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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. For the last time Daily Racing Foem re- 1 minds the turfmen of the west that Saturday is j the last day for making entries to the splendid list of stakes offered by the Latonia and St. Louis Jockey Clubs. The stakes of the New Memphis, Brooklyn and Coney Island Jockey : 1 Clubs, recently closed, show a very great and : .gratifying increase of entries over last year, i presaging a record breaking season of prosperity and horse owners will be remiss in their : obligations to the pursuit through which they make their liviDg, if they do not see to it that the two clubs named shall receive entries up to the standard already set in the cases of the clubs whose stakes ;have already closed. Particular attention is called to the fact that the 3t. Louis Derby and the Latonia Derby are in the .list. These, as all turfmen know, are among the most important and -valuable events annually decided on the western turf. Last year the St. Louis Derby was worth ,725 to the owners of Pink Coat and Han dOrs success in the Latonia Derby netted 47,620. These are great sums and the Derbies of 1900 should be much more valuable. It will be a year of booms and celebrations and it lies with" turfmen to make it a year memorable, also in turf affairs. Entries to the St. Louis stakes should be addressed to Robert Aull, President, Fair Grounds, St. Louis, Mo. Entries to Latonia stakes to E. C. Hopper, Secretary, Covington, Ky. R. S. Thompson of Nashville and jockeys Blake, Washington, L. Smith and R. Sullivan, all of whom were, at one time or another, ruled off or suspended on the Northern Circuit tracks, have been reinstated. W. O. Parmer said of their cases: "It is the first time in the history of the circuit that anyone who has been ruled off, has been reinstated. The Northern Racing Circuit has been very strict in snch matters, as it was its intention to establish and maintain good racing. It has been the custom of other tracks to make a man remain on the outside long enough to find out the error of his way, and, in the majority of cases, they have been reinstated. We will give those men another chance to begin over, .but the rules must be regarded." C. H. and E. G., St. Louis, Mo. No rule distinctly governs the point. The race won by Jim Hogg Jaunary 10, at New Orleans, was originally over hurdles, with the condition that if track was bad it should be run on flat. Track -was bad and it was run on flat. Bets made upon the basis of a hurdle race should in reason be declared off. Bets made when change of conditions are known should stand. See betting rule No. 18, page 57, American Racing rules. It seems to cover the matter.
