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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Mrs. Byron McClelland had the misfortune to Iobo last Tuesday the handsome weanling colt, by Henry of Navarre Sallie McClelland. This is the third foal of Sallie McClelland that has been the victim of unfortunate circumstances, The first foal from the noted race mare was a bay colt by Longfellow, that broke his leg right at the hock, and was destroyed. The next foal to have a mishap is now a yearling, a well-shaped miss by Henry of Navarre. When a Buckling, her dam slipped, and, falling on the filly, almost crushed the life out of her. She recovered from the accident, but her injury on her right hind quarter was so great that she is unfit for racing. Now the weanling brother has just died a loss not only to Mrs. McClelland, but also to the racing world. No prediction for turf triumphs could have been extravagant for the handsome colt by Henry of Navarra Sallie McClelland, respectively the best horse and mare that ever wore the green and orange made famous by the late Mr. .McClelland. The Henry of Navarre Sallie McClelland colt died on Sunday, and we are also informed by Mra. McClellands, brother, Mr. John Smith, who trains the string of horses in the summer and looks after the stock farm in the winter, that this is not the only fatality on the farm. On Tuesday the highly-prized yearling filly, by Henry of Navarre Bettie C. dam of Faithful, Farine and Fair Faith, by Harry OFallon died of the same diseaee from which the other colt died. Thoroughbred Record. There are other American handicaps equal to the Suburban from a monetary point of view, but in respect to the interest with which its decision is annually awaited it is beyond doubt, by general content, the foremost. It has this advantage over the Brooklyn, that the de- cision of the latter coming first gives, or ib supposed to give, a line to its probable winner, or at least to the form of the handicap horses. Of comae, the idea generally proves fallacious in practice but it serves sometimes to make a hot but misplaced favorite, as iu the case of Bauastar last June, and in each year surrounds the race with a huge volume of speculation, comment and enthusiasm that fitly finds its culmination when 30.000 temporary maniacs shout and scream their adulation of the winner. Last year Imp upset one of the pet traditions of the race and it is quite on the cards that 1900 may witness the downfall of another. If one may draw deductions from exhibitions of Bpeed of high order, great weight carrying capacity and ability to stay over ary route, the year 1899 furnished an unusual number of remarkably good two-year-olds that went into winter quarters sound and good, and it is by no means improbable that the winner next year may come from their number. No three-year-old has as yet won a Brooklyn or Suburban, but one will ultimately do so and the outlook for nest year hints strongly of the possibility of such an occurrence. Entries to tho Suburban as well as to the other opulent stakeB now proffered by the Coney Island Jockey Club, close Wednesday, January 3, and it will be a strange thing if the numbar of three-year-olds entered does not turn out to be largely in excess of the records of recent years. The same considerations apply aB strongly to the Brooklyn, it is true, except in the feature that tho later date at which the Suburban is run giveB the younger horses a better chance for success in tho latter. Up to and including Saturday owners at New Orleans whose horses had won for them 00 or more were as follows: L. V. Bell ,981 J. H. Smith 37 F. Beagan 1,666 K. J. Murphy 776 G. C. Bennett 1,313 B. E. Beach 702 T. Nepper 1,250 W.Gnm..... 700 W. J. Roach 1,200 C. K Burdeau 700 H. Robinson 1,116 A. H.andD. H.Morris 690 J. J. McCafferty.. 1,028 Egleyand Ligor 658 D. W. Kelly and Co. 985 G. Lund 610 J. Arthur and Co... 914 W.R. Griffin 525 ! Among the other rules to go into effect January 1 is one that will work a great improvement i in the condition of many of the boya who are 1 now riding. It is that which prohibits an owner from appropriating to his own use the riding fees of apprentice jockeys. There are a number of owners in the West who have been CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. i i 1 : . , : : : , , 1 GOSSIP OF THE TUBF. Continued from 1st Page. kept up by the earnings of boys bound out to them. About all the boys have had for their j work and for taking their lives in their handB j has been what they have had to eat and the clothes that have been supplied them. The contracts under whioh some of them have been riding are calculated to make thieves of them. The case of Jockey Combs, or, more correctly, ex-jockey Comba, for that boy has evidently gone all to pieces as far as riding is concerned, is a striking illustration of the need of such a rule as was adopted by the Turf Congress. Combs was for a couple of years among the foremost jockeys in the west. He waB always in great demand, and rode winner after winner, but, according to the contract which he worked, a contract entered into with his father, he could collect nothing for the hundreds of mounts which he had, while to his father was to be paid the insignificant sum of 00 per year for his work. It was the Combs case, according to Judge Bess, that led to the adoption of the new rule by the Turf Congress. Exchange. The three important stakes advertised by the Western Tarf Association of San Francisco close Saturday night. Their conditions are folly set out in the advertising department of this issue of Daily Racing Fobm. They are so liberal in termB and promise so much for the future of winter racing that owners and breeders in the middle west should extend to them a rich measure of patronage. Entry blaandks will be furnished at this office en application.
