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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. In the California Jockey Clubs great list of stakes advertised in this number of Daily Racing Fobm, will be found tha star event of the San Francisco racing season, the famous Burns Handicap. This rich fixture, like the Brooklyn and Saburban handicaps, is of the guaranteed value of 0,000, and is a prize that may well engage the ardent hopes of any turfman in the land. Heretofore it has ben the custom of the club to announce the terms of the Burns Handicap much later in the season, so late that it hardly served aB an inducement to eastern owners, but this year it has been wisely made one of the first lot of stakes offered and should operate favorably on the minds of owners of good horses who are wavering over a partially formed intention to undertake the California campaign. Of the ten stakes here offered none is of less than ,500 guaranteed value, something remarkable for winter racing. Besides its stakes, the California Jockey Club has given notice that it will inaugurate a program of special overnight condition races and handicaps of much greater value than it has been the custom to offer on the coast. All around, the indncements to send good horses out for the approaching campaign are exceedingly tempting. Now that it is known that the San Francisco clubs will divide dates horse-owners can confidently look forward to a long season of uninterrupted racing at the great city by the Golden Gate, and it stands them in hand to give attention to the conditions cf the fine array of valuable stakes advertised in this issue of Daily Racing Form by the Western Turf Association. They close October 25, and will be followed by anothor list of tempting stakes to. close at a later date. Racing in winter at San Francisco is practically, so far as weather and track conditions are concerned, the same as racing here in summer. The three Frisco clubs will hang up not less than an aggregate of a half million dollars to be earned during the coming winter by horses that othorwise would have to be turned out in costly idleness. This enterprise and liberality calls for reciprocal action on the part of owners and should insure the stakes here offered generous entry list. Horsemen are reminded that entries for the Kfntucky Derby, Clark Stakes and Kentucky Oaks of 1901, close at midnight Monday. Those are among the most valuable and famous annual fixtures of tho wostern turf end no owner of U yearling can, with due regard for his own interest, refrain from giving bi3 youngstei a chance to win celebrity for himself and fortune for his ownor, especially since it costs but the trivial sum of for each original entrance. By the time the moderate second payments become dne, May 1, 1900, owners will have a fairly good idea of the capacity of their young horses and can then at very slight cost decide whether it is best to drop out or stay in. Sand entries to secretary Charles F. Price, Louisville, Kentucky. Jockey Hazelwood has bean suspended for the meeting at Latonia for allowing himself to be 1 left at the po3t on Glad Hand Friday.
