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r CURRENT NOTES 0F TH E TUR F Frank Farrar has turned Encrinitc and two others out at- Havre de Grace for the winter. The steepieehase obstacles at Pimlico have been rebuilt and rebrushed and the course itself is in excellent condition for the coming meeting. Mose Goldblatt will have one of the largest stables at Havana this coming winter. He will take about fourteen of his own horges and have charge of about ten belonging to H. P. Whitney. ";-r G. W. Wingfield will send a string of his horses to race at Tijuana during the meeting which opens there on Thanksgiving Day. Itacing associations in -England get off cheaply. On the big day:, of th-i Lingfiold-London District meeting iii August the stakes value .was 0,500, but it cost tiie association , but ,063... bivners provided the balance; : Archibald, the American jockey, lias been obliged to abandon some promising mounts, not having received; his passport for" France, in time. His chief object. in going;, to Parirf va. to ride the Spanish horse. Nouvel An in the Prix de, lArc de Triomphe. Barkcoinew rode the horse, which finished fourth, beaten a length and two heads. C. E. Brossman, turf writer, critic and former owner of the great race mare Imp, says that Spendthrift, the sire of Hastings, the latter the sire of Fair Play, the sire of Man o War, was a great race horse and a great sire, yet none of his descendants can be registered in the English Stud Book.
