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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. In race 30010 Piraeus place tickets were 1916.sh.10, not 1916.sh.80 as was erroneously telegraphed. Elespian broke down badly at Media, Pa., last Wednesday and will probably never be seen under colors again. Charles J. Nolte, superintendent of the Douglas Park track, reports there are about fifty horses at Douglas Park, and that they will all winter there. The Barbarossa Rennen at Berlln-Grunewald, like the German St. Leger. was won by the Royal Grad-itz Stud, the filly Circe taking the first-named event. H. D. Brown will visit Devonshire Park while racing is on at that Windsor track next week in order to acquaint horsemen with ills plans for racing at New Orleans and Havana. The German St. Leger, which was run for on September 24, was won by the Royal Graditz Studs filly Adresse, by Nuagt Antwort, from four others. The race was worth 40,000 marks. John McGrath, track superintendent at Marianao, writes that there are fifty-seven horses in training at Oriental Park now, and that every few days a stable arrives. . He says the course is in first-class order and predicts a fine meeting in Cuba. Trainer Stephen Lawler has four particularly fine looking yearlings In charge at Gravessend. There Is a brown filly by Helmet Eonic, a bay filly by Helmet Grail, a bay colt by Ballot Discipline, and a chestnut colt by Ballot Blue Rose. At the famous Australian track Randwlck, the rich Metropolitan Stakes, was won on October 7, by Quinologist, with Polycrates second and Cetinge third. It lias 5,000 added and Is a dash of a mile and a half. The betting against the placed horses was 14 to 1, against the winner; 8 to 1, Polycrates, and 9 to 1, Cetinge. Thirty-five ran. Louis Martine is engaged in inclosing one of the training barns at Gravesend for winter quarters for the thoroughbreds lie lias In training at the old track. The remedied training barn will be one of the up-to-date sort now much in vogue at Belmont Park, affording a covered and perfectly sheltered training track miming completely around the big building. The brown yearling colt, by Sir Achibald Roman Matron, which Howard Oots bought at auction in England recently, could not be shipped out of England, on account of coming from a farm on which there -was sickness. Mr. Oots left him there to be sold. To keep his shipment up to fifteen, Mr. Oots purchased the brown yearling colt by St. Net The Hare, which Is now at the Kentucky Association track with the rest of Mr. Oots importations. Supreme Court Justice Francis L. Delehanty has reserved decision at New York, after hearing testimony in Mrs. Helen Henrys divorce action against Milton Henry, famous jockey, and once wearer of Baron Rothschilds colors. No defense was entered bv the jockey, who at present is riding horses for King Alfonso of Spain. The action for absolute divorce is based, according to the testimony, on the ground that Henry has been on too friendly terms with Mile. Jeanne Francois, a dancer, who scored a success in Paris at the beginning of the war.
