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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Secretary Nathansons proposal for a cup race over the conventional two and a quarter miles is worthy of hearty commendation and, if owners do their share in good spirit, the race should attract, a great assemblage of interested spectators and prove one of the chief racing features of the local year. Horses are now hard and fit and fully able to cope with the rcute prescribed without danger of injury-and a numbor of good. ones, are here now-that should demonstrate they can stay as well as run faBt. Two veteran stars, one of tho English and one of the American turf, Scintillant II. and Pink Coat, should shine here. Both will probably retire from the track to the stud next year and a triumph in this race would fittingly crown the turf career of either. Tom Barretts Barrack is a stayer from stayerville. Argregor comes from the state where they still run four mile races and is a good one in any company and over any route. With but 105 pounds to carry, such colts as Aladdin, Lucien Appleby and Corrigan might very well be sent for the honors of such a race. Then Joe Frey, Searcher and other good ones are fit that should, round out a field sufficient to puzzle the wisest turf student in essaying to pick the winner. Tho Westchester Racing Association advertises the conditions of the Seventh National Stallion Stakes. This event will be run in 1904, by then two-year-olds, and is limited to the progeny of stallions that are to be named by midnight of Tuesday, September 9, by subscriptions of 0 each, or only 5 each for stallions which have not sired a winner prior to December 1, 1902. This is annually one of the most valuable two-year-old stakes of the American turf, and no owner of a proved or promising sire can afford to refrain from giving him a chance to win fame here through his progeny. This year it fell to Mr. Belmonts Mizzen and was worth 1,750 net. The added money was ,C00, whereas in 1904 it will be ,000. The entry of the produce of stallions nominated next Tuesday will clo6e December 9, 1902, which is also the date of closing entries for the famous Matron Stakes. Owners of stallions who may desire entry blanks can obtain them on application to Daily Racing Foem. It turns out that several checks sent by Secretary John Boden, Jr., to owners who won purses at the recent Brighton meeting did not fall into proper hands. The checks were mailed to the owners, including J. C. Wallace and John Hynes, at Saratoga, but somebody else got hold of them and cashed. How many checks went wrong in this way remains to be seen. At the sale of Spendthrift yearlings before the races Tuesday, John Mackey, trainer for J. B. Hag-gin, bought the yearling chestnut colt Prince of Fashion, by Prince of Monaco Willy Howard, for 50, the purchase being made for P. Dunne. The transaction created some comment, inasmuch as a year ago P. Dunne bought Savable, the Futurity winner, at a sale for the same price. Joseph Ull-man also made several purchases at Tuesdays sale and the rumor was afloat thai he was acting for John A. Drake, but Ullman said that the youngsters were bought for his own use.
