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ST. J.OUJS TURF OOSSIP. Local turfmen and bookmakers are preparing to go to the winter tracks at San Francisco and New Orleans. W. W. Rogers will take Fitzkanet, Colonial Girl and the other good ones in his stable to California. Phil Bollinger and George Ehrlich, the bookmakers, will do business at New Orleans. Virginia Carroll will go to California. Barney Schreiber iias shipped his horses out there and will follow about November 15. The season has been one of Mr. Schreibers banner years, both on the track and with his bookmaking operations. Charley Cella, who will go to New Orleans, quit the local season a bit loser. Louis Cella about broke even on the year. Phil Bollinger had a successful season, especially in the last two months. Frank Bayne goes to California with Barney Schreiber. Bayne won a handsome sum for Mr. Schreiber at the Fair Grounds, Delmar and Kin-loch. Bayne was well known as a jockey some ten years ago and rode at the East Side tracks. He makes a clever book especially in the place and show line. As an ex-jockey he knows just how big -the place and show percentage is against the bettor. For the one horse that is badly ridden to win, ten are badly ridden to show. Many horses are eased up when their riders see that they cannot win. TheBO horses played to run sncond and third finish out of the money. Barney Schreiber, who got his start off a show book, says that there is no money in it any more. Herman Hoffman will go to California. Mr. Hoffman is the steadiest and most consistent bookmaker in the west. He is always making a book that is true to form and never looks for the proverbial "ace" in the hole. He always makes money, which proves that honesty is the bast policy. E. J. Arnold and Co. will have a big stable at New Orleans, and a bigger and better one at San Francisco. They will operate a book at each track and a poolroom at Hot Springs. W. W. Finn will manage the New Orleans string, while Charley Ross, who did so well with J. K. Hughes horses, will train the lot. Mr. Arnold has given Mr. Finn carte blanche to purchase any good and serviceable horse he wants. Finn and Ross will do well at New Orleans. The real cracks of the present Arnold lot will be taken to San Francisco by Thomas Kiley. Johnnie Powers will turn Icicle, Lunar, Sweet Dream, Likeness and Kisme out on Dr. Crowleys farm for the winter. He does not hope for much from Sweet Dream, Kisme and Likeness, but thinks that Lunar and Icicle will be valuable horses next year. Sweet Dream went radically wrong last spring and never got right. Lunars nerved leg has been slow in coming around and Mr. Gumberts, against Mr. Powers advice, insisted upon running her when she was scarce fit to run. Kisme is nine years old and beyond her best days, though she won two races this fall. Icicle is a groat horse when fresh, Mr. Powers says, and he hopes to do good work with him hext year. John Ryan came over from Latonia to vote in St. Louis. Mr. Ryan says the game at Cincinnati is very brisk. He has five books of the sixteen doing business there and has, he says, been very successful so far. Ryan has gone into the breeding business, too, and has purchased the famous Singerly breeding farm near Singerly, Cecil County, Md. The farm was previously owned by George Singerly, the former proprietor of the Philadelphia Record. It is said to be the prettiest place of the kind out of doors. It lies close to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. There is a quarter-mile covered track on the grounds, built like the .track at Woodlands -that is, box stalls inside and track outside, with hay lofts and oat bins on top. The entire affair is made of steel and cost 5,000. There are the usual stables as well. Ryan got the farm for 5,000, which, ho says, represents about half the value of the improvements Mr. Singerly put on it when that sportsman was in the heyday Ryan tried to buy The Commoner to head his stud. He expected to put him in at Singerly, but the great stallion was bought in by the Jacksons at the recent Belle Meade sale, after he was carried to 1,000. He says that he is not going to keep a very big stud, but a choice one. He wants to buy some of the valuable English mares owned by the Duke of Portland which that nobleman is offering for sale. Mr. Ryan said that he wants one tried and proven stallion and just enough mares to mate to him. He thinks that this is a better plan of running a stud than taking a lot of untried stal- lions and spending huge sums trying tj make them successful sires. A large number of prominent horse owners will winter their strinze in St. Louis. G. C. Baker has weeded out his stable and will winter the pick of his string at the Fair Grounds. He disposed of Precisely and John Storm last Saturday and will remain here with Happy Chappy. Jack Young, Hannah Lady, Dr. Kier and Gaslighter. Chris Schawacker, the Fifth Ward Republican boss, will also winter his string, which is headed by the crack mare Helen Print, at the Fair Grounds. Dan Honig has-raced in San Francisco for sov6Val winters past, but this year he has decided to re- -main here. Honig owns a lot of valuable property in the downtown districts of St. Louis and will occupy himself during the cold months collecting rents and looking after the interests of his tenants. Lew Marion has also decided to remain in St. Louis during the winter. Lew owns Mayor Johnson, Bluemint and other good ones. J. E. Basquil is a resident of St. Louis and confines, his racing to the local tracks. He will winter his stable at the Fair Grounds. Dr. F. W. Holtgrewe, who owns Pinochle, Hottentot, Santa Ventura and Miss Throsa, is a well-known North St. Louis practitioner. His brother, George Holtgrewe, will winter the Holtgrawe horses at the Fair Grounds. James C. Ghio, the owner of Orris, is a wealthy St. Louis capitalist and real estate owner. Mr. Ghio always winters his stable at the Fair Grounds. He does not believe in campaigning his horses all year around. James Givens, who trains for J. N. Miller and Co., will stay here all wintor with Brutal, Our Lady and the rest of the Miller stable. Thomas Sayers has also received instructions from Dr. A. C. Bernays to winter his horses at the Fair Groinds. The doctor, like J. C. Ghio, is not an advocate of winter racing. D. J. Sullivan, the owner of Kingstelle, H. W. Wallhauser, the owner of Linden Ella; Gumberts and Powers, the owners of Icicle, Lunar, Sweet Dream, Likeness and Kisme; James Dock-ery, the owner of Sinfl and Revoke; Lou Cahn, the owner of Ampere and Terra Firma, and J. S. Brat-ton are a few more of the horse owners who will wintor their strings at the Fair Grounds. St. Louis Republic.
