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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Among the Australian killed in France recently was Corporal W. Allan, the first bookmaker to enlist in New South Wales. Alleyn, an aged gelding by Planudes Ivory Belle, and consequently a half-brother to the Kentucky Derby winner Old Rosebud, has been winning races in Australia. He has recently changed hands and is now in J. Kellys care at Melbourne. Sol Joel is sending about ten horses from England to South Africa to race. Sir Abe Bailey is droi-ping out of racing in South Africa so as to give the small owners in that country a chance, but Mr. Joel has no intention of being so considerate. Racegoers in Russia like plenty for their money, seventeen races in a day being nothing unusual. At Moscow, on June S, there was a program of nineteen races. Fortunately none had to be run in divisions, else the day would not have been long enough. The English-bred stallion Planudes, by St. Simon Lonely, which sired many good winners in this country and was sent to Australia In 1912, died there last July at W. Glassoas stud in Queensland. Waldo was probably the best of his progeny in this country. In the house of representatives last week Mr. Finlayson asked the prime minister whether, in the interests of recruiting, he would consider the expediency of closing all race courses and stadiums throughout Australia. The prime ministers reply, which excited a deal of laughter, was as follows: "There are so many, so very many things that I would like to shut up, that I do not purpose to take this other little job on." Sydney Referee. "Such a big, long horse as Prince Charlie, wrong in his wind, was almost bound to fail at Epsom," says an English writer, "but on the town moor at Doncaster the story might easily have been very different. Prince Charlie was the finest big horse ever seen in my time, and he had fully as much bone as Hurry On, with more length. He failed just a little in heart room, not being quite equal there to his sire, Blair Athol. At a mile or under he was beaten but ouce, and that time it was not his fault." "The turn of the tide has been remarkable," writes a racing authority from laris. "A couple of months ago we were sitting in sackcloth and ashes, but now Ave have seen horses racing in silk over a proper course at Caen, and, further, Ave have the promise that the near future will bring more sport. The past cannot be recalled, but though Ave may not see for some time the racing colors of more than one popular stable, there is as yet no question of breaking up those studs which haA-e supplied our best Avinuers for years past."
