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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. A dispatch from San Francisco to Morning Telegraph under date of November 5 says: "Things are looking up at Ingloside. Every day now the horses are filing in the gates and the stables are filling up fast. A number of easterners got in this week, among them Walter Jennings string from Sacramento, where the horses have been resting up after the trip overland. "Maxnic, the colt that ran east this summer and since then won the Sacramento Futurity, has been very sick here, but is now on the mend. Clem Pierce, the brother-in-law of C. T. Patterson, Max-nics trainer, has been looking after the colt night and day, as Patterson is still under the weather. "M. J. Daly got in this week from tho east with six, among them Lapidus, which ran a mile at Oakland in 1:39 last winter; Golden Cottage, Claude and Hesper. Mr. Dalys son, who piloted this years Metropolitan Handicap winner for Mr. Arthur Feathorstone, came with the horses, as did also his brother. L. Daly has grown considerably since last winter and will not be able to ride lighter than 105 pounds. "Phil Rickman, who for years has been with G. B. Morris, has a useful little stable of his own at Ingleside. He is a quiet, shrewd individual, and it would be well to note tho early performances of Cathello and Arthur Ray." R. A. Smith and W. L. Oliver will ship their racing itablos to California Sunday. Mr. Smith has only Articulate to tako back to-the coast, while Mr. Oliver will take a dozen of tho horses which have campaigned so successfully in the "white, red diamonds" hero this season. James Frayling has taken Olivers quarters at Lakewood for the win-tor. Frayling has wintered the Randolph horsos at Lakewood for several seasons, and belives it to be the best wintering place in the vicinity of the metropolis. Frayling will give up the Randolph horses at the end of the season and train a public stable. He already has a number of hcrsos in his charge, and his success this season is recommendation sufficient to insure him an increase whenever he cares for it. Daily America. Jockey Patton presented his case to Judge Price at Latonia, Wednesday. Tho boy was reinstated a few days ago, but can not ride because ho has apt been granted a license. Patton gave a well known follower of tho turf 5 Monday a week ago, asking him to apply for the license, but neither applica tion nor money reached Chicago, and Patton will in all proability have to wait another month before he will be allowed to ride. Under tho rules a jockey who is outlawed can not ride while his application for a license is pending. Judge Price, as well as President Perkins and Secretary Hopper, sympathize with tho boys hard luck, and they will do everything they can to have the matter straightened out. A Lexington dispatch of Nov. 6 to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune says: "T. P. Hayes, the turfman, who gained national fame as the leader in the fight made against the Western Jockey Club by turfmen who desired to race their horses over outlawed tracks, two years ago, is in Lexington. He came hero from Chicago to look over his yearlings at Beaumont farm and to install the four-year-old mare Algie M., a daughter of Hanover, in tho stud to be bred to Ornament. Mr. Hayes has some fifteen yearlings that he will have broken, and which will race as two-year-olds next soason. Of his this years stable he sold off all save four horses, Jordan, Lady Strathmore and a couple of two-year-olds. Mr. Hayes expects to have a string of about twenty-two horses next season. .He will winter tho major-, Tty of his horses at tho Cumberland Gap track, at Nashville, and thinks he will not race at New Orleans during the winter. Jockey Pieratt, who won favor here and has been riding at Latonia, narrowly escaped death Thursday through an accident which is thus detailed by a Cincinnati newspaper: "Pieratt got away slowly with Lady Meddlesome, and ho at once tried to get to tho front. Failing to get through on the inside of Ecome he pulled his mount up sharply and tried to pass on the opposite side. In making this move tho mare crossed her legs and went down, throwing the jockey. He wont down in a heap, and as he was in third place at the time it was thought that he was surely killed by the rest of the field running over him. He was picked up and carried to the Blakely stable, and after an examination it was found that he had sustained a broken collar bone and a long scalp wound. After the last race he was removed to the St. Elizabeth Hospital, and his condition was not considered serious. "It will keep him out of tho saddle for the rest of tho meeting, however. It is a remarkable fact that more accidents do not occur at tho first tarn, especially when the start is mado at a mile. There is a wild scramble to get to going. Tho horses are massed in a compact bunch, and that none of them go down is duo more to the intelligence of tho animals than to any skill on the part of the jockeys, Pieratt got his fall almost opposite the spot where Pirate Belle met her death two years ago. Pieratt is an apprentica boy and is under contract with Andy Blakely, For some time he has been doing tho lightwoight riding for Pat Dunne at Chicago. For an inexperienced boy he has done very well, his worst fault being in his slowness to get away from the post." W. S. Barnes, of tho Melbourne Stud, has sold to B. H. Reed for a private figure the three-year-old bay gelding Trialmoro, half-brother to School for Scandal, and the three-year-old brown gelding Wimbledon, half-brother to Scarlet Lily. Reed has bought of trainer Walter Grater tho threo-year-old bay gelding Colonel Crane, by Kohama Annie Irwin. Ho will school tho trio ovor the hurdles with the idea of developing them into high-class jumpers for racing between tho flags next year at Morris Park, Saratoga, Sheepshead Bay and Gravosond. The jumpers will be given a full share of tho purses at San Francisco during tho progress of the approaching winter meeting. One of the best steaplochaso courses in the country is that at Ingleside, and as the racing will begin at this track and CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE, GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from First Page. continue for at least sixty days, if not eighty, before moving to Oakland or Tanforan, the "leppers" will be in for business from the outset. Before leaving here recently President Tom Williams said that a liberal provision would be made for the steeplechasers and hurdlers, and what he says he makes good. In the old days of tho Bay District track the steeplechases run over its peculiarly picturesque course were immensely popular, and the contests at Ingleside will no doubt be equally as attractive. A. Newsum, at one time one of the most noted of . American trainers, handling for the famous Nick Finz3r the great race horses King Lee and Henry Young, the latter Henos sire, has forsaken the turf and gone into the railroad business in Texas. The objections of his wife to the racing business is said to have precipitated the change and caused him to leavo a profession in which he made bo brilliant a record. Mrs. Newsum was a Kentucky belle at the time of her marriage to the noted trainer, but n9ver took very kindly to turf sports. Something of a queer case has cropped up at Latonia of which the Enquirer of yesterday says: Little Gormley, the St. Louis boy who seems to have in him the making of a good jockey, wilL not be seen in the saddle any more at this meeting and maybe never again, or at least untii he arrives at his majority. The cause of the trouble is the presistency of the boys father in attempting to enforce the legal right to his sons earnings in the face of the efforts of the boy to collect them for himself. Gormley contends that his father has squandered his money, and for a year or more he has beeu conniving to keep him from collecting it. Last spring Gormley, Sr.. sent Attorney F. A. Wind here to enforce a settlement. Secretary Hopper made a settlement with him, after which Gormley, who was then under engagement to F. Lightfoot, declined any other mounts. Sporty Sayre had baen making his engagements at this meeting, and the boy had been doing very well in the saddle. On Monday Secretary Hopper got a message from Wind, the St. Louis attorney, advising him that a draft had baen drawn for the amount of Gormleys earnings for the first week. Secretary Hopper advised the attorney that Gormley had been paid. In reply to this Secretary JHoppar received the following letter from Wind yesterday: "Gormleys father has just called, and when shown your telegram answered that he did not know Sayre and had given him no authority to make engagements for the boy. As the boy is under age no one but his father has authority over him or has a right to collect his earnings. You have power of attorney filed with you by me last June, and uoder which you paid me his earnings during that meeting. Therefore you knew the father was asserting his rights and should not have paid Gormley. You are now warned not to make further payments. I will draw on you each week for his earnings as shown by the form Bbeet. Of course I will instruct the bank to give you credit for any fines that may be assessed against him and for which you hand the banlt a statement. If you would mail me on Saturday night a statement of his fees and fines I would send draft oh Monday for the correct amount. Thanking you for past courtesies and trusting for continuation of our friendly relations I remain very respactf ally. F. A, Wind." The letter was turned over to Jndge Perkins and after he had been advised of the exact status of the case he ordered that Gormley take no more mounts at the meeting. "If tho boy is not willing for his father to collect his money, and if the father is so persistent in attempting to collect it as to employ an attorney to do it, then I should say that the jockey club is safest in not permitting an occasion, for the annoyance that might attend a suit at law.
