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LOCAL TURF GOSSIP. J. O. Keene, owner of Braw Lad and other horses that have raced on local tracks, returned yesterday from Russia, where he has been since July first meeting with unusual success training the stable for a Mr. Bolica, a Russian banker. In the short time that Mr. Keene was in the land of the Czar he annexed forty purses, of which seventeen were stakes, including the St. Petersburg and Moscow Legers two of the principal racing events of Russia. Both these races were won by a three-year-old named Sirdar, which Mr. Keene says was the best horse in Russia. Before leaviug for America Mr. Keene signed to train next year for Mr. Lazzarus. a Polish banker, who contemplates going into the racing game on an extensive scale. Jockey Coburn was fined 50 by Starter Dwyer in the third raco for beating the barrier on I. Samel-son. C. S. Bush, president and general manager of the Crescent City Jockey Club, was among the visitors at the track yesterday. CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. LOCAL TURF GOSSIP. Continued from First Page. Lough Derg, a recent arrival from Canada and which was liberally supported by his owners in .the last race, bled after going a half mile and was pulled up. Jockey Treanor, recently suspended by the Worth Judges, has been restored to favor and left Sunday for California. A number of owners that have raced at Worth and who intend to race this winter on the California tracks maae liberal entries to the various stakes to be decided there. The principal stables to make entries from here where those of Green B, Morris, who made 55 entries; E. J. Arnold and Co., 36; C. Lind, 15; H. Stover, 14; E. J. Baldwin. 13; J. Curl. 6, and F. D. Weir, 6. Ethylene reduced the six and a half furlongs record for the Worth track and placed the new mark at 1:1956. Jockey Cobnrn had hiB foot injured while at the post in the fourth race, caused by the unruly actions of Tom Kingsley, which carromed heavily into Elsie L., Coburns mount.
