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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF The Danish Derby, run for at Copenhagen, was won by M. Schulstads Lady Skip, an English daughter of Admiral Hawke and Skip. All Phil Chinns Himyar Stud horses, mares and youngsters are to be sold :it Saratoga next month. The buoyant, Colonel will then retire for a while. The well-known Australian cross-country jockey of Portuguese extraction, Auselmo Martinez, was killed last month by a fall in a race at the Flem-iugtou course of Melbourne, Australia. A fine old Australian jockey, John Stevenson, has been, killed as the result of a railway accident. In 1SU5 he won the Melbourne Cup, the Oaks and the South Australian Derby on Aurarhi. It turns out that the sudden death of "Humorist, the Epsom Derby winner, was caused by the bursting of a blood vessel. His body has been interred under a shaft at Childwickbury, the Joel Stud. There are loud calls on the other side for a cut in the fees of half a dozen ,000 priced sires. None but two are accounted as worth nearly tliat amount. The one or two are Sunstar and The Tet-rarch. The New Zealand record holding five-year-old Surveyor, whose half mile in 45 as a two. year-old is the fastest on record for the world, has -gone wrong all around and has been retired. He. i by Nassau Pedometer., As a three -year-old ijjirveyor was only beaten a. head by Cetlgne wheji hi made the Australasian mile race record of 1:37.
