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GOSSIP OF THE TUBE1 It is reported that conflicts are to ba avoided on the Canadian circuit next year It io laid that an agreement has practically been made which contemplates a union of the interest which control the Windsor raee traek and tha Highland Park Jockey Club which operates the Fort Erie track across tho river from Buf ¬ falo as wall as the Highland Park plant in De ¬ troit Last year Windsor and Highland Park ran in opposition to each other and the result was disastrous to both associations ae was bound to be the case where there is not a popu ¬ lation anywhere near enough to support tve meetings at the same time That mistake haa not been made this year While there ie na longer any feeling between the Highland Park Jockay Club and the new Windsor Racing As ¬ sociation Windsor and Fort Erie have alashfrd this season Though there has not been scarcity of horses at either track it is a BUM thing that each would have dona better if it had had the field to itself To bring about such a condition in the fntnra the Highland Park Club and Meeare Chambers Walker and Wagner iba lessees of the Windsor track will ar ¬ range to have a circuit consisting of Wind ¬ sor Fort Erie and Highland Park Tho schema contemplates sixty days racing at Windsor a like period at Fort Erie and a thirtyday meet ¬ ing at Highland Park for a windup There will be racing on the proposed new circuit almost throughout the entire legitimate racing season If the idaao of Sam Wagner and his associates in Windsor are carried out there will ba few purses less than 300 and a number of valuable stakes to be decided at each of the three tracks The owners of the Windeor plant with such a circuit in view have already agreed to make further improvements They have given assur ¬ ance that they will move the grand stand quit a distance fnrther back and lay a eonoreta promenade in front of it They will also build several hundred additional stalls to accommo ¬ date the greatly increased number of horesa which will be gathered there The Highland Park Club wanted to enter into such an arrange ¬ ment as has boen suggested this season but ae Windsor and Fort Erie had both announced their dates it conld not well be done The grand filly Endurance by Bight had but few stake engagements in the west Those she was in she captured But she has many impor ¬ tant engagements in the east and has a busy and important autumn campaign in prospect At Bheepshead Bay she is entered in savon stakes They are the Partridge six furlongs on the turf course 1250 added the Flatbush seven fur ¬ longs 55000 guaranteed the Dash last five fur ¬ longs of the New Futurity course 1250 added the Flight for twoyearolds and upward saven furlongs 1500 added tbe Bolloa for fillies last five and a half furlongs of the New Futur ¬ ity course 1250 added the Golden Bod sir and a half furlongs on the turf course 1250 added and the Great Eastern Handicap six furlongs 7500 guaranteed She is also engaged in Gravesend stakes that closed August 15 but the entry lists thero have not as yet been pub ¬ lished At Westchester she is in the Bancho del Paso the Eclipse Course 1000 added the Silver Brook last five and a half furlongs of the Eclipso Course 1000 added the Nursery Handicap tho Eclipse Course 2500 added the Champagne Stake last seven furlongs of the Withers Mile 2500 added and tbe White Plains Handicap tho Eclipse Course 2000 ad ¬ ded Some of the stakes appear to be athot mercy in advance but in others she will be re quired to meet such good ones as Yankee Nas COXTDTUBD OJ SECOND FAGH GOSSIP OF THE TURF Continued from First Page taxrtium Blue Girl Cameron Disadvantage Goldsmith Brunswick Fly Wheel Cunard Dixieline Otis Smart Set Leonora Loring AllanaDale and others that rank as the picked ones of the year But if she retains her western form any one of those that beats her to the wire will truly know that he or she has been to the Colonel William S Barnes recently issued a catalogue of his famous Melbourne stud that is without a rival in point of good taste typog ¬ raphy costly material and artistic finish Bound in green and silver and printed on cost ly tinted paper and edited by John K String field it is a publication that any ono interested in the affairs of the turf and the problems of breeding would be pleased to have in his library It is handsomely illustrated with pict mres of the noted sires at Melbourne and land ¬ scape views of his farm and is altogether a eredit to Colonel Bill
