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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The authority that governs ail fiat racing in England, the Jockey Club, has decided that in all two-year-old races run under its jurisdiction next year the starting barrier,, or gate, shall be used. If the experiment provoB satisfactory the two and threa-year-old races of the succeeding year will be started in the same manner. Lord Durham, a strong advocate of the innovation, eo impressed his co-members of the Jockey Olub by his arguments in favor of its use that to him is mainly due this radical change in English racing. Some extracts from" bis address are Lure presented. Daily attendants on racing in this country will be amused and interested in observing how closely they portray what occurs day after day on American racetracks. It is obvious that the so-called starting problem presents the same features in both countries and that if some new method results in more even and expeditious starting in one conntiy it should prove to be equally efficacious in the other. In the course of his address Lord Durham said : "The rule said : Any jockey presuming to start, or even to put his horBe into a trot or canter with a view to take any advantage before the flags are dropped, wilfully turning his horse around, not starting when the flags are dropped, hanging behind, or refusing to obey the commands of the starter in any respect whatever, shall be reported to the stewards. The jockey was never reported; and in every single race jockeys were always trotting and cantering their horses and wilfully turning their heads around. "Another thing which jockeys were not supposed to do, but which they did in every single race, was that they got in front of tbo starting post when they ought to be coming back to the starter; and long before they returned to the proper position they again whipped their horseB round in order to secure an advantage at the start. He thought it was clear that their protect rules of starting were not observed, and the matter had come to such a pass, owing to tho flag system of starting having bacome viciously altered from its original constitution, that the jockeys took charge of tho starter, instead of the starter taking charge of the jockeys. "He would point out to th9 opponents of the starting gate, who feared that our horses were so very much more excitable and irritable than horses bred in other countries, that in the case ! of a horse having bolted from the post, it very often happened that the horses left waiting at the post for the other horses to come back were as quiet as old troop horses, because tho jockeys left them alone; they dropped the reinB on their necks and the horses stood quite quietly. "When a horse has bolted, do you think tho jockeys will wait till that horse comes back ? f No; when he gets within twenty yards of my flag off they go, and never give him a chance; if they do give him a chance of turning around, i then, before the horse is half round off they are i again." Minister Strauss writes from Constantinople, , ! f i i , under date of May 18, 1899, that, according to a note verbile from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Turkey, the regulations prohibiting the exportation of horses from that country have been removed and a duty of 5 Turkish liras 4 will b9 charged upon each horse exported. As inquiries are made from time to tima regarding the export of Arab horses from Turkey, this information maybe of intereBt. Many of the leading western stables are quartered at the Saratoga track. Ed Corrigan has all his juvenile cracks at the famous New York summer resort. Corrigan has a strong band of two-year-olds in Golden Bule, Sardine, Basseda and St. Anthony. Golden Bule is considered one of the fastest two-year-olds developed in the west this season. He is thought good enough to beat the best of the crack eastern youngsters. Sardine is good enough to beat any of the eastern fillies. Another western horseman, who has a string that ought to cut a big figure at the Saratoga meeting, is Tom McDowell. He has Bush, Spirituelle, His Excellency and other good ones in his stable. Barney Schreibsrs string is among the latest arrivals at- Saratoga. Tayon, . a two-year-old bay colt by Lissak Caroline Hamilton, in the Schreiber string, was seized with a car fit en route to Saratoga, and severely injured himself before be quieted down. There promises to be rare doings at Saratoga in the two-year-old division. Corrigans Golden Bule and Sardine, Tomlinsou and Co.s The Conqueror, C. H. Smiths Lieutenant Gibson, Schorrs Sam Phillips, McDowells His Excellency, J. D. Smiths Estill and Clay Bro3. Kilmarnock are among those that will clash with the pick of tbo eastern youngsters. When the smoke of battle clears away it may be concluded that we have some downright good two-year-olds after all, something that might well be doubted if the gloomy criticisms of the New York scribes were set down as gospel truth. Critics at Brighton Beach say that Martimas has grown bat little in height since last year but that he is a colt of wonderful muscular development. His trial with 115 pounds up prior to the Brighton Beach Handicap was as follows : 12i, 24, 364, 48i, 1:01, 1:14, 1:27, 1:40, 1:51, 2:07i. That would be good enough to win most races, and in the actual race he must have done at least 2:061. He is evidently a very good horse and a race between him and Ethelbert at even weights would be sure to exite great interest. Speaking of Flaunts victory in the Undergraduate Stakes at Brighton Beach Saturday a New York newspaper eays: "It was a wonder that Flaunt was ever able to get home as he did, for he was cut down three times in the race. One of the cuts was on the hock, and a difference of a fraction of an inch in its depth would have ended the colts usefulness forever." Marcus Daly haB sixty-seven foals of this year at his Bitter Boot Stock Farm. Inverness is the sire of 12, Montana and The Pepper, 11 each: Tammany, 9; Bathampton, 4; Meddler, 3. The otherB are by Matt Byrnes, Sam Lucas, Goldfinch, Star Euby, Friar, Hanover and the English sires Kendall, Donovan, Bavensbury, Crowberry. Ayrshire and PrimroBe. The yearlings of E. F. Simms and those of W. i P. Norton will be shipped to Sheepshead Bay in a few days whore they will be broken and han-I died for racing next season. In Mr. Simms lot are a foil brother to Tom Collins and a half brother to The Kentuckian. In Mr. Nortons shipment is a full brother to Sunny Slope Thoroughbred Becord.
