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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Mnd on a racetrack is like charity everywhere alse it covers a multitude of sins. There the resemblance stops, for, while there i3 only one .genuine brand of charity, there are probably -one hundred known varieties of mud. The list is being added to continually, and it begins to look as if a new adage "every horse has his mud" will take the place of that older formula, "every dog has his day." The trouble at present is that there does not seem to be any far reaching method of spreading the information when the kind of mud on tap is to the liking of some particular horse in a race. The horse itself knows, of course, for it scoots through the stuff like a torpedo through salt water. The owner, too, knows, for he contrives to have "a swell bet" on his nag, but the rank and file of the betting ring are not let into the secret until the race is over. Possibly among the turf reforms of the near future an owner will be compelled to file with the stewards, for publication, an analysis of the slush best, suited to each equine individnal inhis string. Then with mud guages prominently displayed in saddling paddock and betting ring the average piker may gain an inkling as to how his "two dollars" may be invested to the best advantage. W. W. Naugh-ton in San Francisco Examiner. T. C. McDowells two-year-olds for 1899 are as follows : Bay colt, by Jim Gore Eeine dOr. Bay colt, by Wadsworth Aggie M. Chestnut filly, by Kmgston Kittie Clive. Bay colt, by Candlemas Kanawha. Chestnut filly, by Candlemas Sudie McNairy. Bay filly, by Linden Peninah. Chestnut filly, by Esher Excellenza. An optimistic turf writer in the New York Press sajs: "I expect to see within ten years W. K. Vanderbilt, George Gould, E. D. Stokes, EichardT. Wilson, Jr., Harry Payne Whitney. Alfred Vanderbilt, Senator Walcott, Eugene Higgins, Col. John Jacob Astor, Charles Bates, Ned Berwin, Louis N. Bell, Albert C. Bostwick, "W. L. Elkins, Bob Gerry, Dick Halsted, E. H. Harriman, Col, Lawrence Kip, Harvey S. Ladew, Clarence Mackay, Ralph Pulitzer, Eeggie Rives, Robert L. Stevens, Lee Tailer, General Tracy, Johnny Townsond and A. J. Cassatt on the turf with large racing stables of their own. Mr. Cassatt will return as soon as he can eliminate the suspicion of legal trouble. Ho has never recovered from his arrest at Monmouth Park on the charge of keeping a "disorderly house," which the racecourse was held to be under an ancient New Jersey statute. He is sensitive almost to a fault, but you could not pick out a more thorough sportsman-"
