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GOSSIP OF THE TURF Recently Mr T H Cooke claimed Chihuahua then the property of Edward Corrigan out of a selling race at Ingleside Ingles It is now probable that in moments devoted to reflection over things already in the registry of the past Mr T H Cooke is forced to pronounce his action in that particular case hasty and illadvised illative At least the following from a San Francisco paper of May 3 would justify such an inference At a meeting of the P C J C Stewards last night T H Cooke and his horses Chihuahua and Break oDay today were ruled off the track The infraction of rule 156 of the American Turf Con ¬ gress egress relating to persons offering to Or entering into an agreement to bid or not to bid on the winner of a selling race was the cause of his punishment The principal testimony against club officials say he was abusive and boister booster ¬ ous onus At any rate he was expelled from the grounds Hence the suit for damages The stake book for the spring meeting of the Cincinnati Jockey Club Oakley Ankle is out Be ¬ sides the list of fixed events for the spring of 1898 the book contains tho thou names of the offi off ¬ cials calls who will preside at Oakley Ankle during tho thou coming meeting which opens on May 21 and continues until June 7 fifteen days in all The judges will be Captain J H Rees of Memphis Charles F McLean CLean of this city and Secretary Charles F Price of the Louisville Jockey Club The Board of Governors will bo composed of the following gentlemen G T Miller E N Roth E P Anderson J L Woods H M Lay Nicho Nichol ¬ las Longworth Loanword Walter F Mitchell and Dwight Kinney The stewards are M S Simonton Simon A S Labold Labeled and George B Griffith James F Caldwell will handle the flag Seven stakes are to bo decided at the meeting beginning with the Oakley Ankle Derby on the opening day Cincinnati Enquirer Cooke was an affidavit made by J B Earnshaw Earns This sets forth that Cooke approached him on April 26 to run up a horse owned by Ed Corrigan and divide the runup roundup money The proffer was declined A cranky Memphis patron of racing is not pleased with the judicial ways of Col Cool M Lewis Clark and has resorted to tho thou courts in an effort to prove that some of tho thou rotund Ken tuckians tucking edicts should be wiped from the slate The case is thus set out in a dispatch from Memphis What may be a very interesting suit has begun in the Circuit Court The de ¬ fendant fondant named is the New Memphis Jockey Club and the complainant is A Frost a citizen of Memphis Frosts grounds are somewhat pe ¬ culiar culinary and may be the subject of a very inter ¬ esting besting point of law Ho claims that he was present at Montgomery Park on April 26 at the recent race meeting when Foucon Soupcon was pro ¬ grammed rammed to ride Peail Pail Barnes When the horses were going to the post Judge M Lewis Clark ordered Foucon Soupcon to dismount and placed Tommy Burns in the saddle The race was run and the horse that complainant had bet on was beaten by Burns on Pearl Barnes Frost states that he immediately protested against tho thou action of the presiding judge in changing the jockeys The The St Louis Derby of this year is at a mile and half Its terms are 50 entrance half for ¬ feit feint or only 10 if declared January lwith with 5000 added of which 1000 goes to the second horse 500 to the third and the fourth saves his stake Sixtyfive Sixty of the 149 entered were declared Jan ¬ uary unary 1 On tho thou basis of ten starters the race will net the winner the tempting sum of 7450 And it may be set down in advance that if Ban nockburn nocturne goes to tho thou post fit and well next St Louis Derby day and is of the class ho is sup ¬ posed to be the other horses entered that may be sent to the post will simply contend for sec ¬ ond bond and third money The main prize is Ban nockburns nocturnes now For owing to tho thou penalties and allowances provided for in the conditions of the race Lieber Libber Karl will have to carry 127 pounds and Plaudit 125 while Bannockburn Bannock VVth VT an allowance of twenty pounds gets in at 102 It is apparent Bannockburns Bannock temporary backset backseat in training and racing may not bo un ¬ attended by solace for the worthy Mr McGuigan Michigan
