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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Before Bailing for home on the Celtic Wednesday, jockey Maher was interviewed and is reported to have said: "I have bean more or less restricted by physical conditions in securing: mounts which I believe would have increased my average, but I am quite satisfied with 106 wins out of 400 mounts. I must say I cannot always sympathize with the complaint some of my feliow American jockeys have made against English turf methods. As far as I am concerned, I have always found English racing men to be true sportsmen, and if I have had any trouble at all it has been with American quite as often as with English jockoye. " My racing season had a number of peculiar features for instance, the fact that I won five of the most important races on Rocksand, and that I never lost a race with him. This is probably without precedent. I had almost equal success with Flotsam, on which I beat my old mount, Rocksand, in the most sensational finish of the season. As these two horses are now the favorites for the Derby of 1903, and as I believe thoy are the best two-year-olds in England, I hope to bring one of them home first in that race. My wins of the Eclipse Stakes, value 0,000, on Cheers, and the Champion Stakes, value 5,COO, on Rabelais, both at Sandown, helped to make up the sum of ,000 which I secured for my employers during the season. I propose to remain in the United States until March, when I will return to England to ride for Sir Daniel Cooper, Sir James Miller and liord Cadogan." Jockey Lucien Lyne has returned to his fathers Larchmont stud, Lexington, Ky., wnere he will remain for two or three wegks. He tips the scale at 105 pounds and is in great condition. He, went thore from the Bennings meeting and drove at once to his home to see his mother. The young jockey has a number of offers to ride at New Orleans and he may go therefor a week or two. John W. Schorr was after him for that meeting, but ho declined. He goes to New York the first week in January. The stable of G. C. Bennett has bsen shipped from Memphis to take part in winter racing at New Orloans, commencing on Thanksgiving Day. Fourteen head are included in the bunch, which is in charge of Henry McDaniel, the regular Bennett trainer. The Bennett yearlings and some of the older horses, including Abe Frank, winner of the Tennessee Derby; Blennenworth and Ed Austin, were lett at Memphis to be rested for next years ggmpargn. Bennett has not decided on a rider for the New Orleans meeting. Cobnrn, the regular stable jockey, will not report to the stable until January. Charles Clancy, a prominent turfman of Seattle, who is now in San Francisco, says the Seattle Racing Association has decided to give a thirty-day meeting in the spring and another of the same duration in the fall. The association expects to have Judge Murphy, of St. Louis, preside in the stand. A proposition has been made Murphy to visit Seattle to look over the ground and have a conference with the principal owners of the establishment. "We havo one of the prettiest plants in this country," said Clancy recently, "situated right in the bend of the river, but a few miles out of Seattle, with first-class transportation, facilities, electric and steam cars running to the track, commodious, up-to-date grandstand, over 5 0 stalls for horsos in fact, everything that goes to make a first-class racing establishment." Judge Joseph A. Murphy was seen in regard to the rumor that he had been to Chicago to promote the new race track projectedby P. J. Carmody, and that unless dates were given it trouble would be made for racing .in Chicago and Missouri. "You can deny for me," said Mr. Murphy, "that I have been to Chicago at all, or that I have any intention of entering into a race track fight. I have been through three, and I find that if you win one you lose in the end. Racing is better off not agitated in any way, and if there is to be any effort to injure racing in Illinois or Missouri I will positively not be a party to it. However, operating race tracks iB my business, and my services are at the disposal of any one who will pay my price and give me authority to protect the public and myself." St. Louis Globe Democrat. Through his private secretary, Clarence Hall, Hon. Perry Belmont has secured a long-term lease on J. C. Graves Arbondale stock farm of 250 acres, three miles from Lexington on the Nicholasville road. His sires Ethelbert and Magian.with ten brood mares, have arrived and will be sent to the Ftud at once. The horses came from Silver Brook stock farm in New Jersey, which has boen bought of Lucien Appleby by C. Mackay. George Hughes will be manager of tho stud. Mr. Belmont believes the blue grass best suited to horse breeding and he will maintain a stud there permanently.
