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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Captain Press of Ottawa, Out., is negotiating for the purchase of the crack Irish three-year old Iron Cross. Walter House will have Pimlieo May 15 for Belmont lark. He will take his own horses and those of one or two other trainers having small strings. The two-year old Hollingcr. which trainer Al Austin brought to Woodbine on Wednesday, is a brother to llorron, and is owned by Douat Raymond of Montreal. .lames Rowe is expected in Louisville Tuesday with EL 1*. Whitneys Kentucky Derby candidates Rickety. Hwfa. Tumbler and Kellriiiger. All an said to he in good condition. Sandy McNaughtoii and Max Hirseh have decided to leave Iim.ico ;i few days before the end of the meetini;. They have contracted for transportation to Kclmont. Park, where they hope to arrive about May 14. W. R. Coos horses, which had been down south for some months, are now being quartered in his big training barn at Kelinont Iark. Jerry Carroll arrived from Kentucky early this week with the string of eight. Oovernor A. O. Stanley of Kentucky has signed the Schneider race track bill and it now is o| era -five. 1nder its terms the management will ho required to pay a daily state license tax of 00 lor race meetings at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park, Louisville and at Latoniu, and 00 a day at the Lexington track. Walter Jennings has engaged three big steel cars to take a big consignment of A. K. Macombers horses to Belmont Park. John Whalen has contracted for three of the big steel horse cars and one of the end-door steel cars of the Adams Express Company, to take to Belmont Park an automobile and other belongings of the Corrigan de Mc-Kinney stable. These cars will be sent to the Jamaica track May 14.
