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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Harry Morrissey will again officiate as starter at the coming winter meeting at Tijuana. Bob Smith, with his Sunuyland Stable of good horses, including Slippery Elm" arid Irish Kiss, is among the owners who will campaign at Tijuana the coming winter. Eastern horsemen intending to race at New Or--leans during the coming winter have joined their Kentucky brethen in a demand for increased purses at the. Fair Grounds meetingi The sale of J. W. McClellands Sailor, by All Gold Boisterous, by Hamburg; to James Mclntyre. the jockey, was to Mr. Rene Wuhrman of Toronto. Ont. Mclntyre was merely the purchasing agent. It is "stated that a prominent owner who took an initial bet in one hand of 00,000 to ,000 about Bracket for the Cesarewitch early in the autumn won 50,000 over the race. London Sportsman. The skeleton of Eclipse, the. most famous race horse in all history, is about to be exhibited in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, London. It is being lent by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. There has been added to the Marshall Field English stable the brown yearling filly Maize, by Golden Sun Corn Cockle, ,by St. Frusqutn, for which J. Boyd Rockford paid ,000 to Captain R. .B. Brassey, her breeder. W. R. Midgely, J. D Nash, T. J. Shannon and jockey C. Falrbrother were victims of an automobile accident Thursday morning when on their way from Jamaica to the Empire City track. Willie on the Queensborough bridge a government truck skidded into the car drive-n by Mr. Midgely and injured both Mr. Midgely and J. D. Nash to sucli an extent that they were taken to a hospital. Mr. Shannon escaped with a slight shaking up, but jockey Fairbrother was so badly bruised he had to cancel his riding engagements at the Empire City, course for that day.
