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GOSSIP OP THE TURF. i Secretary Harry Kuhl gives notice to owners 2 i at the local tracks that all badges now out- 1 standing for owners, trainers, jockeys and stable employes of all grades muBt be turned in before next Sunday in exchacge for new ones. 1 None of those now out will be good for the 1 coming meeting at Hawthorne. Stable room is in great demand at both local tracks. Late arrivals at Hawthorne are the stables of George C. Bennett with 14 horses; P.M. Civill, 7; Williamson and Manion, 5, and : James Robertson, 3; the latter trio being j jumpers. Besides these Secretary Kuhl has notice of the early arrival of the stables of Edward Corrigan, 13; A. C. Franklin, Jn, 3; W. 1 W. Darden, 3; D. J. Lynch, 2, and T. J. Mc- Hale, 7. Mr. Corrigans horses will rest here : for a time preparatory to their long journey to California and some of them may be raced a few times. Mr. Corrigan is in Kentucky but ; will probably arrive here shortly for a limited : stay. i In New York Friday night there was completed an extensive organization of breeders of thoroughbreds. The organization was conceived during the June horse sale, when a meeting was held and the following temporary officers elected: Pesident, Gen. W. H. Jackson, owner of the famous Belle Meade stock farm near Nashville; vice president, L. O. Appleby, of Shrewsbury, N. J., and secretary and treasurer, O. H. Che-nault, of Lexington, Ky. At Friday nights meeting these officers were elected to hold office permanently, with the addition of E F. Clay, of Lexington, Ky., as vice president. A meeting of the association was held Thursday night, at which a committee was appointed to formulate a consititution and by-laws. The committee placed itaideas on paper at a meeting held Friday and reported to the main body at night. Those present at the meeting were: Offices: Milton Young, Lexington: Charles Reed. Gallatin, Tenn.; Clay Woodford, Kentucky; W. H. May, Lexington; J. B. Hagain, New York; R. W. Walaen, New Jersey; Williams and Bradford, Kentucky; Applegale and Mc-Meekin. J N. Camden Jr., W. Showalter, J. P. Chinn, Morgan Ghinn, G, D. Wilson and T. J. Carson, all of Kentucky; William Hendrie, Canada; J E. Cushing, Chicago; Eliot G. Gouding, Now York; W. P Hotton, Louisville; Gideon and Daly, New York; Samuel Brown, Pittsburg. Pa., and W. H. Jackson Jr., Tennessee. The constitution adopted gives the name of the organization as the Association of Breeders of Thoroughbreds. It states that the objects of the association are primarily to guard with zealous care tue thoroughbred interest in any r manner that may seem best to a constitutional majority of the members in any regular rceet-inK assembled, with the hope and desire to be a t valuable ally to the racing associations, since the interests of both are and ought to beidenti-, call I
