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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF J On Watch, which won the Queen City Handicap at Latonia, has been returned to Laurel. . The program book for the nine days of racing at Churchill Downs was distributed to owners at Latonia. The arrangement is the iisual diversified one, suitable to all sorts of racers, and there will be no lack of material. The Tetrarchs quarters are at the Ballyhiach Stud, Kilkenny County, Ireland,- where Rising Glass also abides. It was at this stud that the 7,500 Swynford Blue Tit colt was foalejd. Guy Garner, the American jockey in France, who is riding the horses of the big Eknuynn stable on the Parisian courses, has been engaged for next season by J. K. Mncomber, who has altogether bought 00,000 wortli of French yearlings this year. The 1018 English champion, Oulnsborougn, lws been established at his regulav quarters. Lady James Douglas stud at Hurwood, Newbury, Berkshire. Bayuda, the Oaks winner,, has also been retired and la ut the same establishment. She is to be tired to Hurry On, by Marcovil Tout Sutte, by Sainfoin. Don Ignacis Coreen, the present owner of Diamond Jubilee, is contemplating a trip to Europe from the Argentine, with u view to purchasing a station to supersede the famous 1900 Epsom Derby winner, which is getting old, though he produced twenty-eight winners of 2,500 during the first half of the 1919 racing season in Argentina. Tlie handicapping and "splitting" of entries at Havajia next winter will be done by a board of three made up of the presiding steward, presiding judge and racing secretary, who will be the same officials as served hist year, namely, C. J. Fitz Gerald, W. II. Shelley and Martin Natlianson respectively. An inmate of the Sunderland, England, lunatic asylum named in advance the first, second and third horses in the Derby, and also Avon a large lU-ize offered by a weekly newspaiier. "I tipped Crrand Parade," he said to the medical suiierin-t endent, "because it was of good stock, Buchan b.yeause it had a good trainer and Paper Mouey ba-anse It had the best Jockey. Strangely enough, th man is still In confinement.
