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GOSSIP OP THE TDBF. A new racetrack in this vicinity is among the possibilities for the next season. The project is being engineered by C. A. Tilles, who hag poifected his pltns pretty well. Mr. Tilles plans call for a first-class racing plant, the aggregate cost of which will b3 about 00,000. Several sites for tho proposed track are under consideration, and as soon as the deal for the land is consummated the organization of the company that is to build and equip the new track will be completed. C. A. Tilles and his partners, Sam W. Adler and Louis A. Cella, will be the leading spirits in the new enterprise, although it is Mr. Tilles intention to try and distribute a large share of the sjock in tha new track among prominent western horsemen, With the prominent owners sharing in the profits of the track, Mr. Tilles and his associates foal assured of their active support. According to Mr. Tilles, the Messrs. Cahn and other well-known owners have already expressed their willingness to subscribe for stock in the new track. "The track will ba operated under tha provisions of the Breeders act, which permits ninety days of racing annually on a regulation mile track," said Mr. Tilles last night. "We believe that there is plenty of room for two tracks iu St. Louis, bat we have no idea of clashing with the Fair Grounds. An equal division of the raciDg dates is all we ask, and each track can run off its ninety days, or whatever the allotment is, between April and October. We have no fear of anti-racingSlegiBlation in Missouri. The sport is too popular with the public to permit of any farthor legislative tinkering with it. Wintor racing and the poolroom evil woro responsible for the wave of public sentiment against the sport that swept over tho country several years ago. Since then the sport has bean legitimatized in New York, Missouri and other states. We will cater to the best horsemen intho country by offering cothing less than 00 purses and nothing but addad-mosey stakes. Classic events will be established and we intend to add no less than ,000 to all oar stakes." Mr. Tilles is the! leading stockholder of the Little Rock racetrack and both he and his partners, Cella and Adler, were formerly identified with the South Side and Madison racetrack ventures. The firm had the field book privileges at the Fair Grounds last eoason St. Louis Republic. The principal winning owners during the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs meeting which closed last Saturday at Gravesend wore as follows : i Ownnrs. Amt. taOwnera. Amt. BromieyandCo....522 710. FD Bard $ 1.515 Oneck Stable.... 1.770 EaandtinandLarabie 5,080 JE Madden 2,260 iJ J Ea mns 3,980 j , , OONTItiUBD ON SECOND FiOI, GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from 1st Page. . M F D yer 2.515 J R and F P Bt-rney Scbreibr 1,793 K one 1,680 j J W i olt 2.450 Wm Lakeland.. 1.355 ; 5 Snfurdand Sona 4 175 F M.Taylor 2,125 5 W H Lnudtnan . 1,645 Harnss and Bross- Deimel and Farrell 1 180 n an 7,575 i Mb reus Day ... 1.595 W B Jennings .. . 2.540 Jsms Adams... 1.735 T C McDowell. .. 6.265 A J S-pmler and. Co 1,710 P J Dwyer ,. 3.080 OLittletMa Jr... 1,895 H E-geDB Leigh 2,630 JVMntten 1 525 J J McCafferty.. 1.900 Sydney P-get 1,275 The piominerce of Bromley and Co. on the 1 successful lis-t lias been mHi y dne to the sac-ce . 868 of their tiDe two-year-old Mcmerst, , and their improving four-ynar-old, Previous. Tue lattfr raced like a rank counteiMt for almo-t two seatots. but sttnek his pait recently ano took some of the btst in the all-aged division i into camp. If he ran retain bispOfent form he should be h fpeter in tho big evnts for wlich he is oligible 1 t Mot ris Park, The firm of Harnes 6 Bossman gut away with ovor 57.CC0 at Gravesend throngli the ageicy of their phenomenal mare Imp, who seems to impiovo as she goes along On the WestcheBtPr slopes she sbnnld do even better than at Sheoprhead Bay and Grvesend, ami little credence is placpd in the rumor that she will be retired for hnith. Tt e great daughter of Waer er Fondlii g has develot ed into 1 , such a p polar idol that her presence at the coming meeting mould bs a big drawing card as wo 1 as a possible EonrcMf mcrei-sedn-vt-nne to her owners. Suould sha be sent along fur the WestchStr campaign it s tan Is to reason that she will hhve to shoulder heavy weight. This was vol snpro ed to be hfr forte earlier in the season, but th9 manner in which Bhe hannalei 128 pounds on last Saturday showed that when she is fic and "lot slep," a few Sounds more or lesB make little difference to er. The mure is entitled to a rest but she does not seem to need one, and while she re-mtiins sonna it ia generally hope! thai Manager Brotsman will let her go right along the line. New York Son.
