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GOSSIP OIT THE TUKF. The Coney Island Jockey Club confidently anticipates that its autumn meeting, which opens at Sheopshead Bay track on next Saturday and runs to September 9, will ba one of the greatest in its history. The boom in racing is becoming so pronounced that the management has wisely decided to go with the times, and the result is the best endowed program presented in many years. Purees have been increased in a fair ratio to the growing prosperity of racing promoters, and tha minimum offered for the coming meeting is 50. For some of the handicaps as much as ,800 is added, and the result is expected to be generous patronage from owners and followers of the turf. Should this broad-minded policy prove as successful as anticipated at the Bay, it will probably ba accepted as a healthy precedent by the associations further down tin fall schedule, and horsemen who fail to take advantage of such opportunitiea to fill their corn bins for the winter will find few sympathizers when the annual November growl about extra days makes its appearance. All other events except those leading up to it in the nature of trials will, of course, be overshadowed by the historic Futurity, to be run as the fonrih race at Sbeepshead Bay ou Saturday, The outlook for this rich two-year-old stake has rarely been so open, as there is no established champion to scare away opposition. One of the largest fields on record is expected at the post, unless owners and trainers learn more in the brief interval as to the respective merits of the candidates than they appear to know now. Shrewd judges were so unanimous the i ther day in supporting Chacoruac at Saratoga that ho is almost sure to have a large ! followiug in the big event. The son of Juvenal Laetitia graduated out of the maiden class in snch impressive style that if he can come down I the hill at the ehma gait, he will have to be reckoned with. Another prominent factor will be Sydney Pagets fast Ally Knlashaudra, by Golddncti Counomara, and great things are also expected of tie K ene pair, Virgin. a Earle and Doublet; Eugene Logos King Bramble, J. E. Maudtns Guljcu,S. a. Browns Manvilla, Juhn Dalys pair, Erin and His Royal Highness, and a small host of others.-New York Son. Yesterdays Cincinnati Enquirer eays: "Secretary Hopper of Latonia, will this fall again blossom forth with his radiant gr en and orange stripes that have flashed under the wire more tban once in contests for supremacy in the turf world. Mr. Hopper has a three-year-old brother to Sherlcck by Eberlee Blue Bonnet in training at the Kenton County track. The colt has bsen ailing since early in the spring as a two-year-old, bnt ho showed enough speed when he was at himself to warrant his beinr handled and fitted for the big races. Those who have Been the colt and are competent to judge pronounce him one of the handsomest and raciest-loosing individuals that it has ever been their fortune to see. In addition to his looks ho is rouudin? to nicely, and worked a trial yesterday morning that indicates that ho. is an individual above the ordinary, and will hold his own in any company in which he is pi ced. That the colt may succeed is the hope and wishes of the genial secretarys numerous friends throughout the country. Mr. Hopper is a trne and loyal sportsman in more tban the thoroughbred lina, and has had for several years a email but salect stable of horses during his career as secretary of the Latonia Jockey Club." Of work done at Saratoga Monday a New York Newspaper says: "Tne thoroughbreds were going along at a merry clip here this morning and some of the work done puts a new complexion on the Faturity. Until now Killashandra has been considered as the best of the tried Futurity candidates. Hildreth gave her a half-mile spin this morning and she acquitted herself in a way not entirely satisfactory to her trainer. "She had for a workmate her stable companion, the two-year-old colt Angle, who just beat her out in the moderate time of 50 seconds. Of course, the Paget filly may improve between now and next Saturday. This morning she did not stem to have her usual spead. "Joyner asked a severe question of Mr. Loril-lards candidate, David Garrick. The colt had Maher up, carried about 120 pounds, and turned the six furlongs in 1:15; his stable companion, The Chamberlain, also piloted by Maher, covered the same distance in 1:161. "Another Futurity candidate, the brother to Gotham, in Biomley and Co s stable, got a smart gallop, doing the distance in 1 :15. He had a boy up weighing about 95. "Howes Chacornao turned the distance in very nice style in 1 :16. . Th re is a growing impression that this big Btiiding. son of Juvenal will take lots of beatmg in the Futurity. "Madd n gve Radford a pipe opener, six furlongs in 1:141, with 110 pounds up; Piince of Melbourne an easy mile in 1:46, and his recent purchase, Kilmarnock, a half in :54. "Other work of the morning was : i am Phillips, six furlongs in 1:16; Lady Massey, a half in 52 ; Sanders, a mile in 1:47, and Approval a mile in 1:45. On Saturday Admiration did a fast gallop, five furlongs, in 1:001. She had 114 pounds in the saddle. McDowe.l also worked his lot. His Excellency covered the five furlong route in 1:03; Rush, a mile in 1:45, and Batten a like distance in 1:44. A story showing that Mr.Corrigau is still "en force" cropped up the other day. It was in relation to superintendent Packett, of the Saratoga track and his dearly baloved treas. Now, if there is one ttiitg more than another that Mr. Packett dotes on it is tha trees which shade "horse haven." Con- his neives were jarred to the quick IBeqnently when Mr. Corruan said to him a short time OONTINCBD ON SECOND PJLQH, GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from 1st Page. . . . 1 ago: "Look here, now, I want those three trees I have put a Etring around cut down. They are in the way and I dont w ant them there." This was said in Mr. Corrigans quiet way, his peculiar drawling voice giving force and strength to the words he wished to specially emphasize. Mr. Packett expostulated in vain. He could not; he should not and Me would not. They were th beauty of the place and had been there for years btyond number. It would be sacrilrge to tear them up. He would not do it. Mr. Corri?an merely said, "You will." The next day the trees, root and branch, were gone. And Mr. Packett knows who it was who, took the trees down. Spirit of The Times. "Coley" Thompson, the lightweight rider who was set down during the Newport spring meeting, has engaged himself to F. H.Hickok. Thompson did not ptrform in the saddle at the Queen City Jockey Clubs first meeting this year in a manner which Buitrd the judicial eyes of the occupantB of the stand, atd therefor o was put on the ground for a year. Afterward, during the Latonia meeting, this ben was raised and lie was allowed to ride for W. W. Steele only. Bince then Mr. Hickok has made a verbal contract with the riders father to keep him till January 1. Colonel Jim Murphy, the well-known Lexington turfman, arrived at Letonia Monday from Saratoga with a string of flyers. Mr Murphys stable will race at the coming Latonia meeting. Monadour, Murphys crack three-year-old filly that won bo many races at Latonia last epiing, was left at Saratoga in charge of Pete Wimmer, the trainer of Ben Holladay and others. Hon. William C. Whitney returned to this city on Tuesday from England, where he went for rest and found it. He attended the races and purchased some thoroughbred yearlings, but has not yet made up his mind to race in England. In reply to a question Mr. Whitney said: "The Englishmen are beginning to realize that better thoroughbreds are being bred in tbis country than there. The old stallion, Sensation, at P. Lorillards stosk farm, is second to only one in the list of winning sires "in Eogland this year. The Duke of Westminsters Orme heads the list. Lord William Baresford has bought Lorillards stable and the English sportine papers think that in his American-bred Democrat, by Sensation, he owns the Derby winner of 1900 " .Sensation has quarters apart from the other stallions at Rancocas, and Mr. Lorillard has always had faith in him as a sire. Mr. Whitney has collected such a powerful stable and takes so much interest in breeding and racing that many of the loyal friends of the turf would like to see him made more prominent in the councils of the Jockey Club. Turf, Field and Farm.
