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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Mose Lowenstein has decided on retiring Fluzey until winter and has shipped her from Saratoga with five yearlings to Lexington. The Australian Jockey Club distributed 94,015 in eighty-six races run at its meeting this year. This is an average of nearly ,740 a race. T. C. McDowell of Lexington, Ky., has purchased the chestnut yearling colt by Ballot Tally Hoo II., by St. Bris, from Duncan C. Minor fcr 00. At the Ascot, Sydney district, course in Australia, June 30, racing began at 10:30 in the morning and seventeen races were on the program. The two best Irish two-year-olds this year are Belsize and Bucksie. Belsize is a chestnut by Cap-tivation Chancery and Bucksie a bay by Louvois Buckle. Tryst, the dam of Tryster, H. P. Whitneys good two-year-old, undefeated, never meed and was bred as a three-year-old, Tryster being her first foal. There was no entrance fee charged this year for the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire Handicaps at Newmarket. The entries, however, were no larger than usual. M. E. Thompson of Lexington has purchased- the roan filly Lady Hester, 4, by Harrigan Hester Zorra. by Cesarion, from Creech and Davison. Creech will continue to train her. Spring Maid, ten years old, by Dick Welles Flash of Lightning, has joined the matrons at Thomas Piatts breeding farm near Lexington, Ky. Spring Maid is the dam of Uncle John. The Michigan Fair Circuit, which will open with races at Owosso August 24, will afford a chance for ordinary thoroughbreds to win purses of from 50 to 00 at distances ranging from one-half to one mile. The syndicate of Irish breeders which paid 25.-000 for Charles OMalley and intend to use him only for their own studs is made up of the Marchioness Conyngliani and Messrs. James Daly, J. U. II. Peard, W. It. 1urefoy, D. O. M. Leahy, E. Bellaney and T. K. Laidlaw. Lucknow, the Australian handicap horse, by Minoru Amphora, which won the Caulfield Cup last year, has been bought by J. II. Aldridge of the Richmond Park Stud in South Australia and goes there as a sire. He was bred in England and was a first-class nice horse in the Colonies. . ,
