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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. J. C. Milam has sold the three -year-old bay gelding Hans Opper to F. W. Staten of Cincinnati. Jockey G. Scherrer rode Premo Vera in race 29012, and not W. Schamcliorn, as was erroneously sent out from the track. It is a provision of the sale of the yearlings from the National Stud, which was presented to the British government by Col. Reid Walker, that no colt bred there may at any time be exported from the United Kingdom without written permission from the board of agriculture. The government is being urged to make this provision apply also to fillies. To date the remarkably virile stallion Star Shoot lias sent twenty-five winning two-year-olds to the races, greatly increasing his already huge family actively engaged in racing. Of the twenty-five Ivory Black is probably best, but, considering the wear and tear hardihood of the Star Shoots, it may be that in the long run some other one or two will win great honors in the future. The filly Vivian S., third at Devonshire, Friday, carries the colors of S. H. Shore, whom not all race-goers would recognize as the noted hockey player, "Hambly" Shore. Another hockey celebrity, Fred Whitcroft, from Peterboro, who has prospered greatly in the northwest, is raising thoroughbreds on his ranch between Calgary and Edmonton and will have some young stock by Sinbad ready for next seasons racing. Toronto Globe. J. W. Parrish has during the past week received two flattering offers for his great Ballot two-year-old Midway. One of 5,000 from a prominent eastern owner, after Midways sensational race on Wednesday at Churchill Downs, in which lie carried 124 pounds, and another of 0,000 from Jack Adkins, former owner and trainer of Buckhorn, half-brother to Midway. Both offers were declined because Mr. Parrish thinks he has in Midway a second Ballot. Edward J. Fleming was arrested last week on the St. Louis Agricultural Fair Grounds at Max-v.clton, St. Louis County, charged with being tiie custodian of a bet on a horse race. The prosecuting witnesses are Emery W. Chase, a St. Louis saloon keeper; Hugh Sweeny and Edward Henitz. It is charged that Chase and Henitz made a 0 bet on a race at the fair and Fleming was the stakeholder. Fleming was released on a writ of habeas corpus. It is expected the case will be fought through the courts, witli the purpose of testing the Missouri anti-betting law. Two well-known soldiers returning from the front today or tomorrow are Major D. King Smith of the armv medical corps and Colonel George Carruthers of the artillery, the latter having made his homo in Winnipeg for a good many years since lie Avas a noted race rider and hockey player in Toronto. Major Smith has been away nearly two yeurs, in Egypt and Saloniki, with the Toronto University base hospital, leaving a vacant chair in the judges stand at Woodbine. He is now invalided home witli malaria, but his case is, happily, not serious. Col. Carruthers is returning to take another appointment in the service. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
