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GOSSIP OF THK TURF. Secretary Harry Kuul has issued the program book for the first week of the coming meeting at Hawthorne. It wdl be the Kst meeting of the year at he pictureoe Cicero course, and, with, a fair prospect in advance f r pleasant Indian summer weather to entice visitors, it is safe to predict that the closing two weeks will be marked by gnod racing and a masare of attendance f ally up to the avenge of the remarkably succ s-f al meetings that have gone bfire The program book calls for the cu-tnmary six r ess daily with 100 purses, the exceptions being that a C0 rurse is offered Tuesday and Saturday. Steeplechases are provided for Monday, Thursday and Saturday, ail over the short course. The longest distance race of the waekis a mile and a quarter daeb,Eet for decision Saturday, October 7. Apparently al ages and conditions of ho r so a are considerate provided for. Patrons of racing should take n tice of the fact that beginning next Mondav and continuing to the close of the two weeks meeting the first race at Hawthorne will take place at 2 p. m. so that all visitors can retun to tbe city before dark. The schedules of the Illinois Central and Burlington trains will ba changed to coinside with this earlier time of starting the first rase. Pat Dunne has telegraphed for stable room at Hawthorne. Ha wi 1 come on directly bfter the close of the Brooklyn meeting and race his horses at Hawthorne through tbe meeting and then take to the line for California. Woodard and Andcson will also brirg their strirg to Hawthorne with The Devil at the head. Coasin Peggy is deed. Few of the present generation of racegoers who figure racs on form acd barely know the sireof a dozen hrre ever hear 1 of Cousin Pegey. but her first foal honee is the most prominent, both in numbers and quality. With D-. Sheppard, .Mount McGregor II. and David Tenny fir the all-aged division, Midiove and Pat Morrissey in the sprints, the stable is very strong. At St. Louis Southern Girl and Bit of Fashion, both clever two-year-olds, were picked up. Bae Bee is in fine form now. So is San Tomas. Besides there are Eoven others, some good and Eome bad. "Charley Boots has a big string in training, and Constellatir looks to ba tin making of a grand colt. Hohanzollern ran well at Sacramento. "Jimmy Coffey has First Call, Bosinante, Bernardille aid a two-year-o d by Lew Weir in fioo shape Opponent is doing well and will be hard to b at in the spr nts. "Fo d Edwards has half a dozen of Prince Poniaowskis in training, besides a gren three-year old, Orsini, belonging to W. OB. Mac-donough. He is by Ormonde Jonglenso, by Alarm, and a strnngly-bult fellow, though somewhat coarse. As yet he has b-on only cantered, but shows indications of great spaed. Dan Honig has a clever string hre, among his horses being. SiUer Tone. Pat Ryan has a usffol stable r ady to race. Don Cameron will be here shortly with Dr. Nembula, a smashing colt by Portland. He will als bring May W. W or, the owner of the cFnking sprinter, May Beach, will also ship very soon. Beside these a host of Bmaller owners have already qnar ered in Oakland. Garnet Fo-ga- TANFORAN PAKK GEANDSTAND. electrified racegoers on almost every track of any prominence in America. It was the speedy mare Goraldiue, wir n -r of more rcei th- n any o her m ire that ever looked through a br die and who broke a number of records duriDg h r won terfally successful career on the turf. In f ict, Geraldina 6till holds the worlds record for haif a mile running the distance as a four-year-old with 122 pounds in the saddlo ovor the Morris Park otraightaway course in 46 seconds, which is at the rate of 1 32 for the mile. Besides Geraldine, Cousin Pegsy, who was born the year of the Centennial Exprsition, gave to the turf M .j ir Joe, a fair racehorse, and Queen Alta, dam of Ruirart. Cousin P gy was orMnaly purchased by Porter Ashe from John Adams of Los Angeles, together with Fauny D. Cousin Peggy was in foal to Grinstead and the youngster was mined Goral line. Outside of her caroar on the turf the m -re figured in the sensational quarrel between Tom Williams and Porter Ashe. Porter Ashe purchased CouBin Peggy at a recent sale of William OB. Macdonoagh, so tint she would have a go d home for the bal anco of ber days. She died of colic San Francisco Cnronicle. C moerning racing prospects at Oakland, the San Fiancicco Examiner of last Saturday said: "Although the season begins much earlier than usu tl, there will ba plenty of good hi rses. Already a large number have coma frm the east. Of courts tbe string of Barns and Water- eon has Maud Fergu-on and a couple of two-y ar olds. H tngor Jones is hers with Nilgar. McSIaiion and Gsrhardy, now racing at Stockton, will be here soon. So that here will be no dearth of horses to select from. "It is expected that at least ten books will be on hand. J ihn Humphreys, Joe Harlan, Otis Evans for Henry Schwartz, Caesar Young, Tony Cook and Harry Hoffman are some whose sUtes will be som. There will ba plenty of opportunity for everybody to bat."
