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RACING GOSSIP The pinheadedness pigheadedness of present nowspaperdom newspaper as applied to the turf is illustrated by the harsh criticism of Ed Corrigans Corrigan bidding up Eoudo Outdo from 1250 to 5000 after he had beaten Moylan Mayan Thursday Part of the health of the turf is financial action around selling platerdom plated There is too much combination and trickery about it The Corrigan advance was too high perhaps He probably wanted the colt and isnt isn't of your compromise stripe But the general newspaper condemnation of a man doing what turf law in ¬ vites vies him to do doesnt doesn't say much for eyeon eyeing thegunismamong the critics There is of course deep scandal out of the transaction Thats Hats the modern angle and the Cincinnati Enquirer is always the leader in shabby gossip about the turf Tout information is its strong hold It asserts that Mr Hayes offered Mr Corrigan the stake 1440 if he would not bid Eondo Condo up and that Mr Corrigan agreed not to raise the Song colts price 1250 One can easily pass up such a story The Corri Corrie ¬ gan Egan bids were keen From 1250 the entered price the first raise was 2500 and from that sum to 5000 in 500 bids Corrigan said after the episode Eondo Condo was in too cheap I wanted him at 5000 and bid to my price I made no agreement with Mr Hayes The price of Moylan Mayan was about 1600 The tawdry gos egos ip drags in Mr Hayes as a partner of Horace Argo Argos in the circumstance which sent Leo Lake out of the Corrigan stable last year It the gossip is not worth analysis Hornpipes race behind Gotham Goth in the Seagate Stakes of Wednesday last at Brooklyn was a grand one The mile equalled equaled th track record 141 made by both Longstreot Longest and Eubicon Rubicon Hornpipe was a scant head behind at the finish and would have won in a few more yards Both liad laid 16 pounds off their scale weight The chances are that Hornpipe will cut a sharp figure in Eastern racing this year His bad foot is less bad than of old and Billy Lakeland be ¬ lieves levees in him The honesty of racing comes into mental touch when one considers the Seagate finish in the light of Lakeland training Gotham Goth and owning Hornpipe Mr Lyles Lyle of the Clyde Lye Stable was at Lakeside Thursday He came to look over the local field with the idea of moving his horses here He left for Detroit the Clyde Lye Stable is at Windsor Thursday night Before going Mr Lyles Lyle said I cannot afford to come to Chicago The racing is sharpening too much for me It has as gen ¬ erally rally a healthy look as any racing I have seen for a long time The Schreiber and Dunne stables are to come I am told They scare me away Mr Lyles Lyle does EACING ACING FOEMS OEMS chart work wherever he is The Windsor charts are the compilation of his excellent corps corpsA corps A renewal of the St Louis Club Members Handicap is being talked of The proposition is to get Buck Massie Massive Assignee Eamiro Ramiro and Flying Dutchman together again for a purse of 1000 with an entrance fee of 50 or 100 all of which is to go to the second and third horses J M Murphy the owner of Buck Massie Massive and Clarence OFallon Fallen the owner of Assignee are willing to do anything reasonable to oblige the Fair Grounds association and the chances are that the owners of Flying Dutchman and Ea ¬ miro micro will also be found in a like frame of mind Murphy is undecided as to Buck Massies Masses future He has the son of Hanover engaged in several valuable stakes at Cincinnati and will probably take him there if he remains on edge Buck is also well engaged at Milwaukee The Turf Congress Bdard Bard of Appeals met at Cincinnati a day or two ago The board consists of Captain James H Sees Presiding Judge at Oakley Ankle Ed Corrigan and Col Cool M M Young The latter by virtue of the fact that he is presi paresis ¬ dent of the Turf Congress acted as chairman There were a number of minor matters looked into but the only business of interest to the public were the applications from outlawed owners and jockeys for reinstatement reinstatementOf reinstatement Of the dozen or so applications from jockeys for reinstatement only three of them were granted The boys who were given permission to return to the legitimate tracks are Will Wit retto recto T Williams and James Trainer all of whom have been riding at the outlawed tracks in the Mound City The racing public is rather short on its daily information through the newspapers nowadays There is a noticable noticeable and economical dead set against racing in most of them while the finan finn ¬ cial cal bicycle is in favor They permit all sorts of bosh about racing Here is the latest instance Free Advice won the Mound City Handicap at St Louis last Thursday Its route is 7 fur ¬ longs and Free Advice with 108 pounds up ran it in 1 231A The regular news extolled the per ¬ formance Forman a good but hardly a great one as the Leonatus Lents Eva S colt had fourteen pounds off his scale weight as clipping a half second off the worlds record held by Libertine and made over the St Louis track August 3 1895 1895All All this is misinformation The 7H furlong record is Mamie Mammies Scotts Scots 133 made at Bay District San Francisco October 17 1895 Begue Beget at New Orleans Maich Mach 3 of this year beat Lib ¬ ertines artiness 134 by running a 7 furlong race in 133J Faraday too June 8 1895 carried 116 pounds and won at the distance and on the Fair Grounds track in the same time as Liber Libber ¬ tine 1 34 Libertine carried 115 pounds and ran his fast race nearly two months later All were fast and meritorious bits of racing and are not to be questioned But its just as well to keep the record straight in these superficial days snd sand Mamie Mammies Scotts Scots the straight of it all The worlds record talk too is bosh Thera Terra is no worlds racing record The English and Austra Austria ¬ lian lain time records are fast enough to be merged with our own But so far they have not been The turf has enough nobility to receive more attention than it is getting in these days of ours
