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RACING GOSSIP One of the best known Eastern horsemen in Han Francisco in a personal letter to the editor of DAILY RACING FORM says Both Inglesido and Oakla d a e racing to a big profit There were twentythroo books on today the best at ¬ tendance I have seen this year not barring New York and more of those beautiful golden double eagles than I ever saw before If you are lucky enough to get behind a bookmakers box with a hundred dollar ticket the cashier hands you out a stack of yellows The Oaks yesterday was a red hot race from start to fin ¬ ish and the whole field finished in a heap Eugene Leighs horses are all doing well Sui sun will not race again before March Lady Looram has jut recovered from a case of inflam ¬ mation of the stomach Leigh has five year ¬ lings two home raised tried and imported and three ho has bought One a Morello colt dam b Hyder Ali and third dam by Eclipse is his favorite cross He acts like a race horse and took the stable crack into camp quite readily after being in training but five weeks The DarebinToacher colt in the Leigh band is a magnificiont looker with fine action actionLucky Lucky Baldwins string in charge of Frank laylor is in fine form The horses in it will be hard to beat from now on There has been some sickness catarrhal fever in a mild form here but the majority of the horses are in the best of health I have learned to ask a tenderfoot what he thinks of our climate just as good as a native Californian The St Louis Republic usually intelligent in criticism about the turf declares that wo have no riders today like Garrison McLaughlin and Murphy Tod Sloan the foremost American jockey of the year is not to be compared with any of the abovo trio when they were at their best A rise in the scale of weights will give Johnnie Mooney Charlie McDonald Frankie Jordan and other old time favorites another chance in the saddle saddleAll All this is part of a plea for weight raising by the American Turf Congress in line with Jockey Club action Bosh The turf isnt injured be ¬ cause Garrison McDonald and Jordan are outside utility Taral in the heavy Griffin and Simms in the medium and Slaughter Jonos and Sloan in the light class are as good riders as those of any period of the American turf Sloan leads the jockeys of 1896 chiefly because rf his opportunities The weights could not bo ex ¬ panded to the weight of some of the former riding stars of the turf Tho scale should bo that of utility what racing material according to the judgmeat of its owners can carry and be useful Before or at tho same time that the scale of Western weights is raised Western turf rules should be so arranged that high priced horses are sent into costlier avenues than those who are worth less money and have less ability The business sense of operating a turf or a gro ¬ cery store is the fitting of stock to condition and opportunity The legislation of tho Ameri ¬ can turf is even now too embracivo Nearly every district has ite necessities of condition i nma to and clientele Commonsense legisla ¬ tion is that which dovetails the material on hand
