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LOCAL TURF GOSSIP. Jockey Cay wood, who has been in communication for some time past with Count A. W. Stembock Fermor, a wealthy nobleman of Warsaw, Russia, relative to riding in the land of the Czar, received a contract Wednesday from the count stipulating a salary of 58,000 and the usual allowance of 0 and 5 for losing and winning mounts. The only drawback to tho riders signature being immediately affixed to the contract is a clause therein which states that he must ride at 112 pounds or less. The latter clause may cause negotiations to be broken, as Caywood has of late experienced great difficulty in making less than 118 pounds without weakening himself. If an agreement can be reached between tho count and jockey the latter will at once be given 00 expense money and journey to Warsaw, where the counts stable is located, and enter into his new employment the first of January, 1903. Senator J. S. OBrien and C. H. Smith were among the visitors at Lakeside yesterday. S. S. Bender will ship his horses next Monday to New Orleans, where they will be raced this winter. Tillo, the winner of the Suburban in 1898 and heavily backed to win the third race yesterday, got the better of jockey Robbins in a false breakaway and ran three miles at top speed before he could be pulled up. The horse was so nearly exhausted when he returned to the starting point that the judges readily excused him from starting and later they announced tnat his entry in future would not be accepted. Evelyn Byrd, which finished second in the third race, will in future be barred from starting at Lakeside on account of her inconsistent running. E.J. Arnold and Co. will divide their stable and ship away from Roby Monday night. The better horses, which will include Bessie McCarthy, Fitz-brillar, Mary McCafferty and Boana, in charge of Tom Kiley, will be sent to California, and the remainder of the horses will go to New Orleans to be canpaigned there during the winter.
