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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. A special dispatch from San Francisco to the St. Louis Republic of yesterday says : "The supervisors are considering the advisability of modifying their anti-pool ordinance, which suppressed racing at the Ingleside track. Supervisors Collins, Aigeltinger and Holland have announced themselves as favoring a modification of the ordinance in order to give a short season of racing and coursing. Holland, while insisting that the subject had not been discussed at any caucus that he attended, declared that he would support an amended order with certain limitations. He said: " I am in favor of a modified or limited racing season in San Francisco. You may remember that at the time the anti-pool order was passed I placed myself on record in the matter. It is a pity that the sport of horseracing should be ruined by the abuse which has characterized it here, and this is the view I then had of the situation, which caused me to state what was my attitude No«, Im opposed to making the racehorse a nickel-in-the-slot machine, with thirty-five cards in the machine, and that is what they have been doing at Ingleside. In the modified order I will favor having a short season, in which one week is reserved for California-bred horses and racing for a California cup, this to encourage the breeding of fine horses in this state. Another thing that should be stopped— betting by women and girls on the track, such as has been done through messenger boys between the stand and the betting ring. Indeed, there should be a clause inserted to keep oil the track all minors, except the boys that are actually employed as jockeys or trainers. I believe that racing can be conducted here in limited seasons without doing any harm, and I am read to vote for it that way. " -With .Montgomery Handicap day right at hand, the horses at Memphis are being sent along at a hot gait. Good work was done Monday which is thus described in the Commercial-Appeal of Tuesday : b "The work of the horses at the track yesterday morning was creditable. Algol, with heavy weight up, worked a mile in 1:45. Timemaker stepped the first three-quarters with him in 1:171. Algol finished the mile and an eighth in 1 :57i, galloping. Chantilla went a mile in 1 :44 * . with 116 pounds; Freak, the same in 1:45, and George Krats in 1 :45. The Morris stars, Manuel and Kentucky Colonel, easily negotiated a mile and a quarter in 2:16. Crocket and The Ken-tuckian worked together nine furlongs in 2:00i. The fractional time was 131, 254, 51, 1 :04, 1 :171, 1 :31i, 1 :45, 2 :00i. Crocket had up lighter weight and beat out the Simms colt handily. Matanza and Mariti went a mile in 1:451. Matanza showed a splendid burst of speed and got the better of the argument. She is a sure starter in the Tennessee Oaks, to be run next Monday. Czarowitz and Empress Josephine, from Senator OBriens stable, worked three-quarters in l:19t. W. Overton, who was yesterday declared out of the Metropolitan with Lieber Karl, breezed a half in 53. W. Overton will be given a trying workout this morning. Myriam G. breezed a mile in 1:49. The Morris two-year-olds, Bonnivard, Petit Maitre and Insurrection, stepped a half in 50i. These three are considered high-class youngsters, h "C. T. Pattersons highly-tried Fonso colt, McMeekin, did not do so well, and 52 was the best he couid hang up for four furlongs. J. J. Markleiu had out a number of his two-year-olds, which worked nicely inside 53. The Barrister, a Derby candidate, was sent six furlongs in 1 :16i and did it swinging." Word reported from Louisville Tuesday in the Courier-Journal was of a fair order. It says : ... "Considerable work was done yesterday by the horses in training at Churchill Downs, the track being in better shape than it has been for some time. The beat work of the day was done by Admiration, the Tennessee and Kentucky Oaks filly, which worked three quarters in l:15i. A full brother to Sir Vassar, in Bob Tuckers stable, worked a mile in 1 :47i. "Among the Derby candidates John E. Mad-dens Mazo and Hapsburg worked a mile in 1 :48i, doing it with plenty of weight up. His Lordship worked a mile and a sixteenth in 1 :52, and Ways and Means, his stable companion, negotiated the same distance in 1:524. The latter looked a little tired at the end. "Rifle worked a mile in 1 :49 and left for Newport last night. He is owned by Miller Henderson, and great things are expected of him. Gene Leigh worked two Sir Dixon fillies a half together in 50i, with ninety pounds up. Isabey was also sent a mile in 1 :48. Louisville Belle, a filly in Henry Simons stable, worked a mile in 1:51, with plenty of weight up. "A number of two-year-olds at the track are stepping quarters in 244 and 25, and, according to Colonel Sam Bryant and others, they are farther along in their training than the youngsters at Memphis and elsewhere. "Very little work was done outside of what has been mentioned. Kinley Mack and MacLeod of Dare worked a mile together, and some of the trainers say that Kinley Mack acted lame at the stretch, but this could not be substantiated." According to the San Francisco Chronicle the horses lost through the burning of the car in which racers belonging to D. A. Honig and Barney Schreiber were traveling eastward were Zamar II., Fortunate, The Swain, Charley Quinn, a half sister to Modwena, and two colts that had never raced. The fire started directly above Rosebean, which mare was badly burnt about the back, but she may live. Schiller ran away thirty miles and received several bad gashes in a barbed wire fence. The fire broke out about two oclock, and there was no connecting bell rope, and the shouts of the attendants to stop the train could not be heard. Although the train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, one of the boys crawled to an express car and finally had the train brought to a stop. The American-bred colt, Tophet, by Fiddlesticks — Toscana, winner several times over the New York tracks last year, won the Queens Prize at Kempton Park, England, last Tuesday. It was worth ,000. When told of the colts success his former owner, W. Meehan, said : "Of course Im surprised at the colts good showing in England, but, truly, I always had an idea that he would show up well some day. I bought him at a Belmont sale in 1897 for 25 and raced him with indifferent success until July 18 last, when I sold him for ,000, William Roche being the purchaser. He, I believe, represented Johnny Lamley. The latter raced him on all the tracks until the season closed, and it was at the New Orleans meeting that the ex-jockey sold him to an English racing man." Roscoe Troxler, the midget jockey, who was suspended at New Orleans for a reprehensible ride, is not making a very strenuous effort toward reinstatement. Influences have been brought to bear, causing the youngster to be put in a school where he will spend the next two years. At ths end of that time the lad will be nearly seventeen years of age and will have acquired sense of judgment and discrimination that will help him in the straight and narrow path in case ne is light enough to assume his chosen calling. Johnny Troxler, who was suspended at the same time, has concluded to quit the racing business. He gave away a two-year-j old several days ago, which was the last of a small string that ha raced.
