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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF TURFJ J E Widener has sent three mares from France to England to be mated with English stallions stallionsThe The Prince of Wales at Chipping Warden Maren 4 rode a hunter in the Grenadier Guards point topoint race and did not win winMajor Major Hugh Peel has great hopes of Poethlyn standing training again The Xational winner is at present being used as a hack and road work is getting the horses leg hard and callous callousThe The news from Maryland that the Loft Ilirsch horses were at Havre de Grace was not news at all Both stables are at Helmont Park and will not go to Maryland until early In April AprilQuite Quite a few of the horses at Belmont Park probably on account of recent sharp changes in weather are coughing The stables most affected are those of Max Hirsch G W Loft and R T Wilson WilsonA A H Hancocks filly Embassy a granddaughter of Sceptre has been sent to be mated with Volta She is at present at Ix rd Carnarvons stud Volta is owned by the Carnarvon establishment at Illgh cleve in Berkshire and is by Valens Agues Velas ¬ quez quezA A queer betting angle recently turned up in Eng ¬ land G A Prentice a Canadian sportsman who recently died bet 5000 on Cornsack to win and for a place in the Lincolnshire Handicap The bet was booked for Prentice who often bet for J B Joel but was repudiated after Prentices death and therefore voided The queeruess about the transac ¬ tion is the news comment
