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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF W. S. Kilmer has seventeeu sons and daughters i of his crack racer Sun Briar entered for the 0,000 i BelmoTit Stakes, to be ruu in 1924. The youngsters i will then be three-year-olds. Morvich. the unbeaten and champion two-year-old I of 1921. is among the entries for the Suburban and ■ Metropolitan Handicaps, to be run at Belmont Park during the 1922 spring meeting. The New Zealand jockey H. Oray. who did well in Knglan.l last year and i a good horseman and is now at home, is to return. He is to ride in Baglaad again this year, but eventually will take up training there. James A. McCreery. one of the old-time American trainers and father of Lieutenant Thomas |.l n-pvy . who rode in several of the army races on metropolitan courses last summer, is reported seriously ill at his home in Oceanport, X. J. The Australian sire Maltster, now twenty-four years old. by Bill of Dor Hand —Barley, by Bar-ealdine, is near the end of a fine career as a stock horse. He has headed the list for six seasons with progeny to earn .3. 0,000 in fifteen years service. Australian bookmakers are wailing because the I recently imposed duty on bets causes them to bar the small investors, of which there are an immense number in the colony. The small bookmaker suffers most because the duty is the same on the f2 ! ticket as on that of 00.
