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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. On the back of a photograph of the late Frad Archer is printed his riding record. Sloan is doing capitally on the other side but he can never hope to attain the wonderful record achieved by Archer. It is truly a marvelous showing. The printed record says : "Leaving his essays in France and Ireland out of consideration. Archer during his career had 8,084 mounts, and rode 2,748 winners " Then follows the tabulated list for each years riding. He commenced in 1870 by riding two winners out of fifteen mounts. The next year he rode three winners ont of forty mounts. Gradually increasing up to the year 1883, he rode 246 winners out of 667 mounts. In 1886. when he died, he had ridden 170 winners out of 512 mounts, or an average of ene win in three mounts. He headed the list of winning jockeys for twelve years consecutively . being beaten only by two for first place in the fourth year of his riding career. His victories included the following celebrated races: St. L?ger. 6 times; Derby and Suburban, 5 times each; Oaks and Two Thousand, each 4 times; Prince of Wales Stakes, twice; One Thousand, Cesarewitch and Royal Hunt Cup, each twice.— Morning Telegraph. One of the afflictions horseflesh is beir to has interrupted the carer r of the Paget crack Jean Beraud at a tine when his chance for carrying off the rich Realization seemed of the brightest. Of his mishap the New York Journal of Friday says: "Even if Jean Beraud is really the best three-year-old of the y?ar. as many of his admirers claim, he will hardly have the chance to show it in the Coney Island Jockey Clubs big stake, the Realization. The champion of the Whitney-Paget stable has thrown a splint, and, inasmuch as the Realization will be run on July 4, less than four weeks ahead, it is dollars to cents that the colt cannot be sent to the poet. "The news of this trouble was not made generally public yesterday, but Sydney Paget confessed it sadly to a few of his friends. The splint, from all accounts, is still merely in the formative stage, It may not be serious, but even if it is not, such t reatment as will have to bo applied to check its growth will throw Jean Beraud out of active training so long that there will be no chance to wind him up for a race over so long a course as the mile and five furlongs of the Realization. There have been instances where trainers have kept right on in training a horse despite a budding splint, bat it is scarcely likely that such a liberty will ba taken with a horse of the value of Jean Beraud."
