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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Up to within two years ago it was with considerable difficulty that racehorse specials were secured from Chicago. The owners and the agents of the i track had no difficulty in securing the necessary permission from tho roads to run a special, but the roads took their time in delivering the cars. It was common that a train took fifty hours from Chicago. This year very long and very welcome strides have been made in rapid transportation. Last year the old fifty-hour schedule, if it may be called by such a high-sounding name, was reduced considerably, and this season two specials came south from Chicago in very speedy time. The first made the run of 916 miles in thirty-four loots and delivered every horse in good condi-ion. E The management of the local track takes hese efforts of the railroads to bo accommo dating as lather a compliment. They consider that it shows that even the railroads are beginning to appreciate the importance of New Orleans as a racing point. The turfmen have recognized this point for some time, and are coming south in preference to traveling fa; out west. New Orleans Picsynne. Enoch Wishard gives his views rather freely about the manners and methods of training horses in England. He does not mince his words, but boldly proclaims that American horses are as good as the English horses. In addition, he modestly asserts that American trainers lay away over the Englishmen in the art of preparing horses to race. He assumes that American trainers can buy horses in England and make a great improvement in them by training them on tb American plan. As for the American riders, Mr. Wishard declares they have demoralizes the English school by causing all tho jockeys who bavo been brought up from childhood in the hard and fast lines laid down by a century cf trainers to chacge their methods and to endeavor to imitate the Americans. Mr. Wishard will sail for England on Saturday with a consignment of horses for Richard Crcker. The Melbourne Cud was run November 7 and was won by Merriwee, 95 pounds; Voyon, 112 pound?, was second, and Dewey, 92 pounds, third.
