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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Sam Wagner, the western race track owner and bookmaker, now visiting New Orleans, has quite a formidable string of race horses. There are fourteen of them in, all, eleven of them two-year-olds. These youngsters were picked up in Kentucky and the east, ond judging by the fall trials Mr. Wagner believes that two or three of them may develop into stake class material. He is wintering at the Fair Grounds at Franklin, near Dayton, Ohio, where he has both comfortable stabling and a good track to exercise on. "I dont know whether I will race In the east or not this year," said Mr. Wagner recently. It will depend on how my young stock turns out in the spring training. In any case I will hardly ship east before the Saratoga meeting." Mr. Wagner is one of the principal owners of the Worth Jockey Club, Chicago, and the Windsor Jockey Club, at Detroit. He says that he expects to have a good meeting at Windsor the coming summer in spite of threatened opposition from Grosse Point, for Mr. Wagner thinks there is room enough for both tracks to have profitable meetings.
