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GOSSIP OF THE TURF TURFThe Tufted The highest price paid for a yearling during the present year was 10000 for Method by Order Victorine Victorian a full brother to Ornament bought by J S Curtis He is a grand looking colt and bids fair to make a name for himself J W Kogers Loggers who trains for Mr Curtis pins his faith in him himAt hint At Gravesend Graves the leading subject talked about by trainers is the form shown by P J Dwyers Dyers colt Miller by Hindoo Indoor Bonnie Gal He moves easily and has already shown great speed Prank McCabe says he thinks that Dwyor Dwyer has got another Hanover HanoverOat Hanover Oat in Montana Marcus Daly Dally has a regular corker in preparation a dashing colt by Goldfinch Carina Matt Byrnes Byres says he is as fine a looking colt as he ever laid eyes on Mr Daly Dally paid 8600 for him Some good horsembn horseman say that the good form shown by this youngster was a leading inducement for Mr Daly Dally to pur pour ¬ chase Hamburg and that he is sure that he has two winners for next year yearThe earthen The most highly tried yearling of the season is a chestnut filly recently owned and trained by Owen Bradley of Lexington Ky Last month on the Lexington track she ran three furlbngs furlongs with 115 pounds up in 351 C T Patterson paid 3000 for this filly fillyJames filenames James Kowe Owe has his eye upon several of the big twoyearold toehold stakes of 1898 He relies upon two colts and a filly the get of Juvenal Retali Retail ¬ ation action from Bassinette Bassinet and a chestnut colt from Mag Magi That his trainer thinks well of this youngster is proved by the fact that ho states 10000 would not buy him Up to and including Saturday the aggregate sum of 31950 had been distributed among the owners of horses contending at New Orleans JWSchorr Son head the list of winners with 2ti8 to their credit closely followed by E S Gardner Son with a total of 2234 Other owners well known to Chicago patrons of racing have annexed the following amounts Stanton Tucker 1518 Clint DeWitt Hewitt 975 J H Payne Co 950 W A McConnell 875 W A Porter J43 W C Fessenden Essence 775 Mrs W W Lylos Lyons 773 James T Davis 646 G C Bennett 600 Foster Bros Brows 600 JohnBrenock 275 and W H Boiler 275 275Though Though Tommy Burns did not do very well last week he still leads the other jockeys at New Orleans so far in winning mounts that he has them all double distanced The records of the jockeys who have been fortunate enough to land two winners are as follows up to and in ¬ cluding clouding Tuesday When Lord Marmion Marion beat Whitten Whiten Bros Brows Good Friend in a selling race at Oakland last Friday Tom Kyan Kahn boosted him 500 over his entered selling at the first bid Sam Hildroth Holdout then took a hand and raised the colt 500 more it costing his owner J MacManus Macanese 1505 to re ¬ tain stain his fleet son of St Carlo Macilanus Macmillan was at one time a street car conductor but so long as St Cuthbert Cither Lord Marmion Marion and Tiger Lily retain their present form he is not likely to be under the necessity of again resorting to the bell punch for a means of living According to the Picayune there are some sweet things among the yearlings soon to be 2yearolds now in training at the New Orleans track Among those favorably spoken of are a brother to Lithos Litho and a sister to Successful in the stable of F Eeagan Meagan and brothers to Flying Dutchman and Loo Lolo Lake belonging to F H Hickok Hick both good lookers Hickok Hick is credited with saying that the brother to Flying Dutch ¬ man is the fastest youngster he ever owned C J Garrisons Soudan Sudan Pastel filly is credited with abundant speed and with being a remark ¬ ably quick breaker a quality that will tell in the shortdistances shortlist the 2yearolds are raced over in their first essays early in the year The racing programs at both of the San Fran ¬ cisco tracks are very well constructed and suffi sufi ¬ ciently cliental varied to cater to all kinds and qualities of the horses now located near the city of the Golden Gate Their program of stakes too is very liberal but at each track the oppor copper ¬ tunity unity to make provision for what would be a very attractive event has been overlooked A stake race for 3yearolds over a dis dais ¬ tance stance of ground a Californian St Leger Leer with such material right at hand as The Roman Altamax Alta Salvado Salvador Shasta Water Hohenzollern Horatio Oration Devils Dream Parthemax Parthenon Scarborough Personne Personnel Vincitor Inciter Rey Frey del Tierra May W Aquinas Oscuro Obscure Osric Ostrich II Bernardillo Bernardino and other lesser lights of 3year old form would certainly haveproved averaged a popular and interesting feature for the closing days of the year It is of course too late now but ad ¬ mirers mires of good horses will regret that at least The Roman Altamax Alta and Salvado Salvador were not given a chance to meet at a mile and a half with stake weight up The Derby won last spring by Scarborough certainly evoked sufficiently wide ¬ spread interest and drew a sufficiently great attendance to suggest to the liberal and pro ¬ gressive greasier San Francisco racing organizations the desirability of instituting a corresponding avent advent to be decided by the 3yearolds in the last month of their career at that ago
