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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The Brighton Beach Bacing Association has just issued its annual list of stakes to be run next year, the entries to clcse December 31, 1901. They are as follows : Three-year-olds and upward The Brighton Handicap, ,CC0 added, one mile and a quarter; the Brighton Cup, ,0C0 added, two miles and a quarter; the Islip Handicap, 1,5C0 added, one mile and a furlong; the Jamaica Stakes, selling, ,EG0 added, one mile and a sixteenth; the Test Handicap, ,SC0 added, eix furlongs. Three-year-oIds-The Seagate Stakes, ,000 added, one mile and a furlong; the Glen Gove Handicap, ,EC0 added, six furlongs. Two-year-olds The Montauk Stakes, ,500 added, five and a half furlongs; the Atlantic Stakes, selling, ,500 added, five furlongs; the Winged Foot Handicap, ,500 added, five and a half furlongs. Steeplechases and HnrdleB The Punches-town Stakes, ,000 added, full course, about two and a half miles; the Lsopardstown Stakes, ,0C0 added, short course, about two miles; the 1 Ghantilly StakeB, hurdle handicap, 00 added, , one mile and three-quarters, seven flights; the Auteuil Stakes, hurdle, 00 added, one mile and three-quarters, eeven flightB. Entries for the Produce Stakes of J15JC00 to be 1 run in 1904 at Brighton also close on the above 1 date. Commenting on the chanceB of Letter BeifT to be reinstated by the Ecglish Jockey Club Judge 1 Burke has this to say in the Daily America of December 18: "A prominent member of the 1 Jockey Club said yesterday that he considered it a most hepeful sign for Lester Beiff that the English Jcckey Club had voted to receive his application for a license. Of course, receiving the application and granting the license are two distinct things, but it looks no more than reason- -able that the club would have taken no action whatever unless it was meant to restore Beiff to the privileges. And it is no violent assumption to take it for granted that with Beiff in good favor i again ha will, of course, be riding for Mr. Whit- ney, and equally of course will ride Nasturtium 2 in the Derby." , 2 2 The winning of Old England last Wednesday 2 at Oakland when he defeated San Nicholas at four and a half furlongs and broke the track 2 record for that distance has given rise to a dis 1 pute between G. B. Morris and Col. Dan Burns of Burnt. and Waterhouse as to which is the better horse. The argument has resulted in a match race being arranged for Saturday at five j furlongs. It will be for 00 a side and the as- j sociation will add 00. Each horse will carry 111 pounds and there will be a flying start with the recall flag. OConnor will ride Old England . and Bpencer San Nicholas. 1 2 The New OrleanB Picayune of December 18 2 hae this to say about the judges recognizing j betting there : 5 "In the closing event, or, rather, in its prelim- jj inary. Bob Baker threw his rider and ran away, j He was ordered withdrawn, and, with it. came 5 the announcement that all bete were off and 5 twenty minutes would be allowed for a new book. When the tell-tale sheet carrying this announcement was displayed considerable snr- 1 prise was expressed, for the reason that the , edicts of the Western Jockey Club, under which ; the present meeting is conducted, distinctly say that no cognizance of betting shall be taken. Naturally comes the question : From where did the order come to declare bets off? All during the meeting there has been a disposition to adhere most strictly to the rules of the Jockey Club. In a way this is commendable, and for this reason yesterdays open defiance of one of the most stringent points of the western powor seems surprising. In the hurry of the moment it is possible that those in charge failed to refresh their memory from the book of rules, with which ;they must be supplied; still, when one considers what a transaction of this sort means, the lack of thoughtfulness becomes extremely grave. If rules are made and adopted they must be lived up to. They may hurt, at times and be against old precedents; still they must be obeyed at all timeB, or not at all. The refusal to permit Tour to run on Monday was straining a point to get into the rules which yesterday were flagrantly violated. It iB hardly possible that the came, however, will be repeated." Victor Porter, the steeplechase jockey, who waB ruled off at NewlOrleans last winter for alleged . complicity in a job race through the field, has filed suit for ,500 damages against C. S. Bush, General Manager; Sheridan Clark, Secretary, and Captain Bess, presiding steward of , the Crescent City Jockey Club. He also prays 1 for an injunction enjoining said parties from preventing his riding in raceB, and thus earning , a livelihood. Jockey Boscoe Troxler, who was ruled off at ; New OrleanB two years ago, with his brother, wsb a viiitor at that track last Wednesday. I They are en route to Frisco, where young Troxler . will ride. He stated that it is not his ent intention to ask the Western Jockey Club to reinstate him, and that ha will probably ride , . in the east next season, as he has received 1 offers from several good stables.
