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GOSSIP Of THE TUKF. In the advertising department of this issue of Daily Racing Fokh will be found the formal announcement of the California Jockey Club that racing will begin over its Oakland track 8aturday, September 23. A large number of horses remained over in California last spring and several stables from St. Louis and other points have already gone to the coast, so that there will probably be no lack of horses to furnish good racing. The early racing will no doubt be exclusively for purses, but the usual list of stakes wjll come later on. In connection with racing at San Francisco it is worth noting that the Board of Supervisors has repealed the ordinance that resulted in the close of Iogleside last spring, and as the newly formed Western Turf Association has already given publicity to a list of stakes it appears at this date that three clubs may bid for San Francisco patronage, a situation that presages a lively time ahead. G. W. Miller, Jim Givens and Dan Honig have just shipped a carload of racehorses to San Francisco. The best-known horse in tho bunch is Millers mare, Loving Cup, who defeated Macy at a mile in her last race at the Fair Grounde. Loving Cup is good enough to win on any track, and she ought to give a good account of herself at Frisco next winter. Givens went west with Elbe and Sen Sen, while Honig sent Katie Gibbons and Elamore to the coast. St. Louis Republic. Lucifer, brown horse, foaled 1874, by LeamingtonLady Motley, by Lexington, out of Anna C, by Glencoe, died at the farm of his owner, Win. Mulkey, near Lexington Junction, Mo., recently. Lucifer was, in 1876, owned by P. Lorillard. He was a horse of fair class over a distance. He sired some winners, but vas not a great success as a sire, as were some of the other sons of Leamington. The woll iknown turfman, Dr. Rowell, has been appointed official veterinary of the California Jockey Club. He has examined all of the horses now quartered at Oakland track and reports them free from disease. As the eastern horses arrive they will also be compelled to pass muster a very wise precaution on the part of the Oakland association. The Jcckey Club recently refused Edward Corrigau a trainers license. This was, no doubt, because Mr. Corrigan some years back resorted to the courts to force the Coney Island Jockey Club to permit his colt, Huron, to run in the Futurity and then sued for second money which was withheld from him after Huron had run second to His Highness. The courts decided against Mr. Corrigan and that settled the case with him as it should have done with the Jockey Club. Its recent action was very nar-rowminded and unworthy of a body that usually acts on broad lines
