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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. President Bush does not believe there will be any path with the New Orleans track graded as it has been. On the outside there will not be a path in the sense that there has been heretofore. But in rainy weather the bad spots in the going are well over to the inside, and the outside will continue to afford the best footing. Horsemen are doubtful as to just what effect the grading and top dressing of sandy loam, five inches of it, will have. . The loam will certainly leaven the gumbo clay which is the substratum of the track so that the going will not be as sticky as heretofore, but it will be longer drying out, and when the rainy season sets in it will probably be a case of mud all the time. "From a betting standpoint there was never a better meeting at Latonia," says the" Enquirer. "There was an average of eighteen books in the line during the entire twenty-nine days, and from the beginning to the ending "the layers had all the business they cared to handle. On the whole the bookmakers quit the best of it." Hungary is not the best place in the world for an American trainer, on account of the recent successes of Americans on the Hungarian turf. This is the opinion of a trainer recently returned from that country. "The only way to make a success," he said, "is j to have an Interpreter or learn the language and learning the language means learning three or four languages. If you try to place your horse in a handicap he had better be ready to carry top weight. The handicapper will say, We know our own horses, and we dont know yours. Not knowing yours means that he will have a package to carry that will anchor him. Dyer was a trainer who met with every success, but he had an interpreter who placed the horses for him, and in that way he escaped many of the unfair penalties that other Americans had to stand." The stables of C. A. Johnson, "Pa" Bradley and J. F. Winters have arrived at Ingle-side. Whiskey King, Bummer, Suburban Queen, Dandy Belle, Tom Kingsley, The Stewardess and "Virginia Boy were among the horses sent out. Jockey J. Boyd arrived with the lot.
