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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. W. C. Clancy lias purchased Uncle Hart at Lexington and will race him at New Orleans, together with Poekichoo. Both of the Clancy horses are now at Louisville. A petition lias been filed in the legislative assembly at Quebec to confirm letters patent for the National Jockey Club, which seeks to build and operate a race track at Montreal. The funeral of Danny Maher, the American jockey, was largely attended at London, Saturday afternoon, Lord Roseberry being among those present. Floral tributes were received from Lord Derby, Lord Roseberry and Prince Leopold of Bat-tenberg. "When Mary Powell won the first race at Pimlico on Monday of last week, she credited her sire. Star Shoot, with his twenty-sixth winning two-year-old, a truly remarkable record even for this great horse. The report of the Jockey Club shows Star Shoot had fifty-two foals in 1914, and of this number twenty-six, or half of them, have earned brackets. "W. J. Young worked the chestnut filly by Plaudit Auverne, bv Sir Dixon, and the chestnut filly by Peter Quince Little Oasis, by Belvidere, at Lexington last Monday, in 23. They finished head and head, and looked like they could have done anything asked of them. The Plaudit filly is the property of J. TV. May and the Peter Quince filly belongs to Capt. J. Breckenridge Viley. English and Irish jockeys have played a prominent part in the advance on the western front, nnd the awarding of the Victoria Cross to Thomas Hughes, a famous Irish jockey from The Curragh, lor a conspicuous feat of gallantry, has aroused intense interest among all followers of the Irish turf. Hughes, a private in the Connaught Rangers, was wounded in an attack, but returned at once to the firing line after having his wounds dressed. Later, seeing a hostile machine gun, he dashed out in front of his company, shot the gunner and single-handed captured the gun. Though again wounded, he brought back three prisoners. Hughes father is a small Ulster farmer. "Willis S. Kilmer of Binghamton, N. Y., disposed of nine horses at Durlands Riding Academy in New York for a total of ,210 at public auction Friday night. The star of the sale was the handsome big chestnut thoroughbred stallion Yellowcrest, which wpnt to Miss Constance Vaucliari of Philadelphia for ,000. Yellowcrest is a ten-year-old sou of Yellowtail and Playful, and he has never been defeated in the thoroughbred stallion class in the show ring. He was winner at Madison Square Garden in 1913, 1914 and 1915, and in addition he won a blue ribbon at Bryn Mawr in 1904. He is entered in the same class at the Garden next week and will doubtless be shown by Miss Vauclain. He raced as Captain John.
