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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Charles Gray, the American jockey who returned o America the other day after a successful cam--paign in Austria and Hungary, speaks in glowing "terms of his experiences in those countries, says an eastern exchange. "Wo all did well over there," said Gray, in talking with friends recently, "and the racing flourished. A native Hungarian who Tides with the short stirrup and reins led the Jockeys of the season with minety-nino victories to his credit. Fred Taral was second with sixty-eight. Bussell,a California boy, was third with forty-four, and I ranked fourth with forty-three. Charles Van-duEen was right at my heels with thirty-nine, and would probably have done much better had ho not been set down for fouling. I rode lor thp stable of Herr von Egyedi, a rich Austrian, and have been engaged for next season at a salary of ,009 for first call. Baron Springer will have second call on my services for ,500. There are many really good horses in Austria and Hungary the best of them being, I think, Llubar, who can pick up 140 or 150 pounds and carry his burden home ahead of any other horse in the country. They have some crack sprinters over there, too. Taral rode a big brown horse which he said was as great as Domino was in his palmiest days. Another good one was Passe Partout, not the old jumper, but another horse with the same name. He could break last and then run over his field. Jimmy Dyer, an American, was the bast trainer in Austria and Hungary. The for-oigaers marvelled at his success. Capt. Koimer, a retired cavalry officer, is the best starter over there, and I think he is as skillful as Dick Dwyer or Jake Holtman. They use the barriers just as in America. The stewards are very strict, but at the same time have always treated Americans with great fairness." "Made in America" is the only recommendation a jockey needs in Europe. The old-time rider, "Johnnie" Tabor, now training a stable of horses at Sheepshead, has received an offer to ride for a Russian turfman next season and is turning it over in his mind. If boys of the class of Rigby can earn 5,000 or 0,000 a year on the other side, Tabor sees no reason why he cannot go and do likewise, and he is disposed to make the attempt. None of our jockeys, it ssems, is so incompetent as not to be able to distinguish himself in the old world. New York Sun. Many of the old guard of racegoers will also remember Tabor as the rider of Toano, with which S. C. Hildreth pulled off one of the greatest, if not the largest, coup in this country during the winter of 1891-92 at Guttenberg. Toano was backed in every poolroom in the country and from 100 to 1 down to favoritism at post time. M. Goldblatts stable h as been in great form at New Orleans. He has only started four of his horses up to date, Brief. Jessie Jarboe, Travers and Latson. These four have carried his colors in seventeen races and in eight of them they have returned winner. Brief was started only once, but the going did not suit her and she was unplaced. Jessie Jarboe hat buen the principle bread winner of the barn. She has run in seven racaB and has won four of them, her last three starts being victories. She was second in two of her other starts and unplaced but once. Travers won two races and was third once, while Latson has two victories, one second and a third to his credit. The only time that Latson was out of the money was when W. Hicks rode him. It was common talk around the track that Hicks pulled Latson in that race. Thursday Jessie Jarbqo was the extreme outsider in her race, and in face of the fact that the mare had won both of her previous starts. One of the New Orleans stewards, in discussing the Moabina scandal several days ago, refers to tha machinations of the culprits who engineered the job as villainous. "Why, those men did not stop at anything to achieve their purpose. A human life would not deter them. Why, they actually sent out Moabina with her girth strap almost severed. After the horses left the post, it is said, one of the rail birds saw it snap and dangle to the ground. The man endeavored to yell a warning to Hicks, but to no avail. How the boy retained his seat, and was not precipitated under the hoofs of the flying horses, is beyond comprehension. The jobbers meant to stop the mare, even if it were at the sacrifice of the boys life. Expulsion from the turf is too mild a punishment. These man should be placed in the hands of the civil authorities." . James Rowe, the well known trainer, took a drive last Wednesday afternoon and wound up at the Hoffman House, where he spent some hours receiving the congratulations of many friends on his rapid progress. He said, in answer to an inquiry, that his doctors tell him he can go out every day, and he may decide to return to Brookdale by Sunday. The trainers fine constitution and naturally robust health have greatly aided him in his rapid progress toward his usual state of health again. Among those whom he received at his impromptu reception in the Hoffman House corridor were Lucien Appleby, J. W. McDonald, James Ville-pigue, T. Foley, John Tubbs, Charles Reed, S. Mannheimer, A. Lakeland and Messrs. Ellis, Roche, Northrqp and others. General solicitude for his welfare was a source of much gratification to the convalescent. As he put it himsalf, he has not received so much attention since his bad fall from Springbok at Saratoga a quarter of a century ago.
