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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF The record return of parimutncl tickets in France is that over 1 Manche which paid li 7 to 1 ajs a winner and Ii to 1 for the place placeJockey Jockey King Lapaille of Louisville who has been galloping horses all whiter for Dick Brooks has been engaged to ride for Miller Henderson during the coming racing season in Kentucky KentuckyThe The Cuban clocks have not been advanced an hour under the daylight saving regulation and in conser quence the first race is run there at the old time which makes racing begin in Havana at 3 oclock Chicago time timeThere There are at present standing as public sires at Concord Cal three registered desert Arabian sires El Jafil ten years and 14 hands his sons El Sakab four years Iti hands and El Sabok three years and 153 hands handsAVhen AVhen Night Hawk the St Leger winner of 1913 which was sold in Kngland to Australia landed at Sydney New South AVales November 0 he had been thirteen weeks on the voyage Vet the horse arrived in good health healthThere There was a time when the weights for the Eng ¬ lish Grand National were on a considerably lower scale than at present and it is on record that the late John Niglitiugall father of AVilliam and Arthur Nightingall once rode in the race weighing out at llJ pounds poundsEdward Edward Smoot of Petersburg 111 wellknown breeder of thoroughbred horses committed suicide at a hotel in Springfield 111 yesterday Poor health and grief over the loss of bis son who was with the American Army in France are given as reasons for the act
