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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. In a letter from Saratoga. Tom Magoe, Ed I Corrigans manager, has the following to Bay of f the horses in bis charge : "Onr horses havent been doing any too well L sinco coming here, Golden Rule and Sardine wore both coughing pretty bad, but seem to be getting over ifc and may be all right when the meeting begins here. I hope so, for Im anxious 3 to see how Golden Rule will compare with the 5 two-year-olds here. We have twelve horses 3 here Sam Tate, Cabrillo, Corsine, Adolph S c j 1 I f L 3 5 3 Spreckels and seven two-year-olds, viz. : Golden d Rule, Sardine, St. Anthony, Wallenstein, Sam a at Howard, Joe McGee, BaBseda and will run n most of them at this coming meeting. Pat Dunne n has baen doing very well; was second in the h Suburban with Bannockburn, and has won two li btake races with a horse named Fly By Night, p He sold Survivor for a good price, and sold Ap- h pioval for a much bigger price in New York L after he bad won a race and a good bt on him. h Pat is a good horseman and has good judgment, h Racing is on a firm basis iu the east, as the I recent sales of yearlings will show. The prices g realized were something unheard of for a long e time. Haggin was the only one that had a bad -sale, and he is to blame for it himself, for buyers knew, or balieved they did, that Haggin picked out the best of his yearlings and let Jen- 8 ning, Green Morris and others have them, there- s a fore they wouldnt attend or buy his culls, as they called his yearlings. So the only way for a 6 breeder is to sell them all without reserve." J In point of attendance and monetary returns from all sources it is estimated thas the recent J Sheepshead Bay meeting excelled any of its 1 predecessors, profitable as the meetings at that great track have been for many years. The owners whose horses earned for them ,500 or more during the progress of the meeting were as follows : Owners. Amount Horses. Amount. J E Madden 522,850 Sydney Paget.. .1,235 Perry Belmont.. 14,895 Bromley and Co... 14,440 , HrnssandBrsmn 7,450 W C Enstis 6,400 P Dunne 5,950 RT Wilson Jr.. 5,776 GE Smith 4.255 CFlchmnnSons 2,475 John Daly 2,470 J E McDonald.. 2,470 JW Colt 2,395 EastinandLarabie 1,975 FRandTHitchcock 1,890 PJ Dwyer 1,700 ES Gardner Jr. 1,650 J E Seagram 1,620 F Brown 1,615 M Clancy and Co.. 1,565 At St. Louis, up to and including Saturday, jockeys with ten or more winning mounts to their credit were: Jockeys Mounts 1st 2d 3d Unp T.Burns 228 75 39 33 81 Thorpe 102 33 27 17 25 Frost 215 29 39 42 110 Conley 138 28 17 16 77 Houck 141 22 14 22 83 Southard 165 21 30 29 85 Piggott 58 13 13 7 25 Lines 66 10 5 11 4o J. W. Schorr and Son lead the winning owners by a large margin, their closest competitor being Burns and Waterhouse. Those whose horses have won ,000 or more are : J W Schorr andSod4,272 John Huffman. ..,995 Burn?andWaterhse 9,138 M Murphy 2,833 JCCahn 7,206 W W Darden .... 2.534 J H McAvoy and Co 5,995 P Temlinson and Co 2,492 C C Maffitt 5,962 B Schreiber 2.428 ACahn 5,010 MS Hughes 2,176 G C Bennett 4,079 J S OBrien 2.145 W M Rogers 3,431 Talbot Bros 2,000 Two of the beat three-year-olds developed on the western circuit this season will tackle the bast they have in the oaBt at Saratoga. Corrigans Corsini, winner of the California Derby and Clark Stakes, is there and Schorr will bring W. Overton with his string. Notwith-1 standing the latters poor showing in the St. Louis Derby his trainer, George Walker, holds to the belief that the son of Bolvidero is a colt of the highest class. "W. Overtons performance in the St. Louis Derby is no criterion of the colts real class as a Derby horse, in my humble estimation at least," declared the competent trainer of the Schorr string the other day. "He received a hurried preparation for that stake and consid-s ering the condition of the track the day the race was run his performance was no surprise to mo. Overton is at his bast over a hard fast track. It cannot be too hard for him. As a two-year-old ho was at his best over the paste-l board track at Washington Park, He could d a at n n h li p h L h h I g e 8 s a 6 J J 1 , Dot ruu a lick over the Montgomery Park track Memphis and prior to his arrival here he had no work to speak of. This gave us about a month to fit him to run the Derby route with his weight up. Rain then came along and delayed the colts prep, the result being his poor performance the day of tho race. We did the best we could but his race demonstrated that he was hardly fit and ready to run a mile and a half with his weight up against seasoned horses, some of whom had nothing on their backs. Overton may never again be asked to go a mile and a half. I am satisfied that if he ever is he will come mighty near making good." St. Louis Republic. It appears that the Schorr horses are to be seat to Saratoga and not to Chicago, though detachment may be reserved for this place. It is reported that fourteen horses from tho string will be shipped to Saratoga within a few days. A St. Louis writer says of the matter: "Sam Phillips and Greenock will be relied on to carry the Schorr colors to victory in the big juvenile races at Saratoga during the coming meeting. F. W. Brode and Aberdale will not be taken east with the stable. Aberdale is to be rosorved for the winter campaign at Frisco, while F. W. Brode will be given a rest, and then prepared for a fall campaign at Chicago or New York. Sam Phillips is considered the bast two-year-old developed on the western circuit this season, with the possible exception of The Conqueror. The New Jersey Jockey Club track, at Eliza-bath, which was opened October 16, 1889, and closed in 1894, will be sold by the club. The track and grounds cover 150 acres, and cost originally nearly 00,000, but are now only valued by the State Board of Taxation at 5,000. The Board of Directors held a meeting recently, at which it was decided to dissolve the club, and a committee consisting of Michael F. Dwyer and C. Cornehlsen, of New York, and Francis C. OReilly, of Orange, were appointed to wind up it3 affairs, and a meeting of the shareholders will be held August 3 at the track to ratify the report of the committee. There were 5, COO shares of andtock in the club, and 3,500 were represented at the meeting. The fine buildings on the racetrack are falling into decay, and can only be pulled down and sold as old lumber.
