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RACING GOSSIP GOSSIPIt Gossip It will not be much of a surprise to see Barney Sclireiber Schreiber booking in his own magnetic way at the Indiana tracks before long The sport at St Louis is not what it should be Bad hand ¬ ling of good material is the reason The racing in Indiana is growing better every day and the growth will bo sharper from now on The man ¬ agement argument of a race track the stalls of which shelter highclass highlands horses should cater to such turf tools If its programme programmed is badly made specials can bo injected As with the merchant so with the turfman Truman The 50000 investment is entitled to earn five times as much as that of 10000 supposing of course that stable non sagacity doesnt doesn't handicap its own The racing at St Louis is too common for what equine goods the Fair Grounds has on hand Unless the caterer changes his plans the meeting which ought to bo a superb one will grade off and almost fail The leading winner among the Oakley Ankle owners up to the end of last week was Byron McClel Cycle ¬ land who is holding his own He has won some 15000 including the Derby and Losanta Lasagna ville vile Stakes with Prince Lief Leif and Caesarian CaesarianWill Caesarian Will Wallace also has won two stakes the Liberty and the Cincinnati Press and these with nine ordinary purses swell the earnings of his string to 6865 M F Dwyer is third on the list with 4500 as his stables earnings Mr Dwyer has won only one stake the Sapphire taken by Cleophus Cloths but second and third mon ¬ eys eyes in the Derby amounted to 2200 in addition to which he has won two purse races J M Murphy comes next Souffles Oaks and her sec ¬ ond bond to Ida Pickwick Picklock netting the genial turf correspondent 4070 The Avondale Stable has one stake the Memorial won by Ida Pickwick Picklock on Decoration Day and with one handicap two other purse races and some seconds and thirds the winnings of that string amount to 3490 The five named have won all the stakes so far farThe farther The otners toners that have won as much as 1000 with the number of races won by each are as follows Scoggan Slogan Bros Brows 4 races 1570 T C McDowell 3 1230 Springhurst Springhouse Stable 4 1230 Baker Gentry 3 1200 W H Laudeman Laundryman 2 1040 Oakley Ankle Stable 3 1040 A dozen others have secured between 500 and 1000 each as follows CTPatterson Tapsters 996 W T Woodard Woodward Jr 930 C J Kelly 810 Eastin Easton Larrabie Laramie 780 E F McLean CLean 750 W L Simmons 730 T P Hayes 4 720 E FElkins Felines 670 Waideck Wade Stable 670 E Corrigan 630 Ireland Bros Brows 540 D R Harmess Harmless 530 Tbe Tube Coney Island Jockey Club announces the dates set for the principal events at its meeting as follows followsOn follows On Tuesday June 23 the opening day the Double Event for 2yearolds with 5000 added and the Suburban for all ages with 7500 added Wednesday Juno 24 the Daisy for 2 yearolds earls 1500 added and the Swift for 3year olds 2000 adde added J Thursday Juno 25 the Grass Inaugural 1500 added Saturday June 27 the Zephyr Stakes for 2yearolds 2000 added and the Coney Island Handicap with 1500 added Tuesday June 30 the Spring 2000 added and the Tidal 6500 added Wednesday July 1 the Surf 2000added Thursday July 2 tho thou June 2000 added and the Spindrift 2000 added Saturday July 4 Great Trial 20000 and Sheops Shops head Bay Handicap 1500 added Tuesday July 7 the Pansy Stakes 1500 added Wednesday July 8 the Foam 2000 added Thursday July 9 the Vernal 2000 added and the Long Island Handicap 2000 added Saturday July 11 tho thou second part of the Double Event and the rich Realization Stakes with 25000 add d money will be decided The Horsemans Horseman turf dabbler Annan Anna this or that is the marvel of a class of cheap local turf critics His latest slopover slipover takes in everything equine and amid general blundering the badly abused sport of racing gets its share Dominos 1894 Derby and Tarals Tarsal instructions and riding are discussed like the ruralist muralist discussed valor by inflection No intelligent man who saw Dominos race ever believed that Lakelands Lakeland instructions or Tarals Tarsal ride cut any figure in the result Wasnt Want it the time 236 which is tho thou record and takes Boundless 1893 performance within its arms Didnt Dint Roy el Santa Anita win by six lengths and couldnt couldn't he have made it ten lengths Do the records show that Domino had any fancy for 1Yt miles The vanity of superficiality is marvelous at all times but most dangerous when it gets past the man who ought to know better and drives his way into print Tho Theo same shabby critic for supericiality superficiality is shabbiness or its literary equal laziness comment on Yo Tambein Ambient In the past ho de ¬ clared cleared her to have been tho thou greatest of Ameri America ¬ can mares at the expense of Miss Woodford Woodward Firenze Irene Los Angelos Tangelos et al Of course that was an error Now Allan something opines that Yo Tambien Ambient was always taken to tho thou front and allowed to rate along there Dearl Earl Doar Dar What about the 1892 Garfield Park Derby one of tho thou mares greatest races Are the records awry Or did she come from behind and mow down Azra Ezra Wadsworth Adsorb and the rest Allan this and that tells us too that he had exploit ¬ ed the mares powers at length and settled her turf standing Exploited forsooth 1 To what strange uses have our lexicons come when achievements or doings are so demonstrated in a verbal way and the account charged against their editors and makers
