Current Notes of the Turf, Daily Racing Form, 1916-10-06

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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. It is reported at Lexington that Harry Payne Whitney is in negotiations with the New York representatives of the James It. Haggin estate for accommodations on Elmendorf Kami for one thoroughbred stallion and twenty broodmares. Fort Erie is eliminated from the field of promoters of new race tracks in Canada by the provision of the Miller bill, which requires that new race tacks may be established only within three miles of a Canadian city of fifteen thousand population. Malcolm N. Macfarlan. of Memphis, secretary of the Memphis Jockey Club in the days of the great prosperity of the turf in Tennessee, and a well-known western racing official, is the presiding judge at Hillcrest in the absence of Ed Colo at Laurel. It is one of the anomalys of racing that in England such leading turfmen as J. It. Joel and Leopold de Rothschild did not win a race this year until in September at the Newmarket Third Extra meeting. There Mr. Joels North Star, by Sunstar Angelic, won the Itarton Mills Nursery Handicap for two-year-olds, and of the net value of ,400. Mr. Rothschilds victory came when his two-year-old The Sneaker, by Cicero Kelibia, won the Witchford Selling Plato of ,400 and was then bought by John Day for 730 guineas ,790. The sale last week of the mares and young stock of the Valley Farm has left the estate of the late William llendrie without a thoroughbred horse of any kind, with the single exception of Martimas. This great son of Candlemas, winner of more money than any other horse owned in Canada, is not to be disposed of, but will end his days in the possession of the estate. He is now twenty years old, but active and vigorous. It was in 1S9S that Martimas won the Futurity, and Mr. Hendries physician had no hesitation in saying that the success of his ivhite-leggcd colt bad been of more actual physical benefit to Mr. llendrie than any medical attention. The Valley Farm will still be a thoroughbred nursery, though, as in its paddocks roam the mares and youngsters belonging to Sir John llendrie and the George M. llendrie, who are breeding independently, and maintaining the family interest in the thoroughbred horse. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.


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