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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Reports from the east say that Tom Welsh may train the A. K. Macomber horses next year. Tin: leading jockey in the Argentine Republic is a South American named 1. Torterala. He is not only a good rider, but an excellent horseman and judge of pace. Walter Miller, the American ex-jockey, whose arrival in Paris has already been recorded, is posing as a great billiard player, especially at the three-cushion carom game. He has challenged Curie, the French champion. Emil Herz has sold the tliree-year-old War Spirit; bv Vulcain Thirty-third, to W. V. Thraves at a reported orice of 2,000. War Spirit is eligible to tlie Latonia Championship Stakes and is being especially prepared for that race. A. It. Hancock has purchased from W. T. Anderson the brown mare Star Gift, 10. by Star Shoot Carlotta C. and her suckling brown colt by Wrack; also the chestnut mare Royal Message, 10. by Star Shoot lrinzessin, and her suckling chestnut colt by Jim Gaffney. A big racing revival is taking place in Roumania. A ten-dav meeting was held at Itaneasea in September, for which the total stake money amounted to more than 20,000. I-argo sums are to be spent in the foundation of new studs aud the importation of foreign horses. Improvements at Laurel include the painting of the grandstand, a new trainers and. owners stand, a covered walk from tlie train to the grandstand, a new walk from the judges stand to the paddock and jockeys rooms, eliminating having to go through the crowds, the track thrown up four feet to one side and new top dressing over the. entire course,
