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GOSSIP OP THE TURF. Monday the Jockey Clnb adopted the following schednlo of racing dates for the eastern clnbs : Washington Jockey Clnb. Thursday, March 27, to Baturday, April 12. Qaeens County Jockey Club, Tuesday, April 15, to Thursday, May 1. Westchester Racing Association, Baturday, May 8, to Thursday, May 22. Brooklyn Jockey Club, Baturday, May 21, to Friday, June IS. Coney Island Jockey Club, Baturday, June 14, to Friday, July 4. Brighton Beach Racing Association, Baturday July 5, to Saturday, August 2. Saratoga Association, Monday, August 4, to Friday, August 29. Coney Island Jockey Club, Saturday, August M, to Saturday, September 13. Brooklyn Jockey Club, Monday, September 15, to Baturday, October 4. Westchester Racing Association, Monday, October 6, to Saturday, October 25. Queens County Jockey Club, Monday, October 27, to Saturday, November 8. Washington Jockey Club, Monday, November 10, to Saturday, November 29. A dispatch from Lexington, Ey., Monday, to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Bays: "John E. Madden, master of Hamburg Place, here, is highly indignant at the publication of the list of mares and the statement that be has eold them to Clarence H. Mackay, of New York, for a long price. Madden says today that he has made no Buch Bale. The list was published here Saturday by the Thoroughbred Record and also an afternoon daily paper and regarded as authentic. It was stated that the official organ of the Jockey Club had recorded the mares as belonging to Mackay and entered by him in the 0,000 Hopeful Stakes for 1S04. In speaking of next years prospects in racing, Judge Burke, in the Daily American of December 28, has this to say: "It bids fair to be a great year for horsemen. Almost every pros-.pectus that I have Been for 1902 provides for a material increase in the added money to stakes. It is now apparent that the Coney Island Jockey Club is not to be distanced in the race for popularity. Its program for the coming June meeting shows the Swift and Spendthrift Stakes have been increased by 00 each, ,000 being the added money now. The Zephyr and Bpring have been increased to nearly double the sum formerly added to them. To the Vernal there has been an. increase of 50. The Beacon Steeplechase, ,500 added, and the Rockaway Cup, ,C00 in cash added, will both be appreciated by owners of jumpers. The Equality and Thistle, for three-year-olds and upward, are new stakes. The far-famed Suburban, valno 0,000; the Mermaid, value ,000; the Tidal, value 0,0C0; the June Handicaps, worth ,500; the Double Event, 0,000; Swift, Spendthrift, Great Trial 0,000, and other raceB all show the liberality of this progressive racing association." According to reports from San Francisco, considerable interest is taken by horsemen at the Inglesido track in a yearling filly nimed Fig-arago that was bred at Sacramento by the County Down Btock Farm and by them Bold to Burns and Waterhouse. The filly has shown a quarter of a mile in her work with 125 pounds in 231 seconds over the Oakland track, and the owners think so much of her that they have entered her in three 0,000 guaranteed stakes to be run at Baratoga in 1902. This is probably one of tha most promising fillies shown in California at the present time. She is by Figaro-Guidon, she by Flood. Following the purchase of Lady Minting for James R. Eeane at the Newmarket Blood Stock Sale, comes the account of two more important 1 sales in which Americans are interested. Rose-garland, a daughter of Boulevard Rose d Armour, was knocked down at the handsome figure of ,CC0. Bhe is for an American whose name was kept a secret. The mara is in foal by Bill of Portland. A Mr. McClennan paid ,550 for Vagrant Maid, a mare in foal by Cyl-lene. Lady Minting, the new Eeene purchase, has baen bred to the same stallion. Among the passengers who arrived on the Celtic last Sunday wbb Charles Ballard, once a popular jockey on the American tracks. He was accompanied by his wife and child and came here to stay during the Christmas holidays, after which he will return to England and during next Beason train for J. D. Leon, a well-known English turf patron, Ballard expressed an opinion that the English racer ia superior to the American bred animal and that aB an all-around lover of racing the Englishman is unapproachable. He added that Danny Maher wbb surprisingly popular in England.
