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TURF NOTES FROM LANDS ABROAD An offer of 5,000 has been refused for the Irish three-year-old Double Scotch. The death is announced from Melbourne of James Wilson, the well-known race horse owner. Brelin, the Jockey who formerly rode in France for Conite Foy, has been killed in action. The ex-Irish trainer, the veteran Michael Den-nehy, has not missed a Curragh meeting for the past sixty-one years a unique, record. New fences have recently been put up at San-down Park, which is suggestive of racing under National Hunt rules being resumed there after an interval of over two years and a half. Recent .news from Sydney indicates that big reductions have been made in tlie number of race meetings. New South Wales metropolitan meetings have been reduced from 134 to ninety-seven, close to the metropolitan area reduced from ninety-four to thirty and country meetiugs reduced twenty-five per cent. The New South Wales government has introduced taxation by imposing the super-tax of three pence in the pound and doubling the tax levied in connection with bookmakers registration and on betting tickets. The doubling of the tax on bookmakers and betting tickets is estimated to yield an additional 25,000. Part of the famous Highfield training ground at Malton is being put under the plough, a motor tractor employed on the work having started at the week-end. Some fifty acres have been selected by the agricultural committee for cultivation, but the racing track laid down by the late Mr. IAnson, on which so many famous horses Svere prepared, is to be spared. The land being ploughed up forms part of the old steeplechase course, on which races were held from 18S2 to 1904. The Highfield estate in leased to Sir John Thursby. Loudon Sportsman.
