. McDowell during the remainder of the fall meetings in Kentucky. For the current season 145 bookmakers have been licensed to bet in the paddock. 127 in the leger, and 124 on the flat at Uandwick. Sydney. N. S. W. The fees for these licenses total 0,450, and then each bookmaker lias to pay a government tax as well. The New South Wales government now receives twenty-five per cent of the fees paid by bookmakers to racing ;dubs. For the current season the Australian Jockey Clubs contribution to the state from the source mentioned is 9,235, and that has been paid into the treasury. At the start of races at Uandwick, Moorefield, Warwick Farm and Canterbury meetings in Australia, unruly horses are in the future to be separated from the remainder of the field by means of hurdles or their equivalent, which arc to form a lane a few feet from the outer fence. There are twenty-six pari-mutuel machines in use at Douglas Park this fall, including three of the S20 varietv; three of the S10 denomination; four for the tickets, and thirteen for tickets. In addition there is a combined machine for those desiring to invest S3 each way across the board and one machine combining a .?0 wager and one machine for wagers of straight and place. There is also a combination. During the past season imported hort-es won a fair share of races at registered meetings at Sydney, their record being as follows: Trinobantes, 5; Limelight, Value and William the Silent, 2 each; and Bav Rum, Bursar, Flash of Steel, Flippant. Green Cap, Hecate, Nizan, Noceur, Princess Hazel. Plasticine, Quinns Post, Random Shot, Canzone and Treadwcll, 1 each. The total is twenty-fivo wins, and Lone Gull, which was sired in England, also won a race. The percentage of English horses successful in Australia certainly does tend to bear out the contention that, as a whole, they are of much better class thau our own. Sydney Referee. At the Adelaido Australia Racing Clubs recent general meeting a suggestion by one member that the accommodation in the ladles totalizator should be increased, drew from another member the retort that it should be done away with altogether. And perhaps the latter idea would be tho better one, as it scarcely seems right that the speculative instincts of our womenfolk should be directly encouraged. In Victoria bookmakers are not allowed to bet with women, and in New South Wales there are many who will not do so, oven though it is not against the law. There are few less pleasing sights than that of women struggling about the betting ring or to the totalizator windows to place a bet, and if we ever do get the machine in Now South Wales perhaps it might be as well to debar women, as well as minors, from patronizing it. Sydney Referee.
