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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Faux-Col and Leo Skolny have been turned out at John II. Morris Bosque Bonita Farm. The September Handicap divided of 50, one mile and an eighth, was won by Starlet, br. h. 5, by Yankee Sister Stella, at Durban, South Africa, on September 9. There were fourteen starters. The chestnut weanling filly by Peter Quince, out of the Oaks winner AVing Ting dam of Billy Holder and Mary Belle, by Star Shoot, will be sold to divide partnership in the winter sale at Lexington. Jerry Carroll is contemplating sending the AAr. R. Coe horses to the Oaklawn race course at Hot Springs, Ark., for the winter months. This resort has also been selected as u wintering place for the Sanford horses. Thomas AAclsh is due today on the Manchuria on his way back from France with twenty-one yearlings, part of which Jospeh E. AVidener bought from Edmund Blanc, famous French breeder. Seven yearling for John Sanford are in the same shipment. Ruche, a brown yearling filly by Hastings naute Roche sister to Hour Glass, dam of Hour-less, by Bock Sand, was returned last week to the Nursery Stud from Belmont Park. She is too swaybacked to be trained, so she will be put in the stud. Four thoroughbreds belonging to tho Mirasol Stable have reached Gravescnd. They are the three-year-old colt 101 Diuero by Incle Ilerodia, bought out of the Duryoa sale; Nyack, a three-year-old chestnut colt by Uncle Semblance, bought out of the Mackay sale, and the two-year-old American-bred fillies Lady Moll and Buddy. A. J. Goldsborough has returned to New York from Maryland with Ticket, Battle Abbey and Mother Maehree, and they have joined Boamer, which has been enjoying a let up at Gravescnd for 1 some w eks. He also brought Sand Marsh for It. . Miller, who has decided to give that good sprinter a let up for the rest of the year, and the two-year-old filly Bight, belonging to "Walter Condon. Much interest is being manifested in the dispersal sale of the Iroquois Stud, the property of Garrett I. Wilson, to be held at Tattersalls, Lexington, 1 Ky., on Friday, December 1. Besides the successful stallions Stalwart and Duke of Ormonde, Mr. Wilson will dispose of thirteen broodmares, either winners or producers, by such sires as Star Shoot, Voter, Ormonde, Russell, Ben Strome, Garry llerr-man, St. George, Sir Modred and Stalwart. Then-are also seven excellent weanlings in the collection. Members of the Golden Gate Thoroughbred Breeders Association met last Thursday night at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, V-.xl., and decided I definitely on plans to purchase thoroughbred stallions and distribute them around the state to encourage the breeding industry. A committee composed of AVilliam F. Humphrey, Walter Martin and I C. T. Boots was appointed to draft by-laws for " permanent organization. AVhen the report is made, Secretary James C. Nealon will call another meeting. Pif Jr., the winner of the Latonia Cup, was bred I by his owner, It. L. Baker. Smith Baker is It. L. Jlakers son, and the horse is named for Smith ! Bakers son. The little fellow could not say Smith. Jr., but did manage to get out Pif Jr., when asked 1 his name. Little Smith always wanted a black : pony, and so when they came to naming the black ; colt his grandmother immediately said Pif Jr., fits, and so the horse was named. It was Pif Jr., who J was handed to jockey Robinson, and he held the . little fellow while a battery of camera men shot at the horse and the rider.
