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i i GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Barney Schreiber arrived from San Francisco Thursday, and after spending a day in renewing acquaintances and in inspecting a half dozen of his horses now at the Lakeside track, left for ,St. Louis. The major portion of his string is at St. Louis, but he expects to keep a strong division here and will conduct a racing campaign here as well as at St. Louis. Afterthe racing there is over he intends to bring all of his horses to this city and race them here exclusively. He had a profitable and satisfactory season in San Francisco in all respects and speaks in the highest terms of the racing season there, particularly praising the management of the sport at the Oakland track. Necessarily he views the performances of Sofala with profound satisfac-I tion but Barney says he has other good ones yet to be introduced to the public. A special from Louisville to yesterdays Enquirer says: "Mr. Ed Corrigan, after a flying visit to his farm near Midway, spent yesterday afternoon at the track, and left last night for Chicago. He was very much pleased with the way he found matters at the farm, and especially with the looks of his yearlings. He has nine from which he is confident he will get some good ones. Seven of them are by the Kentucky Derby winner Riley, and the other two are by Likely. All are finely bred on their dams side. Old Riley, Mr. Corrigan says, has been seen in public for the last time. The old fellow when taken up at Frisco la6t winter showed all his old-time speed, but he soon bowed a tendon which, of course, made it necessary to again retire him. A person might naturally suppose that a horse which had been in the stud for several years would when taken up and put in training be vicious and fractious, but according to Mr. Corrigan this was not true in the case of Riley. He was as docile as any old horse that had been racing right along, and a sixty-pound boy could handle him. It is easy to see that the Master of Hawthorne, who has not always been actuated by sentiment, has a warm spot in his heart for Riley. Mr. Corrigan in his racing over in England expects to have Tod Sloan do most of his riding. In his foreign venture the big Chicagoan will have the well wishes of western turfmen generally,"
