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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Jockey Albert Johnson is taking a much needed rest at Hot Springs. He will ride at Oaklawn Park; when racing begins there, after the conclusion of the. New Orleans meeting. Victor E. Schaumburg, secretary of the Empire City Racing Association, lias recovered from the illness which, kept him confined to his home for a considerable length of time. He will soon announce the list of stakes to be decided at the Yonkers course next summer. Walter J. Salmon has named one of his best two-year-olds Eddie Rickenbacker, after the famous American ace and aut6mobile driver. This colt is a soil of The Manager Caution and is one that Mr. Salmon purchased at the Major T. C. McDowell -sale at Saratoga last August. John R. Sentry, sole survivor of the greatest galaxy of pacers that the turf has ever seen, celebrated his thirtieth birthday January 1 by going a mile in harness- over the old battle ground at Cumberland Park, Nashville, Tenn., driven by his veteran admirer, Rensselaer Weston of New York. W. F. Knehelkamp is said to have a promising two-year-old in his stable at..New Orleans in Pop Eyes, for .which, Knehelkamp paid 0 as a year-ling. Pop Eyes ifc by Ivan the Terrible "Sweet Day, and was bred by W. W. Darden at his farm near Nashville, Tenn. Ivan the Terrible sired such good horses as. Hodge nnd Little Father, and one peculiarity of liis progeny is that they can run equally as weli in the mud as on it dry track.
