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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Beginning with January 1, 1903, the jockeys riding at New Orleans will have quite an incentive to pnt forth their beat efforts in the saddle. The Crescent Ciiy Jockey Clnb offers the following prizes: To the jockey having the highest "percentage" of winning monnts at the close of the season March 24. 1900 the clnb will give 00 in gold; to the second, 0. and the third, 0. Any jockey suspended for fraud will be disqualified from winning any part of the prize, regardless of his "percentage. The word "percentage" in the foregoing is rather ambiguous and misleading and does not appear to convey what was really meant. For instance, a boy could come here and ride and win one race only. His "percentage" would then be 100. This would clearly ba an injustice to his fellow jockeys and sgainst the spirit of what waB intended. The conditions governing the awarding of the prizes should be made more explicit. New Orleans Picayune. Sydney Paget is about to leave us and return to England, where he has already been eerlled "in the regiment of rough riders that is being recruited for the purpoee cf annihilating the warlike Boers. Mr. Paget feela it his duty to answer his countrys call and to forego the pleasures of high life on Broadway for the hardships and vicissitudes incidental to the life of the hard-riding devil-mty-care British trooper. He will find the road to Pretoria a much more difficult one than the read to Mandalay. Mr. Paget was William C. Whitneys manager on the turf, and filled that position in an extremely satisfactory manner to his employer, who greatly regrets that he most part with him. The Pagets have invariably answered "yes" to the roll call when England baB. called upon her sens to eervo her. Morning Telegraph. J. O. Donner died in New York recently. The deceased was superintendent of the American Sugar Refining Company and was an expert in the business, commanding a salary said to be 50,000. He was also prominent ia turf circles, being a member of the Jockey Clnb and owning a breeding farm at Bams ays, N. J., and a racing stable. He owned Gircfls, and raced her, as well as Kingtton in his two-year-old form, nd bred Bamapo, winner of the Suburban in 1891. In the name of E. V. Scedeker and Co., a few years ago, his colors wero often soen at the front, anc he was an enthusiastic turfman us well as a breeder, bnt not on a vory large scale. Philip J. Dwjer has decided that tho exactions of owning a Btable and managing it are too great for him to continue as a turfman on an extensive ecale. He is extremely desirous to Boll hiB entire stable and to withdraw from the turf as an owner. The Brooklyn turfman says: "If a buyer does not appear I will sell the entire outfit, including saddles and all the appurtenances, in the early Bpring. Of course, I will not permit my colors to disappear, but will purchase a horse from time to time and have him trained in a public stable, thereby avoiding the annoyances and heavy expense of a large establishment."
