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! ; i J CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey T. Nolan lias been reinstated to the extent of riding for iiis stable-employer, E. Kane at Tijuana. Nolan was set down on the opening day for his rough ride on Little Jake. Jockey R. Imes suffered a fractured ankle last Saturday morning while he was astride Thirty Seven at the Tijuana track. The gelding threw him against the fence. The injury is not serious, but painful. AVilliam Perkins offered Joseph S. Hawkins 5,000 for Chalmers. It was declined. Perkins bought from F. E. Drivert the four-year-old Jim Winn and gave the yearling bay filly by Ballot Captivity in part payment. Though Star Hawk cost his owner, A. K. Macomber, more than 20,000, and has returned less than half that amount this year, he will not bo considered i bad bargain. Horses that can earn nearly 10,300 by winning three races are worth all that Star Hawk cost. Grant Hugh Browne, who has but recently returned from Cuba, motored down from his home and breeding farm at Goshen, N. Y., to the Grave-send track to look over the big band of yearlings he has quartered there. Mr. Browne intends to dispose of about thirty of the youngsters and they will be sold by auction by Powers-Hunter Company, at Durlands, about the middle of December. Congressman George Loft, who was at Saratoga for several days recently, says that work was starting on the clubhouse and quarters for the club which will have the old Hilton estate at Saratoga next year. The three large buildings on the grounds, which include a golf course and other country club features will be maintained, but will be entirely remodeled and turned into model quarters for the members of the new association, who will spend the racing season at Saratoga. It is now assured that all will be in readiness there before the racing opens next August. The Supreme Court of Kentucky, in deciding the case of Cain versus Garner, gave the following definition of the qualities of a competent jockey: "The value of a race rider, in addition to his ability to ride at light weight, consists largely in his : skill and judgment, as evidenced by his ability to get his mount away from the post in the most advantageous position, to properly rate his horse throughout the entire race, to save all the ground possible and to take advantage of every opportunity during the race of getting the position most favorable to winning it." Manager Joseph A. Murphy of the racing department of flu; New Orleans Business Mens Itacing Association, lias addressed to the Canadian Itacing Associations, the Jockey Club of New York and the i Kentucky State Racing Commission an appeal for the revocation or suspension of the regulation excluding from racing this year any two-year-olds that run in races prior to April 1. The change is i not likely to be made unless supported by stronger arguments than have been presented. Those organizations will not accept the dictum that the rule is without merit. They adopted it because they believed it had merit. Francis Nelson in Toronto J lobe.
