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GOSSIP OF THE TUKF. , The remaining stake races at New Orleans will be run off in tho following order: Saturday, December 9 Palmetto Handicap; value ,000. Saturday, December 16 Preliminary Derby ! Handicap; value ,000. j Saturday, December 23 Crescent City Handicap; value ,000. Monday, December 25 Christmas Handicap; value ,000. Saturday, December 30 New Orleans Handicap; value ,000. Monday, January 1 New Years Handicap; value S1.00Q. Saturday, January 6 Audubon Handicap; value ,000. Monday, January 8 Jackson Handicap ; value ,000. Saturday, January 13 Gentilly Handicap; value ,000. Saturday, January 20 Live Oak Handicap; value ,000. Saturday, January 27 Cotton Selling Stakes; value ,000. Saturday, February 3 Merchants Handicap ; value ,500. Saturday, February 10 Club House Handicap ; value ,000. Saturday, February 17 De Soto Handicap; value ,C00. Thursday, February 22 George Washington Handicap; valu ,000. Saturday, February 24 Speed Handicap; value, S1.C00. Saturday, March 3 Oakland Handicap ; value ,0C0. Saturday, March 10 Dewey Hitch weight Han-d icap ; value ,0C0. Saturday, March 17 St. Patrick Handicap; value, ,010. The Creace.nt City Derby, to be run in March; value ,000. According to reports there is no telling juat how man new race tracts St. Louis will have next seaeon. Ab is generally known, the Adler-Cella-Tillea syndicate hae had the matter of building anew track under consideration for the past two months. Enthuaiaetic sporting writers, whose wish is probably father to tha thought, also report that J. D. LucaB and Tom Maxwell are endeavoring to build new race tiaoka in St. Louis County. Mr. Lucas owns the Goodwood stock farm in the county. He is said to be figuring on building a track near Normandy. Mr. Maxwell is a wealthy mulo dealer. He owns a big farm on the St. Charles rock road. Mike Barry tried to organize a syndicate to build a race track on Mr. Maxwells farm last year, but the capitalists approached by him decided to invest their Ioobo change in government bonds in preference to taking stock in the new race track. The latest new race track project of the season was sprung by Cole TJllman yesterday. Coles hustling brotber, Joe TJllnmn, blew into St. Louis from West Baden, Weanesdey, Cole says he is here to build a new track. According to Cole, his brother has coin gelore back of him. He will decide on what Bort of a course to build after looking over the field thoroughly. Joe has brought a Yerkes telescope with him to size up the situation thoroughly. Cole and his brother Joe, were responsible for the Eaat Side and Madison whirligigs that flourished on the other side of the river a few years back, and its to be sincerely hoped that their next undertaking in that line will be large enough at least to permit hobby-horses to circle its turns without risk of losing their balance. St. Louis Bepublic. As is bis custom, Charlea T. Patterson will spend the winter with his horses at Memphis, and in part devote himself to training a young jockey who he thinks ia deBtined to rank with the best in the land. Of this boy he said recently at Lexington: "Lucien Lyne is the youngest son of Mr. Sanford Lyne of this city, and that he will be the premier jockey of America some day I have little doubt. He is now fixteen years of age, a bright, smart little gentleman. Ho weighs now about 78 pounds, and is eo constructed physically that it will be some years before he over-reachea the 100-pound mark. Beally he is ready to take a mount now. I have had him exercising since July. He has a good seat, and uses his hands quite as well as any jockey riding today, not excepting the much- lauded Tod Sloan. "I- have purchased several two-year-old fillies to enter in Belling races and on them I expect to give Lucien his first lessons in the racing game. I expect to start in at Little Bock and by the time the Eastern tracks open Lucien will be ready to handle the six or seven horses that I expect to race around Now York. I will ride him almost exclusively. I would rather lose a race by a bad rido than to be left with the impression that I had probably been the victim of the ex-pertness of a dishonost jockey. My experience with jockoye after I lost Everett in the east this year was quite enough to make a man wish he had never seen a race track." Bonneville has taken his departure from "Texas" Smiths etablo. Before winning the handicap Tuesday he was sold to W. J. Boche and ran in his name. The price paid was 000. The terms were ,000 cash, the purse of 00 yesterday and the remaining to ba paid out of his future winnings. Mr. Boche acted as agent for ex-jockeys Lamlej and Ham. New Orleans Picayune. After winning the first race at Tanforan Tuesday Dunblane, in for 00, was bid up to ,500 by F. W. Doss and bought in by W.B. Jennings, his owner. Jennings evened up by claiming Decoy from Dosa for 25. Doss then claimed . Tar Hill fiom W. M. Murry for 25.
