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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Green B. Morris will take his horses west next week. The Missouri turfman said early Thursday afternoon that he would not wait for the Morris Park autumnal meeting if he could win at Graves-end the price of transportation across the continent. Ho won it before the afternoon was over. The winners share of the Parkville Handicap purse, which fell to his Goldfinch gelding Old Eng- CONTINDED ON FIFTH PAGE. GOSSIP OF THE TUBF. Continued from First Page. land, was ,975, and Sombrero won 00 more when he beat the two-year-old Examiner in the handicap for all ages at one mile and seventy yards. Morris will take everything in his stable to the coast and will not stop at Chicago, as he thought of doing a week or more ago. Sombrero, Cunard, Old England, Artvis and Durazzo are in all the rich stakes and purses on the coast program and they will fill their dates. Morris decision to race them all winter will make it almost impossible to get them ready for the big spring races on the eastern circuit, and may utterly destroy their chances of racing again after this year. Horses cannot run winter and summer and retain their form forever, as has been shown time and again. Metropolitan turf patrons do not like the notion of Sombrero running in California, but the Missouri turfmans reasons are sufficient for him. He says that the Star Ruby colt is fit and has an excellent chance of winning the Burns Handicap, which will pay something like 0,000 to the winner. If he were to winter Sombrero here he would run risk of his getting sick or failing to to come to hand in the early spring. Sombrero was an excellent winter horse in California last year, and Mr. Morris believes he will be again this season. If the Star Buby colt goes amiss in California he will be returned to the stud there. Daily America. The announcement of the sale of Morris Park to the New York and Portchester Bailroad has caused the revival of storieB of the removal of the Westchester Bacing Association to a new track. One of these stories is to the effect that the Westchester Association, as soon as the present lease of Morris Park expires, will race at a new plant, to be located somewhere on Hempstead Plains, while another yarn is in circulation that the Empire City track will be purchased at an early date. The Empire City track is now the property of the New York Driving Club and is exclusively devoted to the trotting horse. Those who believe that the Westchester people would like to race at Empire City argue that as the track is not used all the time for trotting meetings, there would be ample room for a spring and fall meeting of the rnnners. The additional argument is set forth that the New York Driving Club would probably be willing to sublet the Empire track to the Westchester Association under favorable terms. The Empire track was originally built for running races by the late W. H. Clark. The only fault to be found with it when it was first opened to the public waB that it was too remote from the New York and Harlem Railroad station in Mount Vernon and that the grandstand was constructed on the wrong side of the track, the sun shining in the eyes of the spectators who occupied it. The track, itself, is well adapted for running meetings, however, and the other appointments are declared to be up to date. It is said that if the Westchester Association should decide to either buy or lease Empire City track the Portchester road would build a spur from Mount Vernon to accomodate race goers. In regard to the story that the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs track at Gravesend must soon suspend operations because of the encroachments of real estate speculators, it was said that the Brooklyn Jockey Club holds a lease of the property that will not expire for ten years, so that there is no cause for alarm on that score. Philip J. Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, said that the property recently purchased in Queens cqunty, ostensibly for racing purposes, may have been acquired by the Westchester Association, though he declared he could not say with authority whether this was true or not. "Jockey Winnie OConnor yesterday completed arrangements whereby he will ride during the coming winter season for John W. Schorr at New Orleans," says Daily America of Sept. 2. "Mr. Schorr expects to make an extensive campaign at the Crescent City meeting, and will take a large number of horses to race there. Two now racing in the east will be included in the lot. They are John A. Scott and Eva Bussell, both winners at the fall meetings here. They will both be entered in the Derby at New Orleans. On their showing here they should be among the good youngsters at the meeting. Both are good in the mud, a. track condition that prevails largely at the Crescent City. He also has a large band at Memphis, which will make the New Orleans meeting. His stable promises to be one of the moat formidable racing there the coming Winter, and with OConnor to do the riding, the Schorr colors should be seen in front in many events. OConnor is anxious to be released from his contract with Albert Feather-stone. The contract does not expire until 1935, but Winnie believes that if he could go up the line of the southern and western circuit next season with; the Schorr stable he could do much better than he-has done in the eaBt this year. There is no chance, however, for him to get a release from the Feather-stone contract. Mr. Featherstone likes OConnor and believes that he has only fallen into a bad luck rut, such as overtakes all riders at times, and that he will soon be all right again." Jack Joyner will turn the horses of the Albemarle stable, which ho has trained since early in the. season, over to Wyndham Walden at the beginning of Ihe Westchester meeting. The three horses still in his charge, which belong to Perry Belmont, will be sold, as his contract with Sydney Paget stipulates that he is to give up all outside connections after the opening of the Westchester meeting. Flywheel, which has been on the shelf since running in the Standard Stakes at the Brooklyn Spring meeting, will be retired for the remainder of the season. J. V. Shipp, Sunny Slope Stud, Midway, Ky., has sold the following yearlings to Fred Cook, St. Louis, Mo. : Chestnut filly, by Knight of Eilerslie Beloved. Chestnut filly ,by Knight of Eilerslie Opera Glass . Chestnut colt, by Victory Bunch. Chestnut colt, by Victory Shuffle. Black colt, by Victory Tadie. Bay colt, by Gaylad Mildred. Chestnut colt, by Knight of Eilerslie Miss Fonso.
