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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The entry of Abdul has been refused at Diifferin Park, due to bad post behavior. Fully 5. MM! people taxed the accommodations at Dufterin Iark last Saturday to witness a card of eight well contested races. Water is an expensive item on the gold fields of western Australia. During the racing year there, which has just closed, it cost the Kalgoorlie Club Jp.tMIO. At the Coronado Country Club track in southern California, the Decoration Day program included four running races, two of which were for l". S. Army Officers and horses. In western Australia the Racing Restriction Bill, as reeently passed by Parliament, was brought into force by proclamation June 1. This means that the now unregistered racing clubs will come in under the rules of the Western Australia Turf Club, and that they will only be allowed to race twenty-six days during the year. The Australian jumper Jack Rice, which has proven his general superiority by winning under crushing weights, is nine years old and by the English sire Rico — Explain. At Sydney. N. S. W.. April 7, Jack Rice won with 191 pounds up, but a few days later April 11, he was beaten easily under 198 pounds by Quirindi, 139 ihjiuuIs. The jockey E. Ames, an Australian arrival from America some years since, and who rode in Sydney, N. S. W., is now in England, and a London exchange mentioned he intended riding in that country After leaving Australia Ames spent a number of years in India, but though lie was successful there, be must now be accounted a veteran.
