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« CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Max Haraeb, trainer for Oorge W. Loft, who also races a large stable of his own on Eastern tracks, will soon pay his annuai visit to Kentucky breeding farm. In the last si years the Sledmere yearlings of Sir Mark Sykes. and later his widow, have sold for, some * 1.300. fsio: three Blue Tit yearlings alone bringing SUo.OOO. Americans get into racing whereer they abide. George Rolph. ■ former Chicagoaii, is in business and racing at Sydney, N. S. W.. Au-tralia. Mr. Rolph won two races at the Mentoue meeting in December with Amatol, a two-year-old great grandson of Carbine. Amatol is by Gunpowder— Mary Campbell, aDd a pretty shifty sort of a youngster. W. H. Mcl achlau, one of the bast of Australian riders, is going to join the jockey colony of his countrymen in England in the spring. He tried the experiment once l efore and retired. But the success of Wootton. Carslake, Gray. Bullock and other Antipodean riders has induced McLachlan to try again. He is classed above the riders who have succeeded iu tiogjand by Australian judges,
