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I i i CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. John Keegan, superintendent of the Latonia race course, a patient at St. Elizabeth Hospital, where he underwent a surgical operation, is resting well. The horses in William Walkers stable see the world. In turn they have participated in Avintor racing in Cuba, Juarez, New Orleans, and now they are at Tijuana, Mexico. It having been stated that the number of trains to race meetings in Germany lias been considerably reduced, it is interesting to note that on October 20 five specials were run to the Horst-Emseher meeting, from Dusscldorf, Cologne, Crefeld, Dortmund and Bochum. The cry of distress from Montreal over the in-, corporation of a new racing club, whose activities are to be exercised at night comes too lato. Anybody that stood for the day-time bull-rings should not shy at a night track. And one kind was sure to produce the other, anyway. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe. Juarez, the quaint old city across the Rio Grande from El Paso, has changed governments many times since the Jockey Club Juarez track was opened in 1909, but ever year has found the jockey club pursuing its business, regardless of machine guns, rifles and cannons. The city has been held at different times by Porfirio Diaz. Francisco Ma-dero, Victoriano Huerta, Francisco Villa and Venus-tiano Carranza, but none of them threatened to put a stop to the racing, although plants in other sections of the republic have been shut down-
