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EASTERN TD1SF GOSSIP. Joseph Leiter of Chicago will have a racing stable next year in conjunction with W. J. Arkell. Messrs. Leiter and Arkoll will have all pink for racing colors and a first-class jockey will be engaged before another campaign begins. At pretoct they havo twenty-four year- i lines. "Tluy arc a most promising lot," Bald Mr. Arkoll, recently, "and ought to turn out some stake horses. It is a lottery, yon know, but we are hoping for the bast." The horses belonging to Messrs. Leiter and Arkell will winter at Benninga, where they will be looked after by Law Elmore. Sheepshead Bay, by the way, is harboring a large number of horses for the winter than ever before. Gravesend is also well patronized. 1 W. C. Whitneys arrangement whereby ho secured tho use of the Bancocas Stock Farm from Mrs. Lillian Barnes Allien was the racing sensation of the week. Mr. Whitney will move his great stud to Rancocas very soon. He has given orders to institute many improvements at Bancocas, which bids fair to be the largest breeding establishment in the United States. It is Mr. Whitneys plan to keep his racing .stable entirely separate from the farm. When the winter ia over Nasturtium, Yankee, Goldsmith, Endurance by Right, Blue Girl, Morc-injsido, Gnnfira, Protorius, Gold Beaker and the now crop of twu-yoaroids will receive their preliminary training at 8hoap3hoad Bay. Mr. Whitney is confident that RaccosaB will produce eomo great thoroughbreds. IrcidrrttcUy, it in ficid, BoUhcc Bcr hir a chance to get over his wind trouble and may blossom out next season as a hish-clasB four-year-old. Frad Taral, tho well-known jockoy. has juBt returned from a long campaign in Austria, where he scored a remarkable series of success. "I had plenty to do all tba tiasa I waa thore," said Taral yesterday. "There was not a day when I did cot have a mount. In Austria thay raco on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundc je and tho sport is fino. The paopla show more approbation of a jockoy there than they do here. But it is not possible to make as much money in Austria as in England. When the Boason was about over I received an offer to ride next year in Russia, but Austria is good enough for me. I intend to spend sevoral months here and will go back to Austria in tho spring," Taral looks well and has not taken on weight enough to make it impossible for him to secure good mounts should he look for them in this country. Contracts for the rebuilding of the Saratoga track have been awarded and an effort will be made to have everything completod by early summer. Tb.9 track is to be modoled after the Sheepshead Bay course, with .the exception of the Futurity stretch. It will bo a mile and an eighth in circumferenco and will be very fast, though not too hard. It will be wide enough to enable the starter to handle any kind of a field. The grandstand will be bo enlarged that it will accommodate 6,000 parsons. The batting ring, paddock, clubhouse and other buildings will have to bo moved. W. C. Whitney and his associates have planned to make the Saratoga track the finest in America. They have already made it attractive to horsemen by hanging up Borne of the richest purses to bo run for next year. New York Sun.
