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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF C. Duggan, under contract to W. Walker, is the leading rider at Tijuana. Although ten years old Back Bay is still able to win, having ten victories to his credit this year. W. "Red" Walker claimed Chow at Tijuana from N. S. Vail and the latter retaliated by claiming Cork. C. B. Irwin, who was the leading owner at Tijuana last year, bids fair to repeat again, at least he is leading at present. Flowershop. by Alcantara Sunflower. Baron Ed. de Rothschilds great three-year-old filly, has been retired to Ids stud at Meautry. Over one hundred jockeys have assembled at New Orleans and new apprentices are llie rule daily and are securing licenses on application. Daniel Devereaux of Lexington, Ky., has sold to Stone and Rucker of Georgetown the Handsel iiiare Nancy Hogan and her weanling bay colt by Iataud. The chestnut colt Irish Sea, by Celt Sand Dune, by Rock Sand cost 2,500 as a yearling in 1919 and started in Men races this year without winning ence. H. J. Brown of Portland, Maine, has renewed the contract witli John Wilson Townsend whereby the French horse Iataud is to continue in the stud at Graceland Farm, Kentucky, for the season I of 1021. I Old trainer Charles Hughes, with thirteen of E. W. Simms fillies, is still at Saratoga, reveling in I what he terms the "Adirondacks balm." This he esteems so highly that lie expects to winter in it with great enjoyment. The young jockeys William and Arthur Balding have bought a farm at Hatfield, Doncaster, for 1,000, and given it to their father, Robert Balding, a yeoman farmer. At Thryburgh, Rother-hani, where they were born, their father, who was a keen man on racing, kept an old hunter for the purpose of teaching the boys to ride.
