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RACING GOSSIP Eugene Leigh went to St Louis last Saturday night From there he goes to Frisco for the winter with eight horses and two jockeys J Gardner and A Thompson Ive I've kissed the farm good bye he said before he left Coulter has discharged me as a trainer It was on ac ¬ count of Bonnie Dundee losing right and win ¬ ning Ming wrong But men are ungrateful and apo capo ¬ logetic logistic Coulters a worse trainer than I am Im bad too But there are more and many not others Pat Dunne too has lot me out because I won a race with Strathrol Stretcher while I was his trainer and Dunne was absent and had Strathrol Stretcher run up 500 Everything I have except old Bramble is for sale Theres Theresa no price on Bramble Leigh is one of the keen figures of the turf Ho doesnt doesn't think there should be any outlaws Hes Hess right too What a man owns is his own and for use Most of the outlaws so called are products of the American idea of do thebestyoucanwi thwhatyouhavegot Out ¬ lawry awry is an expedient and an apology for classi classic ¬ fication fiction The rich turfman Truman has no fundamental right to tell the poor turfman Truman when and where or at what season he shall use what he has The rich owner has a right to legislate for him ¬ self and choose his company Such angles are broad and human though they may be less than democratic There is not a large enough class of of aristocracy in American turfdom turf to make outlawry reasonable reasonableMr reasonable Mr Leigh takes with him to California Patrician Contrition Suisun Sufis Lady Looram Loran Good Times Arrezzo Carrizo Yama Ama b c 2 by Leonatus Lents Lillian Lindsay and King Cade Cades b c 2 by Kinglike Cadence He bought Suisun Sufis from M F Dwyer Patrician from Phil Dwyer and Arrezzo Carrizo from the LevyOppenheimer outfit which is under the Eastern ban The Arrezzo Carrizo deal was a costly one for Leigh He soldjbhe sold Aretino Retina Libbie Libber L colt well He is a maiden but was a wonder in work last spring When the Eastern stable got into trouble Leigh had to buy Arrezzo Carrizo back for some 4500 pay nearly 700 for training expenses and go to stout effort to get the horse into good standing Lady Inez Cine ran in the Leigh colors at Cincinnati recently She is not in the Leigh stable but has been sold back to Bill McGuigan Michigan The St Louis corner of the Turf Congress was less than wise in applying intimidation to owners who proposed to compete in the racing events at the Springfield 111 State Fair The reason given was that of competition against outlaws The Springfield officials took the right stand They declared that their events were open and that they knew no bar There should be none Every racing association or club has a right to receive or reject tools but no one club or one hundred clubs has any right to tell an owner when and where he shall race or earn his living with the stock he has The out ¬ law term is one of the uglinesses ugliness of the Ameri America ¬ can turf It should be erased at once The broad trouble is that of ignorance of local hap ¬ penings openings and keen needs in a territory too large to be intelligently governed by six much less two turf bodies The Jockey Club scarcely knows its own The Turf Congress is far less intelligent in its range than the Jockey Club St Louis racing will probably bo controlled 1 after this year The Missouri legislature which has already prohibited foreign betting will be likely to pass a 45 or 60 days racing law at its next session Domino will have more than the usual chance of a young sire He has been bred by that courtly gentleman Major Dangerfield Danger who rules Castleton Carleton for MrKeoneto Marlene the following English mares Editha Edith Fair Vision Queen of Shelba Shellback Sundown Belle Rose Citronella Dancing Water Dutch Flag Lady Gay Mere Hill Syl Sly vabelle abele Royal Nun and Bonnie Gal Then too the great horse has been mated with tho thou Amer Amber ¬ ican Rican mares Lucy Wallace the dam of Spark ¬ ling Ella T who has given the country Banquet Tea Tray and Defender and Glooming
