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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The Quincy Stable, trained by James Fitzsim-moi:s, Avill have fifty thoroughbreds in training next year. Fifty per cent of Avinning favorites is the record of the Juarez track since the opening on Thanksgiving Day. Form players have not fared badly. About fifteen of the G. II. Browne horses Avill be shipped to Charleston. S. C, under the care of 1. H. McDaniel, avIio Avill prepare them for early racing next spring. Bringhurst. the crack Kentucky sprinter which won every start, but one last Avinter at New Orleans, will not be raced at New Orleans the approaching meeting. He has been turned out until next spring. Jockey Joe McCahey, Avho was forced to give up riding by reason of ill health, is spending the Avinter at Asheville. N. C. He Avrites that his health is considerably improved. The pari-mutuel method of wagering at the Juarez track is meeting Avith the same measure of success at the Mexican course as it has at every point Avhere the "iron men" have been installed. The Australian Jockey Club Committee has decided that in the future no new license will be issued to single men of military .age avIio Avish to be registered as bookmakers clerks. An Australian trainer. avIio aa-.-is fined 0 for the late scratching of one of his horses, informed the stewards that this a-us the first time he had been fined in a career covering twenty-five years on the turf. It is said that Avhen the Texas legislature convenes, a bill will bo introduced to legalize the use of pari-mntel machines at race meetings in the Lone Star State. If such a bill is enacted into law, a large, modern racing plant may be built at San Antonio, Avhere the climate is ideal for Avinter racing. Martimas awts one of the gamest horses that ever looked through a bridle. Canadian turf folloA-ers had a great attachment for the Hendrie horse as a result of his brilliant aehicA-ements as a two-year-old, especially his victory in the Futurity. Martimas AAas the only Canadian-owned horse to Avin the most coveted of American stakes for juveniles. Charles AA -lark, president of the Golden Gate Thoroughbred Breeders Association of California, assured friends in NeAV York the other day that a concerted effort Avould be made at the next session of the California legislature to push a bill through, that will mean the resumption of racing in California Avith the pari-mutuel style of Avagering as the medium of speculation. In commenting on the reported sale of the Cork race course to Henry Ford, for a factory site for building Ford cars, Francis Nelson in the Toronto Globe caustically says: "This is the second race course to become a Ford factory site, the Detroit plant occupying Avhat Avas once the Highland Park race track. If Mr. Ford is inclined to continue, lie could be shown a fCAV tracks in Ontario and Quebec Avhich he might acquire for similar purposes to the general benefit." Aeterans of the" turf are having their opportunities at the three Avinter tracks now operating. Horses that figured in Saturdays card at IlaA-ana, Juarez and Tijuana included the nine-year-olds Montcalm. Carondolet, Chas. F. Grainger, Polls, John Graham and Dave Montgomery; the ten-year-olds Regards and Injury and the eleA-cn-year-olds Blacksheep, Swede Sam and Fort Johnson. The last-named raced originally for the Kirkfield Stable when the late A. W. Mackenzie Avas living. Donat Raymond, the Avell-knoAvn Montreal brooder and owner of thoroughbreds says there is no truth in the story that lie had sold Malamont to an American syndicate. Malamont is one of two of the get of the famous Flying Fox now in Canada. The other is Red Fox II., owned by the Dyments. of Barrie, Out. Mr. Raymond stated that he Avould breed the best of his mares to Malamont next spring and that he now had one or tAVo foals by him at the farm at Dorval. Capti-e Princess, a daughter of CaptiA-ation and Princess Eager, by Eager out of Holmhurst, by Orvieto, is entitled, says a Dublin correspondent, to be deemed the best of our three-year-olds on the strength of lier successes during the autumn. She has come on Avonderfully during the season, and it is a fine score for the veteran trainer, James Dunne, that his stable has done so Avell Avith the filly. Dunne is the oldest practising trainer in Ireland, and he Avould, I fancy, run John Osborne to a close finish for seniority amongst the trainers in the United Kingdom. A letter to an Australian racing editor says: "Your puzzled annoyance at the name given to a good horse Rael Locin Is shared by many of your readers. The mysterious brain Avave Avhich overwhelms some owners Avhen pondering on the Aveighty subject of christening a horse at times produces remarkable results. To ease your mind, and Avhat stands for my own, I have sol-ed the puzzle. By reading the Avords backAvards gives Lear Nicol. In the name of originality Avhat has the colt done to deserve this? For this banality and others in freak naming, please start an aggitation for a christening committee, and save us from One, Two, Several, and, perhaps, So On. "
