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CURRENT NOTES OF TKE TURF. Workmen are busily engaged at Belmont Park repairing the damage caused by the fire and expect to have everything in readiness for the opening day of the Westchester Racing Association meeting on May 29. At the Hamburg Racing Clubs annual meeting, says Deutseher â– port, the report of 1910 showed a credit balance of 1.500 sovereigns. In the four days racing 217 horses competed for stakes worth, roughly. 02. 599, as against eighty-three runners for stakes worth 248*898 on one day in 1915. Thursday will BBC the eloaiBg of the Maryland spring season, as far as the mile tracks are concerned, and New York will resume with the opening of the Jamaica meeting on Friday. All the prognostications from New York declare that the season promises to be the best on record, more men of wealth and standing and more imported horses of high class being concerned than at any time in the history of the ft BBC Ml aa turf. The new patrol judge on the Canadian circuit succeeds George Cornell, who filled the j.ost so capably last, sea.on and retired in order to again take up training, in charge of Mr. Beardmores horses. "Willie" Martin comes of a family of racing people, but was himself the fiaeat rider of the three heathen, tin- Others being Joe and Jack; in fact, he was at the top of the tree at a period when the American turf had some of its finest horsemen. Matt Byrnes, so well-known to racing a few-years back, has gone into breeding in rather an extensive scab in Canada. Last week he shipped to the Glengarry ranch the stallion Dragoman, a son of Rock Sand, and six broodmares. Mr. Byrnes will add to the establishment from time to time. It was Matt Byrnes that fitted Salvator for his record-breaking mile in 1:35_. at -Monmouth Park in 1899, and he was the handler of many another champion. The governmi at of West Australia has withdrawn for the present the betting suppression bill, the pur-]miso of which was to prohibit bookmaking. wheal sanctioning the totalizator or mutucl system. It was announced, though, that should any dub now using the totalizator attempt to thwart the intention of the government by racing with the bookmakers on days other than those on which the use of the totalizator was licensed, the government would not hesitate to take extreme steps.
