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i : . , r f . , t , t CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The license of jockey Taylor, riding at Tijuana, was revoked by the steward of the Lower California Jockey Club because of misbehavior and failure to keep in condition. In victory as well as defeat, race horses are sometimes called hard names. For example, the two-year-old Troowen was described as "a dirty little black colt" after a recent victory. Reckless riding is charged against the boys at Tijuana. Some of the finishes would be a credit to cowboys for rough riding, according to one turf writer. Dopesters have found the going at Tijuana just about as rough. Jockey A. Pickens is riding in brilliant form at Tijuana and has twenty-five winners to his credit since the opening of the meeting. On Thursday last, Pickens rode three winners, one second and two thirds, not bad at all for one d-iys work. G. W. Wingfield and wife are recent arrivals at San Diego, Cal. Wingfield, who is president of the Nevada State Racing Commission, has the leading winning stable at that far-western track and will remain some time to see his horses in action. The Breeder and Sportsman says: "New York is the best market in the United States for high-class horses because there is more wealth there than in any other city. For the ordinary horse Chicago is the best market, as there is where the dealers are most numerous." A number of good horses are now owned by Cubans, and with the Cuban government embarking upon the project to breed their army horses, in-i stead of purchasing them from abroad, racing has taken on an economic feature, which must make for good times in that country. At Pinehurst, N. C, last Wednesday, one day of racing was given by the Pinehurst Jockey Club. A three-eighths of a mile race on the flat, for hunt-, ors, was won by Chase, ridden by N. Hurd; Sands, Whitlock up, was second, and Jessie C, piloted by G. H. Crocker, finished third. Walter Jennings evidently thinks highly of the get of Uncle judging by the number of sons and daughters of that sire, which he has entered for A. K. Macomber in the two-year-old stakes at Sara-, toga. Whereas this past season he shows a partl-: ality for the get of Sunstar. the English sire, these run second to those of Uncle as entered in the big Saratoga events. In the United States Hotel Stakes Jennings has entered seven colts by Uncle and six by Sunstar. i " " ; ; i . I . t t - 1 . k 1 3 - - s r " T
