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TURF NOTES FROM LANDS ABROAD Fred Davis the jockey has returned to England after being interned in Germany four and a half years He was second in the winning jockey list in that country in 1914 and rode sixty winners during his apprenticeship apprenticeshipWriting Writing of small race horses it may be men ¬ tioned that Little Wonder which won the Derby was only 143X and Daniel ORourke was a Colossus of 143 when he carried off the blue riband There is a tradition in the old world Sussex village of Findon that as a foal Little Wonder was brought up on milk in the kitchen of a laborers cottage The AVimiing Post PostIt It is announced that the price of private boxes nt Ascot lias been raised from ten guineas to fif ¬ teen guineas They could easily have been raised to twenty five guineas and all sold As it is a large trade is done by the favored ones who obtain these boxes at the original price whereas if their true value was fixed this would hot occur and society on holiday might further subscribe to an extra race In any case owners of horses should be given the first option of purchase Manchester Sporting Chronicle ChronicleHera Hera a bay filly by Javelin Diving Bell which won the mile 1remlo Diana at Rio de Janeiro in October lust was bred by Mrs Craddock at the Loiind Hall Stud and foaled May 1 1910 Heras performance is a creditable one inasmuch as al ¬ though classed ns a threeyearold according to Brazilian time she was a year younger on English reckoning All the three yearlings Mrs Craddock sold in 1917 are now winners the other wir being Polenta and Miss Glad Eyes Diving Bell has a good twoyearold by Black Jester now in training named Black BBSS and is this year In foal to Friar I Marcus while her next mate will probably be the Two Thousand and Derby winner Sunstar Audax in Horse and Hound
