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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Messrs. Whitney and Paget are having their yearlings broken at Mr. H. P. Headleys La Belle farm, with Thomas Hogan, who has had charge of the Whitney Paget brood mares and foals, in chief command, and Ted Whitham in charge of the stallions as boss rider. They are thirty-one in number, and their breeding is given below. The Goldfinch Firenzi filly is especially a fine individual. It will be recalled that Goldfinch was imported to California by Mr. Haggin, where he made a season or two and then was returned to England. Chestnut filly, by Goldfinch Firenzi. Black filly, by Charade Edith Gray. Bay filly, by Lamplighter Medje. The following are by Meddler: Bay colt, Annot Lyle. Bay filly, Clio. Bay filly, Flageoletta. Bay filly, Frolic Grace. " Bay filly, Leonica. Bay filly, Little Lady II. Bay filly, Money Box. Chestnut colt, Nekomis. Chestnut filly, Octavia. Chestnut filly, Onoma. Brown colt, Silvie. Chestnut filly, Spring Gun. Bay filly, Sunnyside. Bay filly. Yodel. Bay filly, Zegri. Brown filly, Corizon. Chestnut filly, Iolanthe. Bay colt, Sheboygan. The following are by The Bard: Bay colt, Water Lily. Bay colt, War Dress. Bay colt, Equipoise. Bay colt, Love Fire. Bay colt, Heel and Toe. Bey colt, Maumeo. Bay filly, Rosalind. j Chestnut filly, Atbaiaric. j Bay colt, Northminster. Bay colt, Roulette. Thoroughbred Record. Mr. James R. Keene is opposed to the use of the starting machine, and said of in a recent interview : "Tho use or discontinuance of tho starting gate is the most absorbing question now confronting the Jockey Club, and one that from its importance can only be decided after the fullest consideration. Personally I am opposed to its uee and have been consistently so for a long period, but I realize that other gentlemen as well able to form a correct opinion as I favor it. I am aware that the English Jockey Club has, after a thorough discussion, decided to give it a trial, and mainly, I thinkr because its use in Australia has been saccoseful. "Whether tho gate used there is superior to that used here, or whether tha man at the gate there manages to secure satisfactory results I which have not baan attained here, is a matter about which I have no precise information. I only know that American experience with it haB been exasperating and disappointing, and that among the trainers and practical horsemen few will be found to dispute the opinion that it has signally failed to satisfy expectations and should, therefore, be abandoned and, a return made to the old method of starting. Starter Fitzgerald thinkB, however, that without a starting gate he might be less successful than with one, and might fail alto-gather. This raises a difficulty when we come to consider whether it would be advisable to discontinue it. We are now in the middle of the racing season and experiment, ordinarily hazardous, becomes more formidable when so many interests must be protected. Therefore, any radical change now is hardly likely, but a partial remedy might be found in the continuance of the gate without the recall. We certainly should get as good results as in Australia. Should it fail to give sasisfacticn, then the whole question of starting must be taken up seriously for solution." A meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club was held at the Brighton Beach track Saturday afternooD. The cancelled contract between William H. Clark and Jockey Daniel Maher was submitted. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was appointed steward to represent the Jockey Club for the first ten days of the Saratoga meeting, Tho following licenses were granted: Jockeys Elmer James, Louis Smith. Pete Clay, Spencer, Cogswell, William Crosthwaite, James Dupee, H. Hartley Eads, J. Hill, Quester Jackson, R. J. Mason, Thomas Smith and 5. Petermsn. Trainers Henry Behrmann. James Dumas, Charles Darsey, William H, Greary, C. F. Grady, William Hayward Sr., William Hay-ward Jr , R. P. Hayes, F. L. McFadden, R. P. McDonald, A. G. Neusell, E. T. Pino, J. S. Red-field, J. S. Ward and W. T. Woodard Jr. Tom Griffin made a mistake at Brighton Beach Saturday that greatly amused his enemies, of which ho has a plenty. It was in connection with the Choice Stakes, for which M. J. Dwyers Trumpet and Shoreham ran first and second and his own colt Enightbanneret third. The incident is thus described in a New York newspaper: "The Beach crowd is essentially democratic, and cheers rent tho air when Trumpet and his stable mate led home the field. These cheers turned to hisses when H. T. Griffin, better known as the man with the halter, bid up the winner to nearly donblo his entered selling price. Mr. Dwyer, who had been helped from his soat in the stand to tho track, retained his horse for ,905. Mr. Griffin waB of the opinion that the Dwyer entry counted as one horse, and that as his own colt, Knight-banneret, ran third ho would receive half of any amount over ,000 bid for Shorsham. But ho reckoned without his host, as the eastern rules differ from those in force in the wo3t, whence the halter man comes. The Choice Stakes deducting entry feea and half the extra bid, which goes to the association netted Mr. Dwyer ,017." John Miller, who is shipping horses between Lexington, Ky., and Now York and other eastern points, arrived at Lexington Friday with a load, including F. F. V. and VYaj3 and- Means. August Belmont sent tha stallion St. Bartholomew to his Nursery Stud and J. B. Haggin sent the three-year-old fall sister to Sir Walter to be bred to Salvator. Ways and Means has been fired and turned out, and tho operation will be applied to F. F. V.
