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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The new secretary of the Brighton Beach Racing Association, T. M. Jackson, announces a lorgr list of stakes to close for the meeting of 1900 on January 11, 1900, End two new stakes of importance to close December 0, 1899. The new stakes far eclipse anything that has been previously attempted at Brighten Beach, and are both very valuable events. It is only a pity that more time haB not been given before the closing to enable horsemen and breeders in distant stations of the country to learn of the existence of theEe races. The Foxhall, which will be run for by two-year-olds foals of 1899 in 1901, will be an event of a guaranteed value of 5,CC0, at six furlongs. It is a condition event, with winning penalties and non-winning allowances, as well as breeding allowances. The allowances are cumulative. The Produce Stakes, which will not be run for until 1E02, is a complicated event. The total groEB value is guaranteed to be 5,000, but the stakes will be run for in two races, one for colts and geldings, the other for fillies only. The value cf the race is to be apportioned on a novel plan. If 60 per cent of the eligible produce are colte, 60 per cent of the money goes to the colt and gelding race and 40 per cent to the filly race, and vice versa. The other stakes that close January-11 are virtually the same as heretofore. The Brighton Gup, at two and one-quarter miles, has ,000 added, and haB no conditions, and the Brighton Hendicap, at one and one-quarter miles, with a similar amount of money added, are the chief eventB. There is a greal deal of superstition among owners about having their horses pictures taken. If an owner has a noted horse in the stable the man-with-a-camera is ever about. Barney Scbreiber Bhipped Bannockburn to California at the close of the Eastern season. Now, Bannockburn was rated as one of the best handicap horseB about New York last summer. He carried Fat Dunnes colors to victory repeatedly and beat good horseB. The camera man was on deck as soon as Bannockburns arrival was reported, but no pictures were taken. Barney gave orders to keep Bannockburn away from the machine. After Marplot failed on his hands Barney resolved never to have another good horse of his exposed to a camera. "Marplot could win a race when I had him in the east," said Barney last night, "but after he got here and had his picture in every paper he was not worth 10 cents. When I sent Bannockburn west I told my trainer to keep him in the stall and allow none of them kodak fellows near him. I wanted him to win before he had his picture taken." San FranciEco Bulletin. "When a trainer thinks he has got a real good thing he is the most confident creature in the world," observed Charley Sanders, the well-known trainer. "Ho sees nothing else in the race but his own. I remember one day I was at Guttenberg and a friend of mine gave me C0 to bet on a horto called Roy Lochiel, which had juBt been shipped there from the west. We knew very little about the horse, but my friend got a tip somewhere that he was a good thing that day. Jimmy Farrelt, who ib now in the employ of Tommy Lottridge, had charge of Boy Lochiel. In tho eamo race Tom Welch, another good friend of mine, bad a horso callod Chartreuse, w hich I knew he was sweet on. When I got this 00 to bet on Boy Lochiel I told him he had better go slow about betting on him. I told him I had thia money to bet on the Western horse. If he beats me he is a ringer, said Welch. Ill win sure. No he isnt a rinrer, said I. He is duly registered and his won some raceB in the west. But Welch would not believe me, even when I assured him positively that he was registered. Well, the race came off and my horse was first all the way. Welch was the most disappointed man you ever saw. He rushed over to the telegraph office and wired to his partner, who was at Gloucester, to protest the payment of the purse, for Chartreuse had been beaten by a ringer. We were a long time satisfying Welch that there was no ringer in the race." The richest Great Trial Stakes, three-fourths of a mile for two-year-olds, was that of 1S91, won by His Highness, 2,095. The richest Futurity was that of 1890, won by Potomac, 7,675. The richest Realization was that of 1889, won by Salvator, 4,100. In 1899 David Garricks Great Trial was worth 7,140; Cha-cornacs Futurity, 0,620, and Etheiberts Realization was worth 2,890. Conditions change as the years go by. Turf, Field and Farm. According to the Racing Calendar, W. OB. Macdonough has leased the following yearlinga until January 1, 1902: Bay filly, by St. Carlo-Santa Bella, and bay colt, by St. Carlo Parti-sana, to R. Van Brunt; chestnut filly, by St. Carlo Agrippina, and chestnut colt, by St. Carlo Bud, to Ed Lanagan; bay filly, by St. Carlo Eliza, bay filly, by St. Carlo Moonlit, chestnut filly, by St. Carle Princess Idle, and bay gelding, by True Briton Kosciolottie, to John Weber; chestnut colt, by St. Carlo Aerolite, bay filly, by St. Carlo Marilee, black colt, by St. Carlo Mercedes, and bay filly, by Dr. Nave Namora, to W. M. Murry and Ed Pureor.
