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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Sixty members of the Montreal Hunt Club are now in active service overseas. Colonel Matt Winn has left El Paso. Tex., for . Kentucky, but H. F. Rreivogel will remain for a time clearing up the odds and ends remaining from the Juarez meeting. The Wickliffe Stable of Corrigan and McKinney will be well supplied with capable riders for the coming season of sport, having under contract Mack Garner, R.KIeeger and A. Schuttinger. The Crossways Stables The Dean, a three-year-old bay filly by P ryn Mavvr— Single Shot the latter by Star Shoot, a winner at Aqueduct last summer, has wintered well at Gravesend. She is a i half-sister to Sharpshooter. Rruee McDaniel thinks especially well of King , Herod, the three-year-old son of Colin that G. H. Rroyvne imported from England, despite the colts | failure to show anything in his two starts last t year. He is with others of the Browne string at t Palmetto Park. The horses trained at Newmarket by W. Walters, I brother of trainer John Walters of the George M. Hendrie stable, include the property of four , owners. Of the twenty head in his charge, fourteen i are owned by E. Hulton. who headed the list of winning owners in England last year. Among the most recent of casualties among officers f the Rritish army was reported the loss of " Lord Torrington. who gave up his life for the * "cause." Lord Torrington was affectionately referred to by his friends as "Little T.," and he had many friends and intimates who are now in this country. " lie was known as a good chap and a keen sportsman, whether he was driving at breakneck speed in his motor car or exercising horses at Epsom. or riding in a race, as he frequently did. He was 1 noted for being one of the earliest birds to flock c on the course at Epsom, no matter how late lie might have been out the night before, and he liked 1 to have a leg-up on one of his own horses for a 1 v, oik -out.
