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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. A. C. Pnrretto has The Masquerader, Repton, El Bey and Obolus at the Fair Grounds track. R. S. Farmer has arrived at Juarez from San Antonio wifh. the horses Briton and Charity Ward. Jockey Ike Tullett is given the credit at Juarez of "having made a good post actor" out of Pan-hachapi. There arc eighty-five horses wintering at Bowie, when; they will be kept until the spring meetings in Maryland open. On the closing day of the Bowie meeting, R. Pending sold Hiker to W. C. Capps, who shipped the filly to Havana to race at Oriental Park. W. T. Anderson shipped a string of thirteen horses to Tijuana last Thursday, intending to race at the Lower California track the rest of the winter. J. E. Davis, the wealthy eastern owner, recently offered James Arthur ,500 for the crack Ogden two-year-old colt, Bondage. The offer was refused, Arthur holding out for 0,000. The guesses at the list of dates for Canadian racing, which have been made in various quarters will probably be found to be wide of the mark When an official list is decided on. There apparently will be few off days for Walter Jennings the approaching season, as with the arrival of the imported A. K. Macomber horses he will have fifty-four thoroughbreds under his charge. This is the largest stable in the hands of any one man. J. C. Milam has purchased from the W. II. Laude-man estate the yearling bay colt by Peep oDay Damson. The price reported was ,250. This colt was broken by T. L. Pierce, who says he is exceptionally fast. Duke of Ormonde, purchased out of the G. D. Wilson dispersal sale at Lexington, on December 1, by Thomas Jones of Winchester and later sold by hiin to John E. Madden, will make the season of 1917 at Hamburg Place. Duke of Ormonde is a half-brother to Ormondale, also at Hamburg Place. Pluto, the W. E. Applegate two-year-old, which has raced with success at Juarez, is a rather good-looking, although slightly slim, son of the great race horse, Jack Atkin. Trainer AVeir had to pay 05 over the entered price to retain Pluto in his victory over Edna F., the hitters owner, A. A. Gregg, doing the boosting. The Wisconsin Supreme Court followed the rules of racing when it decided that a boxer disqualified for foul was entitled to no part of the purse. The application of the rules and discipline of the turf would benefit other sports, too. Racing is the oldest, most universal and most systematically conducted of them all. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe. It is said to ho practically assured that Memphis will stage a ten-day meeting following directly on the heels of the Hot Springs .season in the spring. The racing last. year at Hot Springs was so successful that Memphis merchants have resolved to have a meeting of their own. Joseph A. Murphy is behind the movement, and he is expected to put it through. L. Burlingame, who recently purchased the horse, Bert L., at Juarez, is to make the riding engagements for jockey T. M. Budd Johnston, a recent arrival from the fair and bush meetings of the middle west and north. The newcomer to the big tracks is reported a crack pilot from the jungles, having, according to his own story, ridden 100 winners out of 148 mounts. Johnston expects to ride at 105 pounds. He was formerly associated with the Burlingame stable. El Paso Times. Jockey Herman Gibson broke out of the "maiden" class of riders when he won at Juarez a few days ago on Zia. In doing it, incidentally, the boy engaged in a vigorous stretch duel with O. Hunt on Blarney, the favorite of the race. Gibson is eighteen years old, a native of Fort Worth Texas, the son of a Texas railroad man, and recently signed a three years contract with Singleton and Moore. In the Zia race the boy displayed a cool head, never going to the whip, while steadily overhauling Blarney. It was the boys fifth mount in any race. Waremore, the Texas-bred colt that showed such fine performances at Juarez last spring, and which went wrong when Kay Spence shipped him to Churchill Downs, is again displaying the speed that he showed in his early two-year-old days, and already he is being heralded as the champion of the coming three-year-olds at the Mexican track. Spence is of the opinion that the son of i First Chip Kittle Piatt is of Derby caliber, and ; fully Intends to enter him in next years Kentucky Derby. The colt is the property of W. J. Weber, of San Antonio, Texas, who bought him as a j yearling for a nominal price.
