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GOSSIP OFTHE OFTEN TURF Work on the Newport track is1 now almost completed Several bad spotslon spots the track have been made safe and the steam roller will be kept busy for several days going over the places recently filled in Tne Tine track is now in better shape than ever before and there should be some very fast races run over it this fall Secretary Gratz Graft Hanly Hanky said the other day that he would give no stable room to any one except owners with good horses ready Jto Jo race Applications for stable room are so numerous that it will be necessary to refuse all owners with skates and broken down nags the privilege of stabling on the track Among some of the most promi prom ¬ nent anent owners that have notified Secretary Han ¬ ly that they will bo at the track with their stables are W S Barnes Dots Brothers Hardy Durham and J T Stewart There will also be a number of the stables from the east on hand besides manylfrom mailroom Chicago Windsor St Louis and other points Cincinnati Epcjuirer Epicure EpcjuirerIt Epicure It is not so very long ago that tofee toffee Simms Sims name postedjas posted a rider of a horse meant a cut in the oddsIfor odds he iwas was as popular with local racegoers racehorse as either Maher or Sloan now are His work during the last month or two how ¬ ever has been so poor that his admirers have I nearly allkdeserted balladeer him and at present he rates away down on the list of popular favorites When at his best no rider in the country can outjockey outback him but in his present form few care to back his mounts A change for the bet ¬ ter tear can not come too soon New York Journal JournalP Journal P JtSullivan St Louis Maddalos Medals time in the race won by him August 10 was 1 551
