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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Says Morning Telegraph of laBt Monday : "The performance of C. T. Boots! Argregor in winning the Young Handicap at Chicago has aroused great interest in turf circles. The fact that the son of Brutus was shipped from here a week ago for a race that he won five days later explodes the theory that a horse cannot win after leaving New York for the west on short notice. It also sustains the contention of G. B. Morris to the same effect regarding Strathmeath, which was shipped from Morris Park to Chicago only three days before the American Derby, which he won. "Argregors victory of Saturday over some of the best handicap horses in the west lends additional interest to the Brighton Cup, Saturday week, in which he will be a starter against Blues, Gold Heels and possibly one of the Whitney lot. "It is learned on the best of authority that Argregor will be shipped from Chicago to Brighton immediately after he fulfills his engagement for the Wheeler Handicap on Saturday next. With him and Blues in the lists against Gold Heels on July 26 at two miles and a quarter, a banner crowd is certain to be on hand. "Everything indicates that Argregor will go the route. His family is partial to a distance, and in the Brighton Handicap he was closing fast at the end. "While 124 pounds is heavy for Argregor, the horse is a weight carrier, as he showed at Sheeps-head in his race with 122 pounds, while on Saturday he had 115 pounds in the saddle. Altogether the presence of Argregor in the Brighton Cup will lend additional interest to that." A dispatch of July 15 to a Cincinnati newspaper says : "Messrs. Joseph Lucas and John S. Bratton today announced that the Kinloch racing track will open shortly after the closing on August 13 of the present meeting at Delmar. A two weeks meeting will be held and an effort will be made to make the races attractive to society. Gentlemen riders races and steeplechasing will be the features of racing. The purses will be of sufficient value to attract the better class of horses, and over-night handicaps will be held. "Mr. Bratton says that while the Kinloch meeting last year was not a financial success and may not be this year, that this consideration will be of secondary importance. " What is desired, said Mr. Bratton, is to get the better class of people interested in racing and in the habit of attending. The steeplechasing at the Fair Grounds this year attracted society folks more than anything else and we will make a specialty of this form of sport at the Kinloch meeting." The raising of the general admission at Saratoga to from , which obtained for a number of years, and the general advance in admission prices all down the line, bears a significance not readily apparent. The move received the fullest support of Mr. Whitney and other gentlemen prominent in promoting Saratoga, the prospective national seat of racing. These gentlemen intend to avoid a recurrence of the bugbear which for years was a thorn in the side of English racing, the predilection for the sport of an element not desirable from any point of view. This element, it is said, has been practically barred from English tracks by the imposition of big entrance fees, and it is proposed to shut off the evil before it gains a foothold. J. E. Madden has signed Phil McGovern, brother of Terry, to ride his horses at St. Louis, and the little jockey left New York Monday evening to report at the stable of his new employer. McGovern has been riding over New York tracks for two seasons and is showing improvement in the saddle. He won his first race at Providence during the I recent meeting. Irish Lad will not be seen at the races again until he faces the starter for the Saratoga Special, the principal two-year-old event of the Saratoga meeting. The colt was sent to Saratoga with others of -the Whitney and Madden lots last week. Harry Payne Whitney, who, with Herman B. Duryea, owns the colt, was at Brighton Beach Monday afternoon, and said that the colt would be especially prepared for the Special, and that he hoped to see him returned winner of the event. John Madden, who developed Irish Lad and sold him to Whitney and Duryea, still trains the colt, and will have charge of his preparation for the Special. The horses of W. C. Whitneys stable, which were left behind when the first shipment was made to Saratoga last week, were shipped there Tuesday from Sheepshead Bay.
