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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF The New Zealand Oaks was won by J B Reids Punka and the Metropolitan Handicap by W E Bidwills Devotion DevotionEd Ed Arlingtons speedy filly KohiNoor is in training itOriental Park for the Christmas Handi ¬ cap the first of the stake events to be run in Cuba this winter winterAt At the meeting at MaisonsLafitte Paris on November 10 C Hawkins tlie English steeplechase jockey had four mounts and was successful on three of them themWinning Winning Sires in Nejv Zealand this year were Martian 19900 Finland G7750 Demosthenes S4370 Hymettus 43535 Multifid dead 41 525 Boniform 37650 and All Black 33955 T Rice the Chicago jockey now at New Orleans has signed to ride for the Quincy Stable of New York next year Rice rides at about 109 pounds andhas3i2 mounts and thirtynine wins so far this year G Walls will again do the Jight weight rid ¬ ing for the same stable stableTlie Tlie turf corresDondent of the Weekly Dispatch supports the view so often expressed by The Sports ¬ man that the installation of tlie parimutuel in this country is impossible He writes that he has au ¬ thority for saying that racegoers will see no such system organized under the chancellorship of Mr Bonar Law The Sportsman
