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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. They dont do all things better on the Australian turf than here. The- Australian Jockey Tub has amended its rub- prohibiting five-eighths races for horses older than two years, and allows them to be put on programs of meetings held outside of a laelius of sixty miles from the Sydney postoffice, but limits them to one a day. — Toronto Globe. According to the Sydney Referee, recently in Melbourne a deputation from that strong organization, the Australian Natives Association called on the chief secretary Mr. McLeod. to urge on him tiie necessity for the legislation of the totalizator in Victoria. With New South Wales giving a lead, it is not improbable- that the machine will also get an opening in Vi-toria. Track suiM-rinte-i. dents at the Fair Grounds arc-working every minute- of daylight improvii.g the course wherever they see a defect. The automobile-races left the track in poor condition, and the !•--e ision of the Business Mens Racing Association to hold future fairs and auto races at City Park was welcomed by horsemen who expect to come here text winter. — New Orleans Times -Picayune. It is reported that the business men of Jacksonville, Fla., will endeavor to conduct a race meeting in that city next fall beginning immediately after the close of the Bowie meeting and continuing up to the first of the year. It is proposed to establish the course across the river from Jacksonville. All of the business men of Jacksonville it is said will subscribe tie the stock. The; Jacksonville business interests, who expect to operate under the same system us in vogue at New Orleans, have promise-d tiie authorities that outsiders will not be allowed to own a single share of stock and that the revenue if uny, derived will be used to advertise the city.
