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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Entries to the Pimlico fall stakes close next Wednesday. The stable or G. W. Loft, trained by M. Hirsch, has arrived at Laurel A. Hooker has taken over the .7. J. Maher racers, which include Old Koenig, Iraa Prank and other good ones. The date for the running of the Latonia Championship has not been definitely decided upon, Manager "Winn reserving his decision until . the dates for the world series baseball games are announced. It. K. Watkins good three-year-old colt Ticklish was badly cut down in his last race, a small artery below the knee having been severed. It will be some time before he will be able to stand training again. The horses of Commander .t. K. L. Itoss have already won over .50,000 in stakes and purses during the present year, and witli so many valuable stakes yet to be decided at Laurel and Pimlico his total for 1910 m:fy "surpass the 00,000 mark. Dr. Robert Hanley. a well-known Canadian physician n ml turfman, who raced a small stable of horses for a number of years in Canada, this country and Cuba, died last Thursday at the Hotel Dieu in Kingston after an operation for appendicitis. Three of the John Sanford racers, now in charge of Preston lSureh. will be retired to the Ilurricana Farm at the close of the fall season, while Achilles, the fourth member of the string, will be sold. The other three are Alphee, La Iielle Helene and Pontypridd. All are fillies and valuable as brood mares. The efforts of the King of Spain on behalf of the breeding industry are bearing good fruit. Two two-year-olds of his own breeding are winning good races. They are Willoro. by Wilonyx, and Mistake, by Littleton, both English sires. Hitherto the chief prizes in Spain have been carried off by imported horses. A. K. Macomber will sell the following six two-year-olds next Thursday at Aqueduct: Arrowhead, b. g, by Uncle--Xarco; Itabylonian, eh. g. by Uncle List Cherry; The Archer, b. g. by Uncle ISusy Lass; The Nephew, b. g, by Uncle Qualify; Challenger, cli. g. by Uncle Star Dreamer; The Lamb, h. g. by IiicL- Winifred A. Ncddnm is a pretty shifty youngster and justifies John K. Maddens early estimate of him. The son of Ormouilaie Miss Kearney fetched ,100 as a yearling and so far has won five of seven races the last four without a defeat and ,581;. JIp gave great promise on the farm and was thus given Maddens own name spelled backward. It is said in support of the health of the Maryland mutuels hat "P.uck" Pot-man bet 00 on Hapld Day in the machines last Friday. Rapid Day beat. Be Prank in the race, the league IlaniH-oap. and each ticket paid 1.S0. Thus the 00 won 1919.sh,180, an almost impossible yield under the bookmakiug system of speculation., no mutter what the number o operators,
