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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The annaal meeting of the stockholders of the New Louisville Jockey Clob was hold at 4 oclock last Thursday afternoon in the office of the clnb, in the Courier-Journal building. A full attendance of stockholders was present. The following directors vers elected by the stockholders to serve during the ensuing year: Charles F. Grainger, M. J. Winn, Louis Soelbach, Charles F. Price, Saunders P. Jones, Walter E. Glover and J. C. Boardman. The board of directors subsequently bald a meeting and elected the following officers for 1903 : President, Charles F. Grainger. Vice President, M. J. Winn. Secretary and Manager, Charles F. Price. Treasurer, J. C. Boardman. It, will be seen that there were no changes among the officers of the club, and the new director is Saunders P. Jones, who is now a heavy stockholder in the organization. This meeting was the first annual gathering of the stockholders since the change was made some time "ago. At that time a board of directors and a set of officers were elected to filljthe various vacancies caused by the change in ownership, and the stockholders yesterday practically ratified the original action. The reports of Secretary Price and Treasurer Boardman were of little interest to the public, being merely routine. However, they showed the New Louisville Jockey Club to be in good financial condition for the many improvements which are being made at Churchill Downs. Julius Fleischmann, mayor of Cincinnati, owner of several high-class thoroughbreds, announced recently that he would devote a groat deal of his personal attention to racing next year. "Im through with politics," says Mr. Fleischmann, "my term of office as mayor expires next spring and Im quite content to step down and out. "I dont imagine Ill do anything sensational off the turf next year, but Ill have Hurstbourne, Irascible, St. Daniel, Wax Candle and Homily to head my stable. These three-year-olds to be are all that I have left of the string I raised during the present season, but I will have thirty two-year-olds from which I expect a few real good ones to materialize. "It has been my custom during the last few years to dispose of nearly all of my horses at the end of the season sometimes at Saratoga but I occasionally keep a horse or two that I have a particular fondness for. My intention, however, is to race two-year-olds almost exclusively, and dispose of them to the best advantage at the close of each season, retaining only a few. " No, I have not decided to race two strings next year. The chances are that I will, however. Im going to try for some of the spring stakes at La-tonia, and may decide to allow Mr. Welch, who will continue to train for me, to appoint a sort of understudy, who will have charge of the string he cant take care of himself. The outlook for racing in the west seems very bright, and I Bhould not be at all astonished if there should be an extraordinary boom in racing next year." According to reports from the coast the case of jockey Bullman is a favorite topic between races at Ingleside. Bullman and Tommy Burns were recently pardoned for insubordination by the New York stewards and have been accepting mounts there. Burns has managed to keep on an even keel, but Bullman has become involved in all kinds of trouble with starter Holtman. He has been fined repoatedly for unruly behavior at the gate and has been set down for three days. He had no sooner served his sentence than he incurred the starters displeasuro and is now down for two weeks. Bullman says that Holtman has it in for him, Holtman stoutly denies it and President Thomas H. Williams says he is satisfied Holtman is not prejudiced against the rider. According to Messrs. Williams and Holtman Bullman is possessed of an ungovernable temper and has a mania for getting off in front that militates against discipline at the barrier and delays starts unnecessarily. Coburn is also under the ban just now, although his case ie different from Bullmans. Instead of trying to "beat the gate" Coburn has displayed considerable lethargy in starting. He has been practically left at the post a few times when piloting favorites, and the judges made up their mind to suspend him indefinitely. John W. Gates was a visitor at the New Orleans track last Friday afternoon, and viewed several of the races from the stewards stand. He was greatly impressed with the many improvements that have been made since he was there last, but was surprised to find the going so bad. Mr. Gates has been on a shooting trip in Mississippi, and will return here in a day or two. In hie party was Robert Welch, a son of Aristides Welch, a famous breeder of twenty years ago. The horses comprising the main racingstring of T. H. Stevens in 1903 have been shipped from Walnut Hall Stud, Lexington, Ky., to Little Rock, Ark., in charge of their owner, who will winter and train there the coming spring. There were fifteen horses in the string, the four-year-old bay colt, Picador, by SVadBworth Miss Rica, by Buckra, and three two-year-olds : Barcil,b.c,by Wads worth Esplanade, by Buckra. Trarfcy, ch. c, by Wadsworth Fonsie, by King Alfonso. InQian Child, br. f; by Locohatchee Austriana, by Alarm. The other eleven head were all yearlings coming pj?o-y ear-olds and were as follows: Bay colt, by Fonso Florimore, by Longfellow. Chestnut colt, by Governor Foraker Susie Forbes, by Rebel. Bay colt, by Wadsworth Aprils Lady, by Lin-den. Bay colt, by Wadsworth Banricka, by Ban Yan. Bay colt, by Governor Foraker Parissa, by Paris. Chestnut filly Bister to Wyeth, by Wadsworth Fonsie, by King Alfonso. Black filly, by Governor Foraker Dublin Belle, by St. Florian. Bay filly, by St. Florian Wary, by Warwick. Bay filly, by Govornor Foraker Esplanade, by Buckra. Bay filly, by Governor Foraker Emily S by Onondaga. Chestnut filly, by Wadsworth Fancy Free, by Fonso. Stevens will do his first racing in the coming year at Little Rock and Memphis, and then come up the line, reaching the oust probably during the Saratoga meeting. He regards his coming two-year-olds as a collection, tho highest tried of any youngsters he ever raised. They are extensively engaged in future events. There will be a new departure inths sale of thoroughbred .stock in this country on Thursday next, when the imported yearling flllios and broodmares bred at the Childwick Stud, St. Albans, England, will be offerod at tho American Horse Exchange. The lot is consigned by Sir J. Blundell Maple, M.P., one of the leaders of the English turf, and whose racing and breeding operations are conducted on a tremendous scale. Hitherto tho annual sale of the Childwick thoroughbred stock has taken place in France, but the sporting baronet has decided to make America his market in future. All the broodmares in the consignment to be auctioned by W. D. Grand are surely in foal, while the yearling fillies embrace some of the most choice strains in the English stud book. The sires represented in the lot are Common, by Isonomy, the winner of the .2,000 Qnineas and Derby in 1901; Childwick, by St. Simon; and iesMiL The following are the broodmares that will bo offered: Dorimene, by Bend Or Link Girl; Spanish Match, by Royal Hampton Allameuse; Marcella II., by Melton Andriena ; Vespers, by St. Simons-La Cloche ; Aretusa, by Melton Arcadia, andGoblet, by Grey Leg Kissing Cup. "Preliminary trials at Memphis, Tenn. of yearling thoruehbreds, which will celebrate their second bimiday on January 1, show several owners in win-tor quarters at Montgomery Park possessed of good invenile racers destined to earn purses or stakes for a903." says a Cincinnati exchange. "Trainers for two months have been busy weeding out the promising material from these that gave no evidence of speed, and C. R. Ellison is the first to give away an aristocratic relative of a prominent turf family. Ellison has more than a dozen yearlings, a majority of which have worked quarters better than 24 seconds. Trainer Mayberry gave away the bay colt by Belvidere Lady Hawkstone. Ellison bought this colt on the strength of his being a full brother to Joe Fray, winner of a California Derby. Ellisons youngster was given to Mickey Shannon, "John M., a "chestnut colt, by Albert Annabel, i has worked well, but Ellison owns his fastest youngster in the son of Kingston Wantage, which ; is yet unnamed. "J. W. Schorr owns twonty-two yearlings, most of them being sired by the dead Esher. They have i received workouts from George Walker, who developed Lady Schorr, Alard Scheck, Endurance by i River, F. W. Brode and other Schorr winners. Walker regards his bast youngster thus far as the ; yearling brother to Judith Campbell. This fellow : is by Esher, and is as large now as his famous sister, which led the list of Schorr winners in the east until sold to John E. Madden. There is also an unnamed colt by Handsome that workod a quarter better than 24 seconds. Schorr yearlings have been askod.to pack high weight in all of their trials, and while the time in many instances has been slow Walker is holding on to all colts and fillies. "G. C. Bennett will have the largest number of two-year-olds racing in his colors in 1993. In addition to some of his own breeding Bennett owns the yearling brother to Fly Wheel, by Falsetto Fright, that has done fast work. Bennett also owns a relative to Savable, the Futurity winner, in the yearling son of Kings Counsel Miss Francis, Strathmoath, Savables dam, being the dam of Miss Francis. Intrusive, the seven-year-old Meddler horse, recently arrived at the Bennett farm and will be bred to Jane, Charm and other former race mares stationed here." Though in perfect stud health at Lexington, KySy the famous sire, Deceiver, owned by tho father of jockey Lucian Lyne, has all his food chopped up for him, even the hay he eats. The horse that has given the turf a John Cooper, a Decanter, a Cover-ton and a Pnryear D., to say nothing of scores upon scores of winners, is coming twenty-thres years old, and save the difficulty he has in masticating his food, he is as hale and hearty as he was ten years ago. Deceiver is now more famous than ever, owing to the fact that he is the first thoroughbred horse Lucien Lyne ever threw his leg over. Lyne rode the noted stallion around the paddocks of Larchmont Stud when the now great rider was in dresses and he and Deceiver have always been stanch friends. Lyne has about abandoned his proposed trip to New Orleans. His salary witlr-the Keenes begins January 1 and on that day he draws one-third of his salary, a trifle over ,666. His trip to New Orleans might result in an attack of sickness, which, if serious, would affact his contracts with the Wall street magnate, so it is likely he will; not bo seen again in the saddle in this country until he returns from abroad. He has made arrange mants to sail for England on February 1 and wijl bo in company with J..O. Keone, another Kentuct-ian, under engagement to train the coming-season for General. M. E. Lazaroff, a Russian jmillionaire.
