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j FOREIGN TURF NOTES $ Mr. John Johnstone, a member of the English National Hunt Committee, breeder and owner of race horses, as well as a capable amateur rider, died Tuesday, March 12. The Hungarian-bred Saturn, a now three-year-old son of imported Santorb and Sybil, by Pazman, is considered a possibility for the Austro-Hungarian classic races of 1935. He is now under the care of George Hitch, one of the ablest Hungarian professionals, who prepared Starlight, by Grand Parade and Tempo, by Tamar, for their classic engagements. The filly captured the Hungarian Oaks, Derby, and St. Leger of 1931, and the colt scored in the Hungarian Derby of the following year. Rod and Gun, which won the National Hunt Steeplechase at Cheltenham, Wednesday, March 14, a race confined to maidens at closing January 1, for Mr. John H. Whitney, had run many times under National Hunt Rules. Bred by Mrs. C. T. Vandeleur, and foaled- in 1927, he is a bay gelding by Fly Fisher, from Heather Bloom, by Dun-more, which was purchased privately in Ireland as a three-year-old. This is the" sec- jH ond time Mr. Whitney has won this race, Sir Lindsay, ridden by Lord Fingall, having scored from a big field in 1930. An unusual incident occurred to the brood mare Happy Climax when in transit from Holyhead to the Brook Stud, Cheveley, near Newmarket. She was in foal to the 1928 Two Thousand Guineas victor Flamingo, and on her arrival at Newmarket it was found that she had dropped a colt in the horse box which was attached to a passenger train. Neither mare nor foal was any the worse for the experience. Twenty Grand, the American-bred son of St. Germans, belonging to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, arrived in London .from America on Monday, March 18, and was sent on to Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochforts stables at Freemason Lodge, Newmarket. The stallion Teacup, by Tetratema Saucer, has been sold by the Aga Khan to Count Mario Tolomei, and is standing at his new owners Pescaia Stud in Tuscany. The first produce of Teacup are now three-year-olds, and two of them have won selling races as youngsters. The Australian jockey, Walter Sibbritt, has arrived in France from India, where his services were in great demand throughout the winter. Towards the end of the season there he replaced Walker, another Australian jockey, who returned to his native country, as first jockey to the Maharajah of Kashmir, for whom he rode four winners in one afternoon. Marcel Boussacs three-year-old filly, Corrida, the good daughter of Coronach, who wonthe Prix Morny and ran second in the Grand Criterium as a two-year-old in France last year, is now under the care of George Lambton at Newmarket, where she is to be prepared for the One Thousand Guineas. Her absence removes a serious rival to Lord Derbys Pharos filly, The Nile, in the French One Thousand and the French Oaks. - Major Ralph Crawford died on March 8,-aged seventy-four, at hisresidence, Stanton Fence, Morpeth. He was a well known figure at Doncaster thoroughbred yearling sales, and had bred yearlings for sale with the late Henry Annett of Widrington for many years. He had the reputation of having attended fifty St. Legers, and dearly loved a good horse.
