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GOSSIP or THK Timr TimrThe The San Francisco Chronicle of December 27 has s ii to say concerning the class of horses now run ing at Oakland It is becoming more apparent ith each succeeding days racing that the class of horses does not compare with that of last season It was announced that the good weather would bring out the good class horses but a glance at the programme today will not cause any enthusiasm for admirers of racing in California As a matter of fact there is little chance for a good horse under the present system of handicapping Take the Christmas Handicap for an example It was car r ¬ ried olv by a horse that had frequently been beaten u cheap selling races but he was pitchforked into 0 in lie handicap with an impost of 95 pounds and was s ed to beat horses like Water Cure and Stwere compelled to carry heavy ini Es of the class of Water Cure Auto Mvian cannot win handicaps out here 3 ft encouragement to owners to own or ir ECS a selling plater captured the Burns is cap and numerous other cheap horses s good Jiorses through over handicap lorse that cannot beat another in a big g jen conceded twenty ponuds should be ie races where he legitimately belongs 5 won more morey out here last year ir than did good class horses like Advance Guard That is the reason why comparatively few high class horses were shipped out this year and there will be fewer for the season of 1902 unless a radical change is made A correspondent in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of December 29 has this to say of the suc ¬ cess of the present New Orleans meeting meetingThe The financial support given this meeting will lead to improvements before another year rolls around among which may be two chutes at six and seven furlongs Also a possible new club house There is no reason why as good horses should not be sent here to race as are seen on the summer tracks north and east and right here I want to make a prophecy prophecyIf If the present unprecedented financial support of this meeting is continued to the end of the huii dred days I believe the Crescent City Jockey Club will largely increase its stakes and purses a year hence While the present scale is a fair one a de ¬ cided increase will bring here most of the eastern contingent that annually go to Frisco and othcrY thjiit a yofr bnvo vTjiti T tJ tJo i o east fOHi P j ji i j I This is almost a certainty T P Hayes the Kentucky horseman arrived at Nashville Wednesday morning with two car loads of oflorses lorses which will be put in training at once at Cum ¬ berland Park Among his collection of blue blood ¬ ed equines is that good colt Runnels which was re ¬ ported sold last Monday to Tichenor it Newgass for 12500 It is not a certainty that Runnels is sold Hayes priced the colt at 12500 but was offered 11000 by these gentlemen Hayes declined the oiler and Tichenor Newgass took an option at the top figure Hayes will be granted a trainers license at the meeting of the Western Jockey Club Monday and will race exclusively in the West this season seasonRunnels Runnels will be entered in all the big events of the West whether he remains Hayes property or not The sudden death of George Arnold the famous racer who was killed in a railway collision in Louisiana yesterday will be deplored by all lovers of the thoroughbred After winning the Christmas Handicap at New Orleans in which event he ran the mile in 1 39 establishing a new track record it was decided by his owner to rest him up until next spring and it was while being shipped into winter quarters that lie was killed George Arnold was one of the best handicap horses that ran here last lastyear year and always commanded a big following when ¬ ever he started in a race He was a grand speci ¬ men of the thoroughbred and a more consistent t performer never faced the flag flagA A twoyearold bay filly owned by Frank Sloan of 1 r Lexington Ky went threeeighths in the phenome ¬ nal time of 371 seconds New Years day She had only been worked about forty days and this per ¬ formance was made on a muddy track She is by Russell Eva Dinsmore a full sister to Helen Nichols Three watches were held on her and no variations were shown She is already entered in about 7000 worth of stakes Word comes from N w York that Joe Ullman who at different times in his career has been recog nized as the biggest bookmaker in this country will 1 probably return to active participation in the book making business during the coming racing season Mr Ullman has always had an interest in one of the 3 big books at the eastern tracks but for several 1 years has not given it his personal attention Enoch Wishard the famous trainer of race horses fresh from his triumphs in England is looking over the promising thoroughbreds in the blue grass region He is a guest of John E Madden at Ham 1 burg Place near Lexington Ky He denies that he J I had bought anything and says ho has no intention of BO doing Madden says Wishards presence ha no significance
