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GOSSIP OF THE TURF The rule of intolerance is in the land and is especially pointed against racing The move ¬ ment is rural tut strong and racing folks both breeders and owners had best fit their goods to the possibilities of their use The Illinois clos ¬ ure of the past two years cost a sterling industry millions of dollars Now Wisconsin is hedged in With it the Indiana field is more than circum ¬ scribed The eager and too public speculative side of racing is responsible for it all It was too eager and too public Its troubles and los ¬ ses should learn it a lesson The Indiana tracks will only race fortyfive days in 1897 with thirty days between each meeting meetingThere There is a chance that the present Illinois legislature wiser than the last will pass a limited racing law It has two within its hands the Kilcourse sixty days measure and that of Senator Harding a thirty days racing proposition Tlie latter is best within the line of present public opinion It prohibits foreign pooling and legalizes only betting on local races Should either measure please the Illinois body enough to be adopted Chicago will have a short term of high class racing at Washington Park Hawthorne and Harlem this year There is a good chance that a considerate Illinois law will be created If temperately treated it will bo the legal wedge that will make racing in Chi ¬ cago as glorious as it was before the reign of terror began in 1895 1895The The McConnoll stable is said to have won a lot of money over Lizzie Cavaliers victory at Newport last Thursday The filly by Cavalier out of Charles McDonalds dam Lizzie Flynn McDonald is byRapturo outworked all the early ones at the Indiana colony Sjo DAILY RACING FOKM reported It also told of McConnells use of the starting machine in training The courts had to aid Lizzie Cavaliers start C A Richcreek who has been several times in trouble with rac ¬ ing authorities and is on the ruled off list mixes in with the McConnell stable training Richcreeks last alleged irregularity was about Lfnnotte last fill On account of Richcfeek the McConnell entries were barred at Newport An injunction by Judge Moore allowed Lizzie Cava lior to start startA A Turf Congress committee and represent ¬ ative delegation of breeders held a conference at Newport Ky Thursday and reached a con ¬ clusion about the pedigree matter in a reason ¬ able way though the conclusion is not yet official The agreement adopted provides that in the future a horse will be permitted to race on Turf Congress tracks only when it is estab ¬ lished that such horse has five uncontaminated thoroughbred crosses or that he authentically traces only through and to animals duly rec ¬ orded in the first five volumes of the American stud book or a recognized stud book of another country provided the aggregate foes for regis ¬ tering any one animal for racing or breeding purposes shall not exceed two dollars
