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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF The Belgian racing authorities have passed a measure forbidding the use of whips by apprentices apprenticesThe The Belmont Park training grounds arc in gocd condition and horses have been galloping along in the fashion usual in April AprilAVhcn AVhcn Tod Sloan was riding at the top of his form he never scaled more than 102 pounds and never had to go on the road or reduce in any other manner Jockey L McAtee is riding the horses of the P A Clark stable under Jack McCormick at Belmont Park and will probably ride them in the races this year yearThe The Ascot Gold Cup winner By Jingo is standing at the Burton Agnes Stud Sheffield England and among the mares already booked to him is Grand Gcrahline the dam of the Deicby winner Grand Parade ParadeJockey Jockey Ensor is hard at work at Belmont Park assisting T J Healey in training work As stated some weeks ago Ensor has signed contracts to ride first call for R T AVilson and second call for John Sanford SanfordA A French thoroughbred which went all through the Avar with a cavalry regiment has after being dcmobilied won seven races in succession in the space of five weeks He is called Le Petit Mos sicii and belongs to Capt Felix Petit PetitBayodce Bayodce a sevenyearold horse by Bayardo Cheshire Cat by Tarporley which sold for 7800 as a yearling was recently sold at auction in Lon ¬ don for li He is a halfbrother to the good English handicap horse Scatwell by Marcovil now in India IndiaIt It is likely that K Parrington the Toronto boy nnd a brother to Tommy Parrington jockey will do most of the riding for the GlddingsBrenner combination this year lie demonstrated last year that he has the earmarks of a rider and will be given a further opportunity opportunityThe The death is announced of the wellknown French sportsman M Petit le Roy He was keen on racing and securing Malgache from a claiming race won a scries of events which would have culminated in a victory in the Grand Prix de Dcau ville but for tin intervention of Le Sancy SancyThe The death has taken place in France of Mr Charles James Spencer a wellknown sportsman at the age of 19 He was for 22 years sporting correspondent to the Paris newspaper Le Jockey secretary to the trainers and jockeys club of Lanor laye and handicapper for the pigeon shooting club of Chantilly Mr Spencer founded the I morlaye Corinthians Football Club in which Steve Donoghue played centerforward
