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aOSSIP OF THE TURF. It is reported that James Rowe will school The Huguenot over the jumps during the winter, so that he can go in for the big steeplechase evsnts next season. The Huguenot, who is a full brother to Henry of Navarre, made his reappearance late this year, after an absence from the turf of four seasons, and won several flat races in clever btyle. He is sound and well, and Eowe belives he will develop into a first-class "timber topper." Fifteen horses belonging to E. Corrigan have arrived at New Orleans from Churchill Downs, Louisville. In the lot were Layia, Ailyar, Frank Bice, LEtrenne, Artena and Judicious. The lot is in charge of "Bill" Lister. Corrigan himself is expected to reach New Orleans Thursday. He left Louisville Sunday night for Kansas City, where he goes to look over a site for a new race track. Jockey Winkfleld came on with this stable. He will ride the horses which run in the interests of P. Dunne. Mose V. Jacobson, the successful Cincinnati turfman and trainer, has decided to locate in Lexington, Ky and will train a public stable this winter at the Kentucky Association course. He- has already taken up the following four cominer two-year-olds, which belong to J. James, the Windsor Ont. racetrack magnet, and after January 1 he expects to have about fifteen horses in his string: Bay colt, by Applegate Tootsey, by Tom Ochiltree. Bay colt, by Aintree Chantresa, by Siddartha. Bay filly, by Albert Everbright, by Boulevard. Lester, ch. c, by Lazzarone Teeta May, by Blue Eyes. Jacobson is noted as a trainer of that class of horses which are pronounced failures by big stable owners, but once in his hands they develop into good horses. He has sprung several surprises with castoff horses in the last few years. Stories of new racetracks in various parts of the country are prevalent just now. According to current reports they are to be located at Saattlt, Portland, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Savannah, Aiken, S. C, and other places, to say nothing of magnificent Belmont Park and the Metropolitan Jockey Clubs new track near Jamaica. The prosperity of racing in this state has acted as a stimulus to turf promoters all over the United States who believe that if racing pays here, it will pay anywhere. But these enthusiasts should not lose sight of tha fact that one meeting, that conducted at Kenilworth Park, Buffalo, was a failure, even though the races were run under the auipices of the Jockey Club. The reason for the failure of the project, after an extensive outlay of money in building the track, was ascribed to several reasons the more attractive stakes and purses at other big tracks in this state, which kept horsemen of prominence away; the lack of population from which to draw paying crowds and the absence of money in the quantity that makes racing in the metropolitan district a financial success. Bacing in New York and Chicago during the best months of the year is successful, because the crowds visit the tracks and the best horses race in these cities. When the sport shuts down at these tracks, there is practically no opposition to the winter sport at New Orleans and on the California tracks, so that they are able to thrive. But to run a racetrack successfully involves much more of an outlay than the snap judgment promoter has any idea of. New York Sun. The mild weather has enabled anumber of trainers to try out some yearlings at Gravesend track. Among them are several belonging to P. J. Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club. The star of the lot is a colt named Algernon Daingerfield, by Handspring Mon Droit, which is a full brother to the great three-year-old Major Daingerfield, which, among other big Btakes, won the Lawrence Realization this year. The youngster is superbly constructed, with good legs, shoulders and back, and has worked three furlongs in a shade better than 87 seconds. The other Dwyer yearlings are Grand Commoner, a chestnut colt, by Wagner Middle-march ; a colt by Sir Dixon Belle Carter, a colt by Handspring Anna, a gelding by Esher Miss Annie, a colt by Handspring The Lioness, a filly, Dame President, by Prince of Monaco Merry Thought, which is a half-sister to Merry Acrobat. M. F. Dwyer has only four colts. They are by St. Florian Radiance, by Halma Orangeade, by Knight of the Thistle Aurora and by Ingoldsby Hifalutin, respectively, and all have shown fast work. Many improvements are being made at Churchill Downs. One new stable of seventy stalls has been completed, and another of eighty stalls is more than one-third finished. The lines have been laid for the new club house, and work will begin on it at once, and it will be pushed rapidly until the handsome structure is completed. The work of changing the betting shed, paddock, cafe, etc., will also be rushed, as the idea is to get all the improvements completed before early spring, so that everything will be in tip-top shape when the meeting opens on May 2.
