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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. J" Jim Baker who is racing horses at Latonia is much iaconsed at the manner in which Fonoda was used by the assistant starter while at the post last Thursday. Foneda was brought back to tho Btable pretty wall cut up. This is not fcho first complaint that has been made at the present Latonia meeting according to tho Cincinnati Enquirer. Tho trainers and owners havo themselves to blame. They make their kicks to each other. They should go to the judges. When a starter or his assistant strikes a horse at the post he violates Bule 125 of the Western Jockey Clubs racing rales. It rsads k3 follows : " With the sanction of the ofBceiB of the association the starter may appoint his asaistante, and neither he nor his assistants nhall strike a jockey or horse at the post or use abusive language, and for violation of this rule tho judges shall impose a fine." In a recent letter from England, Capt. T. B. Merry "Hidalgo" says: "The truth io that America is a progressive country whilo England is weighted down by tho musty tradition of the past. This is more or less evident in all things, bnt especially so in racing. At Newmarket they have six or teven different courses, and the Cesarewitch, through which I stood through a pouring shower of rain, Is run over half a mile away from the finishing lPOBt of the two-year-old race which had just preceded it. On our American courses, all the races are! terminated at one given point; and yet, if there was one man tHat walked across the field to sea the finish for the great autumn handicap, there wero five thousand. How long would any American track last as a business investment where peoplo would have to pay admission to these separate stands in one afternoon? Such methods are not only pliocene but usinine. I gave these otherwise practical psopie credit for more sec so. But they seem to be tied up to what their forefathers did in the years that have flown. My only wonder is that they domot wear steel armor in battle like they did in the days of Cressy and Agincourt; and yet I have met with no more hospitable people than those are; and when they have invited you to their houses, you will find out there is nothing too good for you." In the same letter he says: "John Mackey, superintendent of the Bancho del Paso, has been here for several days, but I have not met him. He purchased Mr. Corrigans horse Greenan, by St. Simon Sunrise, and has already shipped him to California to take the place of the dead St, Andrew. Qret nan won the Great Yorkshire Stakes of 1899 and was a stayer from Stayorville. He is a small horse, how-aver, which was against him when called upon fio assume handicap weights according to his performances. He comes from the same line of mares as the Cesarewitoh winner, Balsarroch, and IthiB ought to guarantee that he will breed cup horses if properly mated, Mr. Corrigan, at fihe same time, purchased tho once popular race horse Dnnlop, by Ayrshire, for 25, and will probably send him to the Monument Banch, near Sacramento. The horse sold for ,500 as a yearling and has gradually bean bringing lees it every eucceading sale. He may make a good liire, however, and I eupposa that is about all fihat Mr. Corrigan wants of him." A Cincinnati newspaper of yesterday says that he story about the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company trying to buy Latonia race track for the purpose of erecting car shops, has bobbed Upafcalli. Charles Mason, Covington real astata agent, is Quoted as follows: "I hava bean authorized by President Milton H. Smith to make the offer for the land comprising the track, and may say that the directory of the company has the purchase of the same this moment under consideration. The land is best situated to answor the requirements of the company for a site upon which to erect a plant where everything from a coupling pin to a locomotivo will be made outright. Their plan is to remove their shops from Louisville and other points along the road and concentrate all of them into one immonso plant at Latonia." "There is absolutely no truth in the statement that the officials of the Latunia Club are considering a proposition of that kind," said Judge George G. Perkins. "Positively no proposition of that nature has ever been made to the Latonia Club by the L. and N. Bailroad Company or by Mr. MaBon. Mr. Mason may havo beon authorized by Mr. Smith to make tho offer, but he has failed to follow any instruc tions ha might have received to that effect." Cap and Balls, by Domino Ben My Chroe, by Galopin, 1b the only American-bred filly that ever won the English Oaks. There is a weanling-now at Castlxton, a brown filly, by KingstonBen MyXhreo, which the colored handler, Walkor, says is better than Cap and Bells was at the same age. If this is true, Mr. Jamas B. Eeene may be able to win the Oaks for a sscond time. Tha brown filly by Kingston Bonnie Gal, dam of Disguise II., who in 1900 won the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket, worth 0,-000, beating among others Diamond Jubilee, is pronounced by Walker the beBt weanling of her sex that he ever had anything to do with. This means that in his opinion eha is better than Firenzi. She is a rangy, good-tempered filly, and doubtless will make a great name for herself on the turf. Danny Maher is not to be jockey for the Duke of Devonshire after all, A. Cooper, who had joint claim on his services with the late Pierre Lorillard, being opposed to tha arrangement. Nevertheless, Maher haB been engaged for next season by the stables of T. Blackwell and Richard Marsh, tbo latter of whom trains the horses belonging to King Edward, and for the present running in the Duke of Devonshires name. Tha salary to be paid him is a princely one 5,000 per annum and it is needless to say that he will hava some of tha best horeeB on the turf to ride. W. Allison, who is an old-time writer and the special commissioner of "the Sportsman, recently wrote of Maher that "he was the best jeekey he had ever Boon," That is praise, in-dead, coming from a most competent judge, who has been intimately acquainted with the riding and riding methods of noted artists such as Chaloner, Grinehaw, Custance, Fordham, Archer, Wobb, Wood and many other such colebri-ties. Cash Sloan, brother of the famous Tod Sloan and quite a rider himBelf, arrived in New York last Wednesday on the North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilholm der Grosso. A New York exchange has this to say about him: Almost the first to come down she gangplank was Cash Sloan. "Well, Im mighty glad to get back, you can bet," he Baid, as he shook hands with several friends who rushed forward to great him. "Not that Ive not had a good time of it, but you know theres only one little old United States." In . speaking of his successes abroad Sloan Baid: "I suppose you know that most of my riding haB been dona for Jean da Beszka, the opera singer, but sscond call for my servicsB was hold by a Mr, Bloch, a banker of Warsaw, and a well known person on tho Russian tracks. For that matter I guess his name goas at almost any European track. "To say that tho Russians are a fine set of peoplo would not bo doing them justice. Money is no object with them when it comes to racing. As to their treatment of American jockeys, why they cant do enough for them. Russians race for two reasonB, the one ia for the sport of it, and the other is the honor to be gained. So far aa the money gained that is a fifth or sixth consideration. Those fellows over there spend money bo quick and bo much of it that it makos your head spin. "There is the greatest demand in Russia for American jockoys, and, for that matter, American horsoB I almost had forgotten to mention that in tho spring meet I rodo for Mr. Bloch forty-two mounts, and of that number won, or rather ran in the money, thirty-five times, while I had eleven wins. "Mr. De Beszke won 7,000 more rubles than ever were won in one season in tho history of the Bussian turf, in all aggregating about 180,-CC9 rubles. I rode his two American 2-yaar"-olds, Santiago and Dakota, but over there they are known as Bussian horses. You sob thoro is a rule governing foreign entries. "A horso born outside of Russia and entered in any race on a Bussian track must carry fifteen pounds extra, but if tho ontry bo a mare then sho only has to carry seven pounds extra. Accordingly, when Mr. De Beszke decided to enter Santiago and Dakota in BusBia he had their dams shipped to his place in Poland, and the two two-year-olds were foaled there, which, according to the Bussian way of figuring it out, makes them Bussian two-year-olds, otherwise they would hava had to carry the weight prescribed, or have been disqualified." That practical horseman, P. Byan, told the representative of a San Francisco papar recently that honors were even between Endurance by Bight and Goldsmith as regards the best two-year-old he had seen last summer. Said he: "The former was unquestionably the champion filly, and in the opinion of tho majority of horsemen Goldsmith was tha fastest colt, but just whether Endurance by Bight can beat Goldsmith I have Bome doubt." "I agree with you that Goldsmith was the best of the colts," said Green B. Morris, who heard Ryans words. "There were eome who thought Nasturtium was the best, and some Yankee, but if Mr. Whitney would let me take my pick of his colts I would select Goldsmith. Endurance by Bight, 1 think, is the greatest filly I ever saw carry a saddle." "Bnt you would not pick Enduranco by Bight for a sensational filly if you never saw her rase," added Mr. Byan. "She iB not a big animal. If anything, she is under the average size, but she is built close to the ground, has a short, stock body a body very much like a stair lion and a clean, stout pair of legs. In motion she has a smooth, oasy action and mows down the ground faster than she looks to be. It is wonderful what a gap she can open up, and maybe you dont have to travel some to catch her." Among the stables that will winter at Shoeps-head are J. H. McCormicks, Frank Browns. F. McCabes, T. Monahans, James Shields, Al Hoffmans, Tom Greens, G. H. Averys, Peter Wimmers, Bill Beckats, J. McLaughlins, L. Elmoies and William Scullys. McCormick will ship eight to California for the winter. He will not go himself, prafaring to etay and care for those left behind.
