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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. J. C. Milam today sold to F. W. Staten of Cincinnati the three-year-old bay gelding Hans Opper. Sharpshooter is being taught to jump and will carry the silks of Robert L. Gerry at the Piping Rock meeting today. Countess Eugenie Lazeroff has written Algernon Maingerfield from Petrograd, Russia, telling of the safe arrival there of jockey Eddie Mugan, who will ride for her. Algernon Maingerfield, assistant secretary of tho Jockey Club, has returned to New York from Maryland. He reports that the racing at Havre de Grace was tremendously successful and that the opening at Laurel was the best ever enjoyed by that association. Todays meeting at Piping Rock will introduce a new" racing firm. It will be known as "Mr. Cloister." This assumed name has been registered bv two sportsmen, who are well-known bankers of New York and Roston. It is their intention to purchase several horses to race on the regular tracks as well as at the hunt meetings. The New Zealand Racing Conference has decided that in future apprentices riding in the Mominion are to retain their allowance of five pounds in selling races and handicaps of the net value of not more than 000 to the winner until they have won fifteen races. Previously the allowance ceased when an apprentice rode five winners. The Autumn Stakes at Newmarket was chosen for tho debut of Molly Mosmond, tho two-year-old daughter of Desmond and Iretty Polly, which is a charming filly, as good looking as she is well bred. Evidently a game one, she fought out a great finish with Athdara, resulting in a dead-heat, and but for being new to the business would no doubt have won outright. Athdara is also a Desmond. Percy Evans, gentleman rider, who was seriously hurt by his fall with the horse Association at the Belmont Park Terminal course last Saturday, is reported out of danger. Mr. Evans has been iu St. Marys Hospital, in Jamaica, ever since the accident, and for a considerable time it was feared that his back was broken. X-ray photographs of the injury revealed that there was no fracture of the spinal column, as was at first feared, and yesteday he was reported as being on the road to recovery
