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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Tom Hayes sent his crack three-year-old, Royal Victor, to hie farm in Kentucky several weeks ago, and will not attempt to race the horse again until next season. Mr. Hayes thinks the crack son of Victory is the best race horse he ever owned. Royal Victor is the colt that annexed the big Tennessee Derby for Mr, HayeB at Memphis last Bpring. Mr. HayeB, by the way, will have one of the strongest stables in the west next season, provided his horses winter well. In Royal Victor and Lady Strath-mora he has a Btrong pair to represent him in the big handicaps, while in Runnels, he certainly has a promising candidate for Derby honors. Rubus and Jordan also promise to develop into shifty three-year-olds and the two-year-old division of the stable will doubtless be heard from favorably as it includes some grand lookers that are extremely well bred. The only drawback in the case is the fact that, as matters now stand, Mr. Hayes is barred from racing next year over the Western Jockey Club tracks. "When you come right down to it a horseman is treated far better in the west than he is on the big metropolitan tracks," said a well-known owner, who haB just returned from New York. "Take the St. Louis tracks for instance.. Here they hang up 00, 00 and 00 purses and the stake events havejfrom ,000 to ,000 added. In comparison to their net gross proflta this is three times as much money as the eastern tracks distribute among owners. Out there they charge to get into the grandstand and they have 100 bookmakers paying 0 or 0 per day, and the same number on the dead line paying about 5 apiece. Here in St. Louis the admission is only and they have fourteen or fifteen books paying 00 per day. Figuring on this basis, which is a correct one, the eastern tracks are making ten timea as much money as the St. Louis tracks, but the eastern horsemen are far from getting ten times as big purses to run for aa the St. Louis owners. The race track game is bo profitable out east that all the big politicians are now trying to break into it. Tim Sullivan wants to own a track and Bays he will have one ready to race over at Long Island next spring." St. Louis Republic. It should not be overlooked by owners of thoroughbreds that Rule 38 of the Rulea of Racing provides that all horses foaled in the United States or Canada must be registered by November 1 of the year in which they are foaled; that the fee for registration is S2 per head; that if the matter of registration is neglected until December 31, unintentionally or accidentally, a fine of 0 per head will be imposed, and that after that date a fine of 0 per head will be assessed. The 1st of November is right at hand, and delay means monoy wasted. Trainer Jamas H. Baker has announced that the crack two-year-old colt, Doyles Commoner, will not start again this year. He has developed a bunch on one of his hind legs and will be put out of training daring the winter. "The ailment does not amount to a great deal," said Trainer Baker, "but to be on the safe side I have concluded to take no chances .with it." After Trainer Baker had madetthe announcement that Doyles Commoner will be out Charley Hughes said: "I think that is one Jof the best colts in the country today. He is a wonder. He is easily the bsst of the youngsters that racod with tho Turf CongresB contingent this year. He was never straightened out daring the entire Beason, with he exception of the time that he met Springwells in that six furlong dash at Fort Erie. I had a look at himltoday and I do not think his trouble is lasting, He will be all right for racing in the spring." H. B, Durham has purchased the bay horse Al Fresco, foaled 1895, by Eolus Gladiola, by Glengarry, and he will go into the stud at Horse Haven Stock Farm, near Lexington, Ky.
