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CURRENT NOTES QF THE TURF. Fully S,SSI people witnessed the concluding days racing at HiUcrest Park. Toronto, last Saturday. K. T. Wiioi.s Campfire worked a mile in 1:48 Saturday at Belmont Park and appears ready for a race. Alex Humphrey. Jr.s great race mare Rronze-Wiag by Stalwart, has foaled a chestnut colt by Eallot. Mare relumed to Ballot. Ip to the end of May the most successful jockey in New Zealand was J. OShea. with 98 wins to his credit, next coming A. Reed, o»; J. Olscn, 5" : and C. Emerson. .". Rosemary was claimed by G. A. Alexandra out of the second race at Maisonneuve Saturday, for 8888. C. N. Freeman protested the claim, the protest being disallowed by the officials. Artificial eyes are provided where necessary for Allied horses, and a British veterinary officer on the westen front states that the horses "do not mind the artificial eyes at all, and look awfully well with them." The well-known Australian gelding The Parisian by Bobadil —The Parisienne, was destroyed recently in Victoria. N. S. W. The Parisian. 12 years old. was five when he won the Australian Cup. and at the commencement of the following season he added the Melbourne Cup to his account. The will of the late Philip J. Dwyer. which was filed in the Surrogates Court of New York Thursday, directs the executors of his estate to dispose of all his real estate and other holdings, which include an interest in the Gravesend and Aqueduct tracks, also stock in the Saratoga and other racing associations. The story locally printed about ex-jockey Willie Sims having lieen arrested as a drug user by the Inited States authorities was not true. The "negro arrested declared that he was the ex-jockey, but his story was a fable. Sims himself is in New York; has not been in Chicago for five years, and is not a drug addict. Word has been received at Lexington to the effect that Home Brew died at Colombo en route to the Inited States from India. Home Brew was a bay American -bred mare, foaled 1911, by Broomstick — Jersey Lightning, by Hamburg, therefore a sister to Regret nnd Thunderer. Home Brew was a winner in England before being sent to India and had been purchased by Arthur B. Hancock for breeding purposes.
