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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Mose Goldblatt and Charlie Ellison will ship their strings by express from Latonia to New Orleans. They will leave Cincinnati the latter end of the present week. E. R. Bradleys stabie will winter at Montgomery Park, Memphis, while G. Hendrie and S. E. Parmer and Co.s lot will go direct to Cumberland Park, Nashville. Several stables, including those of C. C. McCafferty, J. C. Ferris, Jr., .T. J. Zurborg, J. S. Williams and E. Corrigan, ship to Los Angeles, Cal. J. J. McCafferty has decided to sell all the horses he has in training, and it has been arranged to hold the auction in the paddock at Latonia next Saturday. The lot includes Alfred C, Frank Rice, Lady Radnor, Light Hunt, Charlie Grainger, Lofter and Firing Line. In addition to these four from the string of Charley McCafferty will be sold. Through the medium of the selling races the latter has more than a car load to take to San Francisco, and he has decided to dispose of Lodestar, Tufts, North Wind and Propeller. Captain P. J. Carmody, who organized the Union Jockey Club, which has just completed a 00,000 racing plant at St. Louis, while a visitor at the Latonia racetrack last Saturday had the following to say in an interview: "Our plant is one of the prettiest in the country. The grandstand is constructed of steel, and is 400 feet long and 125 wide, with the betting ring underneath. The stand alone cost us 5,000. We will have stabling capacity for 1,000 horses, and the barns are modern and comfortable. We will make application for dates from the Western Jockey Club at the meeting in December, and we hope to get them. We will ask for but thirty days, and since the law in Missouri provides for 180 days racing, and is intended that no one interest shall have special privileges over another, it seems no more than reasonable and just that the governing body of racing in the west grant our request. If the dates are not granted we shall have to devise other plans. It does not stand to reason that we would expend so much money for a plant and let it stand idle. We are not hard pressed for money. In fact, we have a fund ample to guarantee all of our stakes and purses, and we propose to give the people some high-class racing. We will inaugurate the first meeting with a 0,000 handicap." With the close of the meeting at Latonia but a few days off, owners are already making preparations for their departure for pastures new. "Very few of the stables racing there will go into winter quarters. The greater part of them will go direct to New Orleans. A special, composing twelve horse cars, will leave for the Crescent City track over the L. and N. Road next Sunday night. It will be made up of the following stables: Doyle Bros., J. Mannion, C. Hak and Sons, J. Maiden, T. Miles, C. Hellebush, R. Pendleton, W. R. Griffin. J. J. Marklein, W. S. Laird, W. O. Joplin. W. S. Price, W. J. Carroll, J. S. Rothert, M. S. Stowe, T. Hatfield, C. K. Burdeau, J. W. Fuller, J. Phillips, W. Robbins and H. Simons.
