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- ♦ CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Jockey William Gearley. who has beea out of toe saddle for ahoal two year-, t apectl to resume rid in;. next spring i present Gouricy and his wife .ire on Ihe vaudeville circuit. Signonno was the most saccesefel sire in Italy last en. Ids produce wiaaiag 1 .iio-t»-i lire, followed by tally English I with 974.8TO lire and sir Archibald tiinglishi with Bio.»"0 Bra Cunt Boss, a four year-obi horse by Rosaeadah Yellow Hands sire, won tee Scotch Uiuarkshire Handicap, one and one half miles, recently. As he had IM pounds up he must be aae fat The gr-at New Zealand three -yi ar-old Mc-rinui !:a beea bought for Indian racing by M. Axasia. a rich Bombay merchant, and he is to lie trained with the IJ82 King Emperors and Viceroys Cup racers. In the north of Kngland. when- foot racing flout ish,.s. the time of each event is taken in decimals of the lilt aad. sack as P.-.710 for UB yards. Fifth of seconds are not close enough for such contention. The mutuei or totalizator volume of Ihe lour day- November meeting of the great Australian c-ourre of Bandwick at Sydney. N. S. W. worked out a total of S1.6X4.70. . as compared witli .8_0 in 19J0 and . 371. 750 in 1919. "Bud" Fisher has twelve two year-olds at Leaia ville. five fillies and seven ddts. The Broomstick —Embroidery filly named Brocade, and Hyperion, a bay colt by Sr.nstar — Melrique. iiy Meddler, are considered the most promising of the band. The 100.000 fran.- Grand Prix de Bruxelles of 192L. for international three-year-olds at IM ami three-eighths miles, to be run at Boitsfort May 7. drew ninety-four entries. Forty-five are Belgian trained, thirty-three French, ten English and six •Spanish. The record field of starters in a race in any c-ouniry is that of the Goodwood Cup of 18» 1 in England, when forty-five horses started, at three quarters of a mile. Croagh Patrick won it. In the Chester Cup race of 1832 Joe Miller beat forty-two other horses. Periosteum. 5, by Itadium — Persicara, for which an offer of ,000 was refused at auction in Eng land, only cost his owner ,300 as a yearling. Periosteum .won the Ascot Gold Cup of 8,400. Queen Handicap of .4r« and Great Northern Han Uitay of fMal in a row,
