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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Tha December sales of thoroughbreds began at Newmarket yesterday and will continue until Saturday. Excepting possibly the September sales at Doncaster these are the most im-portant sales of the year in England, and the offerings for this year are said to be unusually choice. The auctioneer is Mr. 8omerville Tat-tersall, and the most important consignment that will go under Mb hammer will be the horses in training from the stud of Mr. Kincaid, among which are Epsom Lad, the unBexed son of Ladas, who has been three times victorious over Diamond Jubilee. Bantoi, Volodyovski and other good ones. Epsom Lad will be sold, likewise the stallion Cateran Lad, by Ladas Catri-ona, by Bend Or, and the colt Black Band that lan second in the Cesarewitch and is considered one of the best looking colts in England, On other days will be Bold sush as Toddington, St. Monans, Alvoscot, Bampion, King of Coins, Sempronious, St. Maurice, Sir Edgar arid Or-vieto, the thirteen-year-old eon of Bend Or and Napoli. "Why is it that the no recall system is such a great enccaes in England, France and Austria, and is as yet not a distinct success in America!" asked a racing man of great experience in all the conntrieB named, "We can supply all those countries with first-class trainers and riders, apparently, but if we were called on to Bupply j them with first-class starters we couldnt do I it." It is enongh to set people thinking, isnt it? What is the cause of our deficiencies and shortcomings on the starting question? Is it because the matter of ironclad discipline is not properly applied? We know from hearsay evidence that the jockeys aro much better in hand in all foreign countries than they are here. Imagine what would happen to a rider who in any one of those countries were to daro to be impudent, perhaps profane, to the starter. Imagine, if yoa can, any of the European starters eo far forgetting himself as to stop to bandy epithetB with any jockey who would be asinine enough to behave that way! "Oh, you go eat some pie!" for instance. It is eimply unimaginable. Yet, until the jockeys of America are properly meek and obedient, good tempered, free from malice and really moan to help tha starter, we may not expect any great improvement for years, or until a new generation of riders are in the saddle. Daily America.
