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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Now that the American joskeys are becoming persona non grata in England, the heavy boys of this country are looking to other fields of conquest. The great success attained by Cash Sloan and Fred Taral on continental courses has aroused in many of our heavy weight boys a desire to go and do likewise. The recent success of Eddie Ames in Australia has turned the eyes of every knight of the pigskin in that direction. Bullman is the latest rider to announce his intention of following in Amos footsteps. Bullman announces that he will certainly go to Auetralia in tha coming spring. He is held in high regard by a host of racing people, and will be missed. At the sale of thoroughbreds at tha Occidental Exchange. San Francisco, December 3, yearlings sited by St. Carlo brought very satisfactory prices. Burns and Waterhouss paid ,5C0 lor Coronal, b. c, by St.-Carlo Orollana, by Ormonde. The 8t. Carlo Moonlight gelding was socur6d by L. McCreery for 1,100. John Campbell waB the purchaser of the St. Carlo-Santa Crnz Ally for 00. Lord Carew, by St. Carlo Lady Marmion, was knocked down to Fred Edwards for ,200. Burts and Watorhouse "bought Young Marlow, by St. Carlo Marilee, ior 5930, while Qus Abercrombie paid 81,000 for Revolt, by Bt. Carlo Anarchy. Major F. A. Daingerflald, mastor of Castleton 3tud, Lexington, Kj., has received a letter from James B. Keene, stating that the stallions at Castleton will be absolutely privato next season. This, of course, does not apply to Handspring, the property of P. J. Dwyer, as the good boh, of Hanover has stood public at Castleton for S3V-aral seasons. The rule applies to every stallion at tho place owned by Mr. Keene, and the list is now a long one, including Kingston, Commando, Horoscopa, Ben Brush, Voter and St. Leonards. Iu the same letter Mr. Keene, by specifying -that he would restrict a gift season to Commando to tho vory lowest limit of close personal friends, intimated that he ezpscted the eon of Domino to take his sires place. ilt will ba a matter of iutorest to turfmen generally to know that Garry Hermann, the 0,000 colt, favorite in tho winter books for tho Kentucky and American Derbies of this year, I will race the coming season and he is now being prepared at Churchill Downe by trainer "Bob" Tucker. Garry Hermann, it will be remem bared, I was scratched from the Kentucky Derby, not 1 because his owner, Capt. S. S, Brown, of Pittsburg, did not think him good enough to win i that coveted event, but for the reason that he i wiehod to save him for the American Derby, and as .every follower of the turf will remember, the colt, after a burst of speed at Hawthorne in I a raca preparatory to the American Derby, j broke a blood vessel, causing what was feared at tho timo his permanent retirement from tha , turf. Since then he has been nursed along carefully and is considered physically perfect again. Trainar James Dyer is on his first visit to this country since his engagement to Count do Lut-czenbacher, who is one of the racing magnates Hungary. The Lutczenbacher estata is situated iof about sixteen miles from Buda Pesth. I There is a fine two-milo turf track and it is a good training ground. Trainer .Dyer trains in tho American Btylo, with a watch. Re has a man stationed at every furlong cole with a flag that he dips as soon as the racer reaches it. In this way, Btanding on the training stand, ha can split his watch at every furlong, and the time iB absolutely correct in every instance. He had a trying time of it with his Hungarian flag holders at first, but now they ara quite up to the mark and perform their duties admirably. Dyer had forty-eight horses in his charg e whon ha loft, and several of them promising. I The richest event of the Buda Pesth meeting is a six-furlong event for all ages, with conditions. It is worth about 0,000, and tha running is always witnessed by a concourse of people. The training methods in Hungary differ, greatly from those in vogue in this country. A racer is allowed all the oats he can e it, with very little hay. In this way he can eat close to sixtaen quarts of oats per day, whereas in the Amaric an method, which is ontirely different, ha is allowed all the hay he wautB and can rarely eat more than eleven or twelve quarts of oats d ur-ing twenty-four hours. As is the English custom, tho exercise boys "do" tho horses up. Also, as in England, there is too much rubbing, and tho racers are made savage in consaquence. Tho pay of the stabla men is not nearly as remunerative as it is here, for they get but 2 per month and pay for their own living. Cap a-ble jockeys are, however, liberally treated and havo ovary opportunity in their own stable for making monjy, At tho same time a jockey is restricted, in a way, to riding for his own stabla. Every establishment having its own riders, public riding doe3 cot receive the same encouragement that it does here. Tho Now Orleans Picayune of Docembar 9, commenting on the sport that is boing given to turf patrons there, has this to say: "The task of establishing Bport that would win the respect of the turfs followers the country over has been moro than tho average patron of the track can realize. Pr. jndice, jiat or unjust, had to be lived down. Happily the right sort of people undertook the work and in the right way. When profits were small and ill-feeling considerable, they labored on, hopoful for the success which they hava now obtained, Bacing, such as was furnished yesterday, will go to fill a bright page in turf history. All that is needed now is that this standard be lived up to. Any I retrogression will be disappointing and costly, for tho reason that the staff officials at call are well capable of regulating any coursejin the country."
