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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Magnet, the magriificent St. Blaise horse brought here by D. A. Honig and sold to Prince Poniatow-ski for stud purposes, is now at Newcastle, New South Wales, the property of a Mr. Hogue. Mr. R. C. de B. Lopez sent the horse over, and now that The Fog, Phyz, Blissful and Clarinette have been returned good winners his loss will be severely felt. Magnet won forty races during his turf career and over 0,000, and has to his credit a series of wonderful performances," including five furlongs in 1:01, five and one-half furlongs in 1:071, six furlongs in 1 :13, seven and one-half furlongs in 1 :331, mile in 1 :39i and one and one-eighth miles in 1:521. This record has been equaled; by few horses in the worlds history, and Mr. Hogue is a lucky man in securing such a stallion as Magnet, which combines race horse ability, good breeding and ability to transmit his excellence to his progeny. The Fog took up 118 pounds and won the Mackey Stakes at at Sacramento this fall in 1:131, winning in a gallop. San Francisco Breeder and Sportsman. Capt. S. 8. Brown of Pittsburg, is spending thousands of dollars in improvements at his newly purchased breeding farm, Senorita Stud, near Lexington. He is erecting a mammoth training stable, with stalls for thirty-oight horses, which will cost from 0,OC0 to 2,000, the stalls being built in a circle in the center and around them is to be a covered track of about a sixteenth of a mile for exercise use in wet weather. The stallion barns and broodmare stables and sheds are to be up to date in every particular, and when all the improvements planned are finished Senorita Stud will be one of the model breeding farms of America. Captain Brown proposes ultimately to have his horses in training wintered there instead of at Mobile, Ala. He owns his training quarters there, it is true, but he has come to the conclusion that horss wintered near Lexington and exorcised over the bluegrass turf and on shedded tracks do quite as well, and then, with his string at the latter point, he can see them with less travel than if they are down south. Oots Bros, have tairen up the first foal of the famous race mare, Turtle Dove, regarded by more than one good judge as the finest yearling in Kentucky. He is by Farandole, sire of the Brooklyn Handicap winner, Banaster, and like his dam, is gray in color. He is unusually large for a yearling and resmbles no little tho sire of his dam, Faraday. His owner will let him become fully developed before training him to any extent, but about midsummer next year he will be a bidder for a number of two-year-old engagements, and his conformation indicates that he will be able to make good the fond expectations of his owners. Besides Banastar, the Oots Bros., have developed many good horses, including the sensational McChesney. A number of amendments to the rules of racing have been proposed by Mr. F. R. Hitchcock, a member of The Jockey Club. The first has to do with the placing of the name of an owner on the forfeit list. As the rule stands at present, the secretary of any association racing under the rules of The Jockey Club, must place in forfeit the name of every owner whose account is outstanding and unpaid ten days after the meeting. Tho proposed amendment seeks to have the timo limit extended to fourteen days and thore is every reason to believe that the association, as well as the owners, will approve of the amendment. If an owner be in California, say, at the close of the meeting, it is impossible to get his account to him and receive a reply within ten days, so that, under the circumstances, there is nothing to do but place his name on the forfeit list. This amendment also provides that after the expiration of fourteen days "all arrears then remaining unpaid and all arrears not then reported shall be regarded as having been assumed by the association failing to make said report, and said arrears shall be paid by said association." As matters stand today, the association must of necessity make good all indebtedness to horsemen, so that tho only effect of the amendment, as proposed, will be to debar them from the use of the forfeit list as a collection agency unless they have placed all unpaid accounts in forfeit within fourteen days of the expiration of tho meeting. As the prime object of the forfeit list is to secure to owners the prompt payment of every dollar due them, it would seem that the spirit of the rule would be fulfilled when the associations assumed and paid all accounts, and that no good purpose would bo served by debarring them from the aid of the forfeit list in collectingaccounts which they had assumed and paid. But, having assumed and paid that account, there is not on the surface any valid reason why such club or association should not be permitted to avail itself of the machinery of the forfeit list. The best two-year-old shown up thus far at Iagle-side is Gravina, by Golden Garter Pink Cottage, and owned by Green B. Morris. Gravina won a sensational race, after being virtually left at the post, with a fortune in money on her back. That good jockey, W. Waldo, whose record was above reproach in St. Louis last summer, was Gravinas pilot in this race, and his effort was one that I aroused the tnthusiasm of the onlookers to the highost pitch. Few jockeys would have won with the start, but Waldo never lost his wits for a moment and won in the last few strides by a nose. Capt, W. H. May and his son, " Bub" May, who have developed and raced so many good horses in the last few years, both oast and west, will have an extensive string out again in 1903. They have already the following nine yearlings that will race as two-year-olds in 1903 : Bay colt halfbrother to Elkin, by Albert Bullet, by Bulwark. Bay colt brother to Poison, by Ben Stroma Strychnine, by Strachino. - "Bjay colt, by Wagner Undecided, by DeceiverT Brown colt, by Top Gallant Glen Hop7by"Glei garry. Bay colt, by Portland Misfit, by Siddartha.TTS Black filly, by Wagner Fabecia, by Harry OFal-lon. t Bay colt, by Pirate of Penzance Lilly B., by Bulwark. jChestnut filly, by Wagner Puzzolana, by Alarm. Bay filly, by Tristan-Gypsy Maid, by Top Gallant. Theseyonngsters and the older horses of thiB stable will be shipped to Memphis after the holidays. The best of the string will be raced east in 1903: F. R. Hitchcock and H. K. Knapp, members of the Jockey Club, have drawn up a number of amendments to the Rules of Racing which will be officially acted upon by the stewards shortly. There are few radical changes. The work is calculated to make the rules of racing clearer and more concise. Messrs. Hitchcock ar.d Knapp have apparently realized that the practice of "doping" horses must ba handled without gloves, for they have drawn the following amendment to Rule 162: "6. Any person who shall be proved to have affected the speed of a horse by the use of drugs or stimulants administered internally, or who shall have used appliances, electrical or mechanical, other than the ordinary whip and spur, shall be ruled off." Another important change has reference to tho starting, the amendment to Rule 104 reading: "By special permission of tho stewards of the Jockey Clnb, or incase of an emergency, the stewards of the meeting, or the starter, a race may be started without a gate." This means that in case the barrier breaks and cannot be repaired without a long delay, the starters will have the power to send the field away. Tne other changes are of minor importance in point of public interest. Word comes from New Orleans that Mallory looks bad and is not within twenty pounds of being the colt ho was last spring. G. C. Bennett brought the colt to New Orleans bscause he is eligible to start in the valuable Preliminary Derby. The Memphis turfman won the Preliminary Derby last winter and he would like to gather the stake in again this year. Mallory will probably be turned out of training after the Derby is decided. A feature of the racing at Ingleside up to date has been the starting of Jake Holtman. Jake has been in grand form. He gets his fields away in marvelous fashion, the recall flag being abolished, never to return in California. The other day six races were started in eleven minutes, an average of less than two minutes to a race, which is easily a record in this regard. It is a common thing for the horses to be at the barrier but one minute before the bell rings "they are off."
