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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF One of the recently completed improvements at Pimlico is a covered runway from the grandstand to the pari-mttttiel machines. Greyhound racing coursing now holds sway at the old Emerysville track in California, where once the noble thoroughbred reigned supreme. W. C. Weant lost the horse Iolite en route to Tijuana. The horse contracted car fever and had to he unloaded at Tuscan, Arizona, where he died of pneumonia. Australia doesnt encourage light weight riders. In the Melbourne district only one 96-pound boy, W, Crockett, is licensed and only five- of the rest can ride at 100 pounds. Entries for the National Horse Show, to be held sit Madison Square Garden, New York, from November 15 to November 20 inclusive, have exceeded those of any year since 1913, the total number being 1824. The prize race of the Argentine, the Prix Bel-grano, value S7.500 added, about one and five-eighth miles, was run at Buenos Aires September 26. and was won by Fair Play. b. c, 4, by Your. Mnjesty Perita, by Pietermafitzburg. Probably the handsomest thoroughbred ever bred and raised at Napa Stock Farm is a strapping chestnut colt by Runnymede, dam the Salvation mare Salvatrix. He has height, length, noble forehead, bone; substance in fact, everything a high-class race horse should possess. English turf critics predict a fine future for a lightweight apprentice rider, G. Speck, who is attached to H. Eseotts establishment. He recently rode two winners in one day at Newbury and old-timers consider that he recalls George Fordhani to them in that great jockeys youthful days. Questipnnaire, the stallion recently donated by Edward Arlington to the Breeding Bureau of The Jockey Club and in turn passed on to the federal government, was inspected by Major C. L. Scott of the Remount Service and pronounced .an ideal type. The big stallion will be sent to Front Royal, Va;, Within a few days. The United States government will be represented in the thoroughbred classes at the coming "National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden by three of the best stallions in its- service. These will be -Greek Legend, by Polymelus; Ganadore and Zenith, the" latter by Ogden. All are" more than sixteen hands in height aud weigh more than 1,200 pounds.
