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GOSSIP OF THE TUB TUBThough Though the English stable lads have their grievances they are apparently much better off than boys following the same calling in France According to tho following from the Paris cor ¬ respondent of The Field the French boys are subjected to harsh if not cruel treatment With regard to the controversy which is going on as to the treatment of the boys employed in the racing stables of Chantilly while the British chaplain there only recently appointed takes it upon himself to say ex cathedra that there is nothing to complain of and that all is Oscar Browning and several others who have made it their business to get to the root of the matter tell us that the condition cf the lads is pitiable in the extreme that they are badly lodged and worse fed treated in many cases with great brutality and quite neglected so far as religious and moral instruction goes My own opportunities of seeing what really goes on in tho principal stables have not been very frequent but as far as my own knowledge and experience go I should say that the charge of neglect if not of positive cruelty is well founded There are exceptions of course and one may bo sure that trainers like the veteran T R Carter and several others of the old school will see that their head lads do not bully or maltreat the boys under their control but there are others who delegate all this to the head lads themselves who are in too many cases ignorant and brutal and under whom the stable boys lead a very hard life It is to be hoped that the proposal to submit the matter to the British Embaesy in Paris and to obtain tho appointment of a committee to investigate the charges will be carried through There will be a sale of thoroughbred yearlings at the Union Etock Yards at Chicago 111 July 8 and 9 1901 by Woodard Shanklin of Lex ¬ ington Ey This includes produce from the establishments of Mr O H Chenault of the Spendthrift Stud Mr T J Clay and Mr G H Clay of the Balgowan Stud Mr R L Baker Mr H C Muir Mr C Woodford of the Race land Stud Mr C F McMeekin of theOakwood Stud and Col L F Clay of the Runnymede Stud There will aleo a number of other breed ¬ ing establishments represented and additional entries are solicited Two exceedingly fine twoyearolds ran at Washington Park yesterday the great filly En ¬ durance by Bight and Mr T C McDowells colt Alan a Dale The latter a halfbrother to Batten end the flying Maid Marian made a most impressive debut running away from his field and winning by many lengths in fast time He is in tha Kenwood and Hyde Park Stakes and is a candidate of formidable pretensions
