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GOSSIP OF THE TUBS. While the United States Government, through the Agricultural Department, is interested in the various breeds of horses for purposes of exportation, it is not so directly concerned with race horses. And yet, the lessons of cavalry service in Africa and in our own Spanish war show that the thoroughbred can do more work than the common-bred horse. Both General Miles and Secretary-Wilson of the Department of Agriculture hare admitted that the matter of a national racing commission is an important question of the hour. Such a commission, working in harmony with the head3 of the Departments of Agriculture and War, should bo able to create throughout the country at large, the satisfactory condition which exists in the state of New York. Mexican will be loft behind when the Maokay string is shipped to Saratoga. Only the horses that Mr. Mackay bought with their engagements are entered at Brighton, and Acefull, Skillful and Mexican are all entered in several stakes at the seaside track. Mexican will bo left with J. E. Madden for his Brighton engagements, which are the Neptune, of ,000; the Produce, of 5,000, and the Brighton Junior, of 0,000, the three richest stakes for youngsters to be run during the meeting. He will be entitled to a breeding allowance in the Produce Stakes, his sire being untried at the time of.entry. C. H. Mackay has purchased the yearling sister to Mexican, by Mirthful Llandrinio, by The Arrow from J. E. Madden,
