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EASTERN TURF GOSSIP Of matters immediately interesting to eastern followers of the turf the Sun of Monday says The saysThe action of the stewards of the Jockey Club in ruling jockey Combs and W P Ware off the turf for life means that both of them will be barred from every1 race track in the world It is the most serious punishment that can be inflicted and it is the first time in a number of years that the stewards have resorted to such drastic methods The simple revocation of a license was considered effective enough but in the cases of Combs and Ware the ex ¬ treme penalty was deemed necessary Ware is the man who originally brought jockey Landry here and turned him over to T J Healey It was said yesterday that Ware engineered the deal by which Combs received 500 for pulling Wax Taper on June 25 25The The riding of H Michaels during the past week was nothing if not effective enough to prove that tbia boy has the making of a preat jockey In two instances he met the noted Shaw in driving finishes and in each case the former triumphed It was only by superior riding too that enabled Michaels mounts to win and that fact made his success all the more noteworthy Shaws weakest point is in finishing He can only use his hands whereas nearly every other good boy is an adept with the whip Patsy McCue for instance is one of the strongest finishers be ¬ fore the racing public McCue by the way never rode better in his life than at present Several weeks ago the boy was a wreck He had been living a gay life and the riding of horses became a secondary issue with him But one day Tom Healey took McCua in hand read him a lecture and put him on hia feet with the prom ¬ ise of steady employment Since then McCne has been displaying gratefulness by riding superbly superblyComputes Computes victory in the Foxhall Stakes was the talk of the turf world yesterday It was generally agre d that the colt on bis work early in the spring should not have been over ¬ looked by the shrewd men who figure horses al the time Compute was full of promise when he first came out for this seasons campaign but he was seized with the coughing epidemic that took such a firm hold on a lot of good horses in the spring and was on the sick list for along titre Indeed it was said yesterday i OONTXNDED ON SECOND EAGH EASTERN TURF GOSSIP Continued from Fin Pag that when he went to the post for the Foxhall Stakes Compute was far from well and had it not been for the masterful riding of McCne ho would have been beaten possibly by both Hyphen and Goldsmith Aa it stands the two yearold situation is about as complex as it possibly can be beThough Though AllanaDale was signally beaton on Saturday his owner T C McDowell declared after the race that the Halma colt could not be purchased from him for less than 50000 It is said that Mr McDowell received an offer of 125000 for the colt last week and quickly re ¬ fused Mr McDowell by the way says that he haa not been engaged by W K Vanderbilt to train the letters horses but that he has entered Into a partnership with the wellknown million ¬ aire by which he will look after the latters in ¬ terests on the turf Mr McDowell will proba ¬ bly manage Mr Vanderbilts stable while a wellknown trainer will do the actual work of preparing the horses horsesAs As the Brighton meeting draws to a close the quality of the racing appears to improve daily On Saturday Starter Fitzgerald had a series of big fields to contend with and he handled tfcem well In the second race he got eighteen horses away so neatly that the crowd applauded Borne persons called the start in the Foxhall Stakes poor because from the stand the field appeared to got away from the barrier in two divisions As a matter of fact however the start could not have been more perfect Andrew Miller one pftk Btewardswaa at the post and he eaid that the horses were sent away with perfect alignment The twodivision scheme of send ¬ ing the horses away from the chute is due to a stretch of quicksand in the middle of the track which the jockeys wish to avoid As the starting point is at an oblique angle from the grandstand many persons are inclined to criticise starts as being poor when in reality they are perfect
