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3 OSJIP OIL" 5XUIT. "Spooney" Ellison, the well-known steeplechase jockey, under contract to the S. C. Hi!-dreth stable, and about the best rider at the local tracks last summer, has arrived at New Orleans. He confirms the reported probability of the Hildrnth horses bnDg occssionally sent down from MemphiB for a try at the parses at tbe Fair Grounds. Ellison rode Filon dOr in all bis successful races at Harlem and Hawthorns, and regrets the coHe non-nntry in the Palmetto and other important fixtures to be run off at New Orleans. Ellison, who is a Canadian, a graduate of the Seagram stable, scored his first important win with Sallust in the Cotton Steeplechase at Memphis last spring. Later his continued success over the hurdles brought about his change of allegiance from the Moloney stable to S. C. Hildreth. It is said that the celebrated Bees-Murphy agreement, anect the respect due to each others decision before all other things, is still in force. The agreement was to the effect that Mr. Murphy respected all Mr. Bees decisions in case of fraud, and vice versa. It was imagined thai the devastation of the old Turf Congress nullified the agreement and made it inoperative. It does not seem so. Now it appears that Jockey Boscoe Troxler,- who was ruled off at New OrleanB some years ago by Mr. Bees, is having some trouble in getting permission to ride in California under Mr. Murphy. Ostensibly Mr. Bees ruled Troxler off for interfering with a competing horse. Troxler leaned over and yanked the rein of a horse ridden by W. OConnor. The punishment seemed rather severe for the offense committed, and it was shrewdly hinted that at the time Mr. Bees held an "ace" on Troxler which he did not spring for public edification. Those who watched Trox-lers work at St. Louis can readily understand many things that do not seem quite right. Daily America. In rogard to some of the workouts at the Crescent City track the New Orleans Picayune of November 23 Bars: "One of the fastest ihovpb of the morning was that made by tho Carey mare, Reseda. Trainer James sent her around the conrse a couple of times. She had a good-eized stable lad up. After being rubbed down ehe was ready for fast work. Her rider was instructed to break from the seven-eighths pole and work back to tho etand, and to give her her head all thn way. The maro broke away like a quarter horse, and af tsr being steadied a bit she settled down and moved along like a piece of clockwork. Har boy sat perfectly still all the way, and as she passed the stand the watches caught her in 1 :10. This was splendid work and shrowd judges pronounced it the best shown lay any horse up to dato. Pronta, from the same stable, went six furlongs in l:19i. "The Goldblatt stable was also much in evidence. The string was worked in sets of two. Jessie Jarboe and Dr. Hart wero the first to appear. McCann was on the former, while the etables lightweight jockey, Cogswell, was on the two-year-old. They broke together and were sent Bix furlongs. They covered the distance in 1 :15i, the first half in 48, and the five furlongs in 1:02. Jessie Jarboe beat the two-year-old about a length and a half. Goldblatt has great hopes of his new jockey Cogswell. The lad is certainly a promising boy. He can ride at something like 90 pounds, and all that ha neods is a few goods mounts to show his ability. The long distance performer of the stable, Deloraine, was sent three-quarters in 1 :16i. "dtava LHommedieus Inaugural candidate, The Bush, was breezed a half in 49 seconds, the firpfc thrp.oifhtbR beine covered in S6t. The rast of the string were given easy exercise. "George Arnold, who is considered by some the best horse at the track, was speeded through the stretch. He broke from the three-eighths post, and pulled up at the stand in SSi seconds. Bummer and Master Mariner worked five furlongs together in 1:06. The pair were under re-I straint all the way. Both are in good shape and will be heard from in the early sprint eventB. "Fake and Choice, of the Morris stable, were sent slow miles. The former was fighting for his head all the way, but his boy was content to rate him along at a little better than a two-minute gait. Choice went the distance in 1 :46. "Pepper Diok, a two-year-old which J. J. Murray, his owner, recently refused ,500 for, is in a bad way. He developed sickness while on his way from Cincinnati, and after being unloaded from the cars he was conveyed in an ambulance to Fords hospital. If he recovers he will hardly be seen at the post before next spring. According to an article in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of November 24, Clarence Mackay is not the only turfman on which the post fraud was attempted. Jt goes on to say that: "Many a supposed world beater which turned out to be a lobster .has. been sold for a cream price by manipulating the poles on the track over which the colt was tried ont. No less a personage than John E. Madden, the famous trainer and horse owner, wno is interested with Mr. W. C. Whitney in a number of horses, was once .caught by the post moving trick. The story is told by a Kentucky horseman who has been in the city for several weeks. Said he : "Yes, sir, they turned the trick on Madden a conple of years ago, but the story never got oat. John was down in Lexington looking for good colts. As is Mb custom, he had out a number of scouts looking for good things. One of these heard of a colt which was then owned by . George Hinkle, at Lexington, and he brought the information that this colt was to be worked j ont early the following morning. Hinkle, tho owner, did not know that Madden or any one elso was to watch his colt work, and, in fact, he was not aware that the half-mile post had been moved over forty yards. "Bright and early the next morning Madden quietly made his way to the track and awaited developments. In the dim light he ojhusfc see the colt start from the half mile post. He Bnappod his watch, and whan the colt finished he found that he had workod in the very fast time of 48i seconds. Madden lost no time in hunting up Hinkle. What do yon want for that colt? inquired he, and when Hinkle, who did not realize what was doing, said ,700, Madden wrote out a check and took tha colt. Tho colt was named Nenberger. Madden shipped it to Louisville and was naturally surprised when he found that the colt could not work anything near the time ho caught him in at Lexington,- He figured that perhaps the colt wfiB off a little and he shipped him east. There he became satisfiod that he had been gold-bricked. He never said a word, however, and gavs Neubergor away, and he is still running around hero in the west, but I dont think he is out of tho maiden class yet, though he is a five-year-old. I saw him run at Chicago last summer. It only goes to show that even the wisest fish sometimes nibble at a bait, but Madden was wise enough never to let tbe story get out that he had been hoodwinked." They are having a rather violent time of it down around Bennings, as is attested by tbe following dispatch from a New York sporting authority: "If all reports are true that are brought over from tbe Bennings race track by prominent horsemen who pay eemi-weekly visits to New York, the sport of the kings has found a most inglorious ending after the moBt brilliant season in the east since racing became a sport. It appears that since the wealthy horse owners, the leading bookmakers and the big bettors have removed from the turf for the year the sport has fallen into tbe hands of the Philistines, so to speak, and the sland erouB action of many layers and writers at the Washington track is condemned in no moderate terms by the best patrons of the game. In these days one scarcely reads of anything but scandal attached to the racing at Bennings. Those who are best able to judge of the merits and demerits of a race declare the sport is as clean as it was at Sheepshead Bay. They maintain that the bookmakers, who have not been quite as successful at Washington as they hoped to be, have not had the guiding hand of the big layer, who dropped out when the finish cams in New York. For that reason each layer now doing business at the Wasnington meeting is compelled to tax his own knowledge of tho running qualities of the horses. In hiB battle with the public the layer has discovered to his sorrow that the bettors are putting it on him, and he haB resorted to the cry of fraud. " I have never witnessed the scenes that are enacted at Bennings, said a well-known horse owner on a recent over-night stop in New York. The public has cleaned up a little on the bookmakers during the maeting, and the latter are loud in their claim that they are being cheated by horse owners and jockeys. They hold out horses that they make favorites without any regard aa to what the public may think of their judgment, and when a hoavily backed second or third choice walks away with the coin they are adverse to giving the public credit for knowing something and immediately set up a cry of fraud. This occurs in almost every race. It is disgusting and uncalled for and should be Btopped." The Monon, a two-year-old, brother to Moroni, in Waldos stable, now at New Orleans, has inharitad from his sire a propensity forfa distance of ground. He is still a maiden, but his ability to go a route of anything farther than a mile and a quartar haB basu often and amply 1 demonstrated in his works.
