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CURRENT- NOTES OF THE TURF Mrs. August Belmont, wife of tin; chairman of tho Jockey Club, is "doing her hit" in France in connection with the American Red Cross. Hal Price Headley and his partner II. I!. Miller are in New York and it is said that they will attend, the sale of the late S. L. Parsons horses, to ho old next Friday. W. L. Oliver will leave Judge Wingfield and Ed Bond at his Lakewooil farm during the winter hiontlw while he is racing at New Orleans with Carbide, Billy Oliver and u few others. No less than sixty-three jockeys have accepted mounts at Jefferson Park since the opening on Thanksgiving Day. Butwell. Itonianelli ami Casey are among the latest to appear in the saddle. G. W. Loft, owner of Papp. winner of this years Futurity, is a wealthy candy manufacturer of New York. AVllfrid Viau, who bought Omar Khayyam at the Johnson and Billings sale for 6,600. is one of .Montreals wealthiest men and owner of the largest biscuit Manufacturing plants in .Canada. Clarence Buxton, with fourteen thoroughbreds, has arrived at Jefferson Parish track from Tijuana Buxton -was one of the first horsemen to ship west this fall and he also was one of the last to ship east when he found that the Tijuana meeting was an impossibility. He was delayed for several weeks by inability to get horse cars and he was not sure of getting stalls at either of the local tracks until a week ago.
