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GOSSIP OF THE TURF All things considered Martin Pattons filly Ethyiene is let into the St Louis Inaugural on the ground floor Mr Maginn put but ninetysix pounds on her To be sure he has Dewey in at ninetythree and Schwalbe at ninetyfive and they are clever horses fast and game yet not any of them showed as well as the daughter of Ethel Gray last year and on her efforts last fall she should come pretty close to doing the trick on May 3 though they do say that she has not grown very much meantime Andy Williams upon whom there is a heavy Derby play is almost as well as Ethyiene Of course if Waring and Wax Taper with their 127 and 126 pounds respectively are fit the younger ones will have trouble finding wbich way they went But it is an even break that neither horse is nearly as good as he was and that Waring will not start at all St Louis Republic Secretary Nathanson of the Harlem Jockey Club has high hopes for the steeplechase game here this year He has the assurance of at least ten eastern owners that each will Bend two or more of their timber toppers to compete in the infield affairs here this year After his recent trip down east Mr Nathanson is fully convinced that the Proviso course boasts the finest steeplechase appointments iuihe country and he is surejf thejBastern owners come here this year they will continue to race here ever afterward The infield game is quite the go In the east and Mr Nathanson thinks with twenty or thirty good timber toppers here this year the sport will enjoy a vogue almost equal to that en ¬ joyed around New York Havanas first horseracing season under Amer ¬ ican auspices began formally week before last with wonderful success Twenty horses from the United States ran in four races in the presence of thou ¬ sands of the best element of the population Tom Beily started open poolselling on the grounds The enthusiasm evidenced by all nationalities war ¬ rants the prediction that horseracing will take the place of bull and cock fighting in the hearts of the people Mr L V Bell has left San Francisco for New York The stable that Mr Bell took out to the coast met with indifferent success which is a source of general reget among the lovers of the sport in California It is more than likely that the Bell colors will be sported in the Metropolitan and other classic races of the eastern turf this summer On tlie strength of a move of threeeighths of a mile in 36 6 seconds last Wednesday at Lexington Col Milton Young paid John Cronin 1500 for the chestnut colt twoyearold by First Mate Chippie Cronin bought the colt for 200 as a yearling from Colonel Young Ho will be trained by Charlie Dodson
