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GOSSIP OF THE TIJBF The California Jockey Club has leased the Emeryville racetrtck for ten years at 5CO a month The lease provides for an option on tho Irack for seven years more on the same terms The lease is nontransferable except as security for the OOOCO indebtedness of the California Jockey Club to the Mercantile Trust Company Margaret M Mee in her own behalf Breeder and Sportsman Among the American jockeys doing good work abroad is Fred Taral who according to the SportZeitung of May 30 is making a bright record On May 26 there were seven races at Vienna with Taral first and Hamilton third in the first Taral Doggett and Morgan all un ¬ placed in tho second Doggett second Taral third in the third Taral first and Morgan third in the fourth Morgan first Taral unplaced in the sixth The next day Taral did some of the work that has been keeping his average up to such a high pitch for in four mounts he was unbeaten In one race only four horses started and Taral Hamilton and Doggett rode three of them Taral has had a phenomenal record since April Of his first eightyone races he won forty Trainer Jim Dyer who recently spent a few weeks holiday in England saw much of his brother American trainers at Newmarket dur ¬ ing his stay there and gave him every opportun ¬ cheaper scale though it cannot be equally as good and American trainers abroad would do well to stick to first principles even if they do come high which advanced funds to secure the bonded debt of the San Francisco Jockey Club assumed by the California Clnb when the recent consoli ¬ dation was effected Provision is made that in case hostile Isgislation should make racing un ¬ profitable the track may be used for some other form of amusement Bat no saloons stores restaurants or hotels other than those already conducted at the grandstand shall ba per ¬ mitted on the grounds At the expiration of the lease all improvements made by the jockey club shall become the property of the owner Mrs Margaret Mee The club is bound to carry at least 60000 insurance with which to replace losses by fire and to provide facilities for fight ¬ ing fire All due diligence is to be need by the club in preventing damage or loss from this source All the present structures lawns and fencing as well as any other h tractates erected in future must be kept in firstclass condition by the lessee and no improvements may ba ad ¬ ded taken down or altered without tho consent of Mrs Mee The taxes are to be paid by the jockey club The lease is signed by T H Wil ¬ liams and R B Milroy for the club and by ity of seeing the way in which English training is conducted One thing which struck him more particularly was that both Wishard and Hug gins have become quite Anglicised and changed considerably from their original American methods They follow the English system of making their little exercise boys do up their own horses instead of employing big rubbers for tho purpose He thought this was decidedly a move in the wrong direction since no little shaver can possibly rub and cool out a horse after work so well as a strong man and he did not fail to epeak about it The explanation in defense was that it was principally a question of wages American rubbers are unwilling to work for the wages paid by trainers in England and the only American rubber employed by Wiehard is used not for rubbing but for attend ¬ ing to bad legged horses bandaging etc which Wishard says he cannot gat done satisfactorily by the English boys Quito a few rubbers from about New York have tried their fortunes in England but all return home dissatisfied vrith the poor pay obtainable It looks therefore as if the English system is conducted on a
