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GOSSIP OF THE XDBF. Many complaints from English race goers have been made to the stewards of the English Jockey Club on account of the pernicious habits of owners who inflict their colts and fillies with initial or letter names. The London Star gives a few of them. Mr. F. Alexander has named a chestnut yearling by Hidden Treasure Hop Pole, K. K. K.; Mr. A. Baileys yearling by Sir Modred Armourette has been christened U. B. A., and Mr. J E. McDonalds brown colt by Hayden Edwards Bultaness, bred in America, is named A. N. B. The British race goer does not care so much about the initials as he does abont telegraph tolls. Each letter or initial means an additional ienny when he sends his "wire" to his friends at distant points to play a good tip straight from the paddock. W. C. Fleischmann and Thomas Welch have returned from Lexington, where they attended the Woodard and Shacklin sale of thoroughbreds. Thomas Welch is a close observer and. is con ceded to b9 ne of the best judges of horses in America. He talked enthusiastically about the horses owned by William C. Whitney, which are quartered at the La Belle Farm. Mr. Welch was loud in his praises of Meddler, which, he says, has developed into one of the handsomest horses he ever set eyes upon. He asserts that Meddler is at least 250 pounds heavier than when ffered for sale at Morris Park, and that, as far as conformation end general appearance are concerned, he is perfection in every detail. Welch predicts a great future for Meddler, for he rightly claims that a sire that could produce such good results aa Meddler did in the barren regions of the Blue Hills of Massachusetts is certain to make a name for himself in a locality where everything is favorable. Morning Telegraph. Of a youcg horse that may be destined to cat a considerable figure on the race track the New Orleans Picayune of last Saturday said : "Prince of Verouia, a good-looking son of Cayuga Ver-ooia, carrying the all-scarlet of the Morris Bros., showed his heels to a fair field of maidens in the second race at tho Crescent City Jockey Clubs course yesterday afternoon. From a time standpoint hiB performance did not call for much, but the colt won with such ridiculous esse that his race Btamped him as a more than useful youngster. This fellow possesses the three necessary qualifications for a race horse siz breeding and action. He skims along close to the ground and is a. picture when in motion. He made a show of bis field and won in a gallop, by a length and a half. Boland had him under a pull all the last quarter, and he was almost eased up to a hand gallop at the end." "Snapper" Garrison, once the countrys premier jockey, is devoting himself to training, and has a promising stiiag in his care. It includes th e following lot : Bay filly, by Liesak Erie; bay gelding, by Magian Fancy ; cheatnnt colt, by Lord Eiterling Brighton Beach; chestnut colt, by Senator M. Tambourine ; bay colt, by Bubbler Egg Plant, and a neat but undersized black filly by St. George Ada. The chestnut colt by Lord Esterling Brighton Beach looks the making of a racer, and under the "Snappers" expert handling should surely show to advantage. The black filly by St. George Ada is.as pretty as a picture and rb quick as.lightning. Garrison has received a telegram from jockey Corbley at Washington accepting an offer to ride for him, and next season he will carry the stables colors in the saddle. Exchange. Those who came down from Bennings were tolling a good story around town, in which Tommy Griffin, the "booster," figured either as hero or victim he best knows which. It seems Thomas organized a special party of twenty-five persons for the trip from Washington to New Orleans, and gave it his personal attention, seeing that everybody was aboard and comfortably settled. Everything went along swimmingly; they got off to an excellent start, to use a turf expression, and were going very eaey, when they arrived at Alexandria, about eight miles from Washington, when Tommy euddenly discovered that his wife end children had b?en left behind in the shuffle. It was then 11 oclock at night, and Mr. Griffin had to leave the train and walk back all the way to Washington to hunt up his family. New Orleans Picayune. -A horse named Multiform, which is now in England, is considered one of tho greatest horses that ever raced in New Zealand. Oat of nineteen races Multiform won fourteen timeB, OOHTIKCED ON BBCONS TXQM. GOSSIP OF THE TUBF. Continued from 1st Page. made a dead heat twice and was second three times. He is now in England, and the Antipo-deans expect great things of him. His arrival in England swells the list of Australian and New Zealand horses racing there to npward of fifty, so that the pleasing spectacle of Australian horses ridden by American jockeys winning English races ia gratifying to sportsmen all over the world. What would a jockey of the present day say to such a costume as this: A black velvet cap with a long French peak, and a bow of black ribband behind; long hair falling to his shoulders; a white cambric neckcloth of ample folds tied at the back; a lobe body coat with flapB, wide skirts, three buttons at the sides, where it opened aB well as in front and behind; knee breeches strapped just below the knee; white cotton stockings, and black leather Oxford shoes with long tongues and silver buckles. Yet such was the dress worn by the winners of the first Derby s, The inconvenience of riding a close finish over EpBom Downs, or the H9ath at Newmarket, or Ascot, with a high wind bloving, in these long tails, naturally led to a compromise. Necessity iB the mother of invention, and soma early jockey there was ne chronicle to show who he was hit upon a happy idea, and tucked his skirts inside his breeches. The next step towards the custom of the modern jockey was to curtail these appendagos, and after that the transition was easy to the racing rig with which we are now familiar.
