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GOSSIP OF THE TUBF. When Tribes Hill won tne first race at Aqueduct Tuesday Jack McGinnis, the well-known betting commissioner, was happy. Tho colt, which is a three-year-old son of Clifford Garoga, was once the property of S. Sanford and Son, but during the recent Morris Park meeting he was put up at auction. In spite of William Eastons earnest Tequest for bids, nobody seemed to want Tribes Hill, so he was led out of the ring. Somebody offered 5 for him, but it was refused. Then McGinnis patina fifty-dollar offer, but that was turned down. "Ill give 00 for him rather than seo him go back to the farm at Amsterdam," said McGinnis, -and Tribes Hill became his property. When McGinnis decided to start the coltThursday, he also concluded to bet on him, A commissioner named Harrison was sent into tho ring with 25, instructed to bet 5 straight and 50 to show. He had no trouble in getting the money down, securing 60 to 1 straight and 2 to 1 third, or ,500 to 5 and ,000 to 50. Scott, the stable boy, had tho. mount and he rode a fine race. Tribes Hill won by a head and McGinnio pocketed ,000 in addition to 80, wnlcli- was his share of the purse, and all with a one-hun-dreddollar colt. In the days of Guttenburg McGinnis was struggling along in a precarious way, but in. recent years he has amassed quite a so tig fortune. Ho won a barrel of money at Brighton Beach with his colt Reformer when the latter came home with 40 to 1 against him. Concerning a feature of the racing at Aqueduct last Monday, the Evening Sun says: "To the spectators it seemed little less than a miracle that the five jockoys who went down with their mounts in tho race at a mile and seventy yards, for two-year-olds, should escape from tho tangled mass alive. Yet escape alive they did, and without so ranch as a scratch at that. It was the worst looking accident seen on a metropolitan racetrack in years, but never did accident have less painful results. Four of the five boys who fell rode later in the day, three of them in tho very next race. The accident happened on the upper turn Epidemic with Boiesen up, had been prominent in tho running to this point, but hero she began to tiro and, stumbling, fell. In the twinkling of an eye Franklyn C, ridden by Minder; Glendon, ridden by apprentice Sailing; Ithan, ridden by Gannon, and Blue Delft, with Bedfern in her saddle, were down in one indiscriminate heap. There was no time for any of those boys to pull out. They simply went down in a mass, and it is a wonder of wonders that out of what seemed to be certain death they came without the slightest injury. As the race was won Gallant Smith was the best horso in it, but little Waugh was more ofj a hindrance than a help to him, and he was beaten a neck by Harrison. The western colt, Watkins Overton, made a bold bluff to tho stretch, but became leg weary in the run home and had to be content with third money." P. J. Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, in a letter to W. S. Barnes of tho Melbourne Stud says that in his opinion his colt Merry Acrobat, winner of the White Plains Handicap, will prove a second Major Daingerfield next year as a three-year-old. Ho adds that Merry Acrobat stands sixteen hands high and has not as yet doue grow- iug. He looks for him to develop into a very sensational three-year-old. The colt was bred at Melbourne Stud. His owner paid ,000 for him as a yearling. His dam, Merry thought, ran Amanda, dam of Merry Beel, to a head finish in the Pepper Stakes at Lexington in 1895, beatinir, Bracegirdle, dam of The Rival, tho famous Lady Inez and other crack flllios of that year. She was.cut down early in her two-year-old form and noyer Isjced after that season. Her dam, Baybille. is a sfstnr to tho drm "f J cl: cDoraB noted stake horse Kensselaer.
