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TURF NOTES FROM LANDS ABROAD In Melbourne recently the minister for defense stated that the number of race meetings held in Victoria was 850 in 191314 000 in 191017 and 500 in 191718 In New South Wales the numbers were 1100 in 191314 1000 in 191017 and 780 in 1917 18 There will be 11711 fewer days racing in the whole of Australia this year than in 191314 191314Day Day Comet by St Frusquin Catgut and Archies town by Sir Archibald Craigfllachic two stallions selected in England for the New Zealand Country Breeders Association have arrived in New Zealand and will be located at Hamilton Only members of the association will be able to secure the services if these horses Day Comet is a brother to Quiu ologist and Planet PlanetHorses Horses are rarely started twice in one day at Sydney or Melbourne meetings but at Sundown Iark June 9 Rahccn after failing to get a place in the OIHMI Handicap for which he shared favorit ¬ ism with Linass and Distant Star was started for the Welter Purse His backers for the first race would not stand him again and their feelings can be imagined when he won at 20 to 1 1The The exAustralian jockey B Carslake had several wins in England early this year and is quite a veteran He won the Stockton Spring Handicap on Lord Derbys Hainault the Hastings Plate at New ¬ market on the Duke of Portlands Sir Berkley the Bretby Handicap on Diadem the Newmarket Two Y carOld Plate on Siloiiyx and best of all the One Thousand Guineas on Lord Derbys Ferry a 50 to 1 hance Carslake won the Doucaster Handicap ou Famous in 1905 1905A A corporal of the R A M C serving with the forces in the east writing to the Yorkshire Even ¬ ing Post tells an interesting story of a race meeting held at Bagdad on March 1C in connection with a weeks festivities arranged to commemorate the fall of that historic city Frank AVooton is stated to have ridden the winner of the Bagdad Grand Na tioiial for which there were twentyeight entries but in threequarters of a mile race on a horse named Kiki lie failed to get placed London Spoits
