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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Jockey Harry Thurber has been engaged to ride for the stable that John S Ward is training trainingThe The Thorncliffe string of eleven horses will shortly be moved from their winter quarters to the AVood bine Park track trackFrank Frank Taylor has five head of the Hallenbeck horses at Aqueduct including Kashmir loung Adam and Salvestra SalvestraBottequin Bottequin the French jockey has just married Mary Booty daughter of the old English cross ¬ country rider Henry Booty BootyThe The AVoodland Stock Farm has five horses at Aqueduct in charge of Edward Billings These are horses that have wintered in New Jersey JerseyWord Word from Toronto is to the effect that the number of horses at AVoodbine Park is rapidly in ¬ creasing and that the course and its surroundings are being made ready for racing racingMeetings Meetings at Ostend Belgium have been fixed for July 20 21 27 28 August 3 4 10 11 15 17 24 25 and 31 On tho last date there will be a Grand Prix dOstende worth 25000 25000This This years winner of the English Grand National Pocthlyn is an extremely safe jumper In all his twentyfive steeplechase races lie has only fallen twice once in 1914 and once in 191C 191CRacing Racing is once more in full swing in Germany On three courses near Berlin alone at Grunewald Ruhleben and Mariendorf there will be seventy one days racing between April 1 and the end of the year yearAn An Arabian sportsman Emir Feisnl will transfer his racing stable to France The horses have reached Paris and will be trained there The Emir hopes to be able to enter some of them in the Grand Prix and other French races racesCinderella Cinderella mother of Hastings and Plaudit was sold in England for exportation to America for 105 after her sire Tomahawk had won the Lin ¬ colnshire Handicap in the largest field thirty five horses that ever started for that event eventQuite Quite a few trainers of the more pretentious eastern racing stables are planning to begin their 1919 campaign at Havre de Grace as is evidenced by the recent departures of a number of stables from the Long Island tracks bound for the liar ford course courseThe The issue of permits for the importation of horsps into Canada will be restricted to animals coming from the British isles The authorities in Canada request that even precaution may be taken to avoid any material which is likely to carry disease beiiig sent out with horses horsesNearly Nearly all the English horses in training are extremely backward ami the Newmarket corre ¬ spondent of the Sportsman writes There never was a year in my recollection when less was known of our twoyearolds and I question if their owners anil trainers are much more enlightened with regard to their capabilities han are the wen of oboerva
