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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. San Franciscos new racing organization, to take the place of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, , is to be known as the Western Turf Association. General Manager F. H. Green tends the a following information in regard to the track and plana of the association: "Wo Bhall ha70 completed and ready for rac i . j . i t i , a ing a new one-mile track on property lately acquired by us from the South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company in San Mateo County on or about November 1 of this y6ar. It is our intention To give race meetings as have been given yearly heretofore by the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, whose track is now closed. "We will be ready to open our gates to the public on Monday, November 6, 1899, and shall begin racing on that day. As complete a racing plant as there is in this country is contem- plated by the Western Turf Association. A more admirable location for a track could not bo selected. It is only thirty minutes run by the many local trains of the Southern Pacific Company from Fourth and Townsend streets to the entrance of the grounds, and special race trains will .make the run in twenty minutes. The climate ia mild, and this locality free from fogs. Every convenience and comfort for racegoers is to be provided for, and the most liberal terms and purses will be extended to horse owners. Stable accommodations will be large and of the very best. A list of stakes will soon be prepared." The Stewards of the Jockey Club met in New York Tuesday, and dispatched the following business: The Stewards of the Jockey Club, after careful review of the report and the evidence submitted in the Maher-Banastar case, approved the action taken by the Stewards of the Coney Island meeting. The action of the secretary in accepting the registration of the bay colt Vohicer was approved. The reinstatement of the bay gelding Nestor was confirmed. The application of W. C. Daly for reconsideration of the decision under which the entry of the horse Klepper is refused at all courses racing under the jurisdiction of the Jockey Club, was denied. The application of Charles A. Reynolds for reinstatement was granted. The horse King Bon was declared eligible to race in Bteeplechase and hurdle races, subject to such permission being granted by the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. The application of George W. Haymau for reinstatement was denied. The application for the reinstatement of the horses Gould, Governor Griggs, Monroe Dcctrino, Humorist, Junck Mc-Fonso and Zamacaran for jumping purposes were referred to the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association for investigation. A New York turf scribe has conceived a rightly bestowed admiration for Captain Rees as a racing official, and says of him : "Horsemen who have been in the west will tell you that Captain Reas is the ideal censor of racing. He was at New Orleans for a time last winter, and I was able to watch bis methods, and the result but confirmed the general verdict; he is the most capable official that ever assumed charge of a race mooting. His system was a revelation to the easterners. His attention to details worked wonders. The rac- ing during his time in the stand was the clean-i est in the history of the New Orleans track. Not alone at the track was confidence won, but from all partB of the country came congratula-I tions. A Captain Roes is needed just now on the Metropolitan circuit, and the relief cannot come too soon. If tnrf powers really desire to avoid Ecandal, the best way to do it is to end the happening which bring3 it." Mesmerist is the first of the eastern 2-year- olds that has proved himself ablo to take up penalties and win ; having done so in the second half of the Double Event. He is a full brother to Barney Schreibors fast filly Jinke, and ap-1 parently as good as any of the two-year-olds that havo as yet performed in public, if not bet- ter. : 1 . 1
