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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Johnny McTaggarf was suspended for three days by the stweards at Laurel, Thursday, after he had won the sixth race with Queen of Paradise. lie was charged witli herding his opponents against the rail soon after the start. Forty-two English thoroughbreds, consigned to Howard Oots of Lexington, Ky.; George W. Wing-field of Reno, Xev.; J. H. Rossiter of San Francisco, Cal.; Grant Hugh Browne of Goshen, X. Y.; J. E. Widener of Philadelphia, Pa., and other American breeders and racing men, arrived at New York Thursday on the Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha. The Canadian stables of Messrs. Giddings, Dy-ment, Seagram and Hendrie have been sent into winter quarters. George W. Beardmore of Toronto has turned out his string, which John Graver has been training for him, at the Hunt Club in Toronto, until spring. M. Gormans horses are still at Woodbine, but will be shipped to Kenihvorth Park at Windsor. George D. Widener, Jr., has gone into racing seriously this year, and for 1917 his silks promise to cut a most important figure. He has made many important purchases and, with Joyner fitting the horses, it is inevitable that the silks will reach a real importance in turf history. The Erdcnhcim Farm is the home of the Widener thoroughbreds, and there is no more famous farm in this country. It was at Erdenheim that both Parole and Iroquois were bred and many another champion first saw the light of day there. With Joyner taking charge, the famous old establishment will return to much of its glery of the long ago.
