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1 FOREIGN TURF NOTES : There is a good-looking horse named Royal Flush racing in England this year, but according to a well-known turf scribe, "he never will be as good as his namesake, which won for the American sportsman, Bet You Million Drake a fortune estimated at almost a million when he carried off the Royal Hunt Cup many years ago." An important consignment of race horses was shipped from London on May 11 to India. The shipment included five horses for the Maharajah of Kashmir, among them Light Sussex, winner of the City and Suburban Handicap; Swift Reynard, winner of the Wood Ditton Stakes, and the good French colt Rentenmark. The Stewards Plate at Kempton Park, May 10, produced a fine contest, with C. Jarvis Old Folk winner after a spirited finish. "Togo" Johnstone, the Australian jockey, rode three winners in France at Le Trem-blay on May 11. One of his winning mounts was Assuerus, entered in the English Coronation Cup and Ascot Gold Cup. J. H. "Jock" Whitneys good steeplechaser Thomond II. is back in training again after a seaside rest since finishing third in the Grand National. The Prix de Jubile de sa Majeste George "V., in honor of the jubilee of the English king, will be run at Longchamps, France, during the night racing on July 6. The Kempton Park Great Jubilee Handicap, run on May 11, was one of the finest races witnessed, this year in England. It resulted in a dead heat between Wychwood Abbot and British Quita after a spirited contest, in which the last mentioned made a sensational closing rush that just failed to bring victory. The mile and a quarter was run in the fast time of 2:02.
