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COMMENT ANENT THE BURNS HANDICAP. The one great lesson to be learned from the last Burns Handicap is that horses must be handicapped on their best "form, and not on a few races previous to the running of this event. That is the Voshnrgii system, and it is eminently a sound one. If this plan is followed out hero there will be no qualifying in tlie future. Dr. Leggo could have beaten Proper with even weights, and no owner who appreciates or loves a good horse would taire the chance of shipping a horse so many miles directly in front of an important event. The victory of Dr. I.eggo was not a surprise. He did not figure on form, but racegoers who wager money on information bet on Dr. Leggo. The bookmakers state that he was the best-backed horse in the Burns Handicap. McCafferty thought Ills horse was a certainty, and told his friends. That is why the horse was backed. The officials of the California Jockey Club owe it to the patrons of racing in California to call on McCulTerty to explain Dr. Leggos races at Los Angeles. This talk of having no jurisdiction at Ascot is peculiar, to say the least. Wasnt the horse handicapped on Ills races at Los Angeles as well as at Oakland? The handicapper, in making the assignment of weight, took cognizance of the races at Ascot by giving Dr. Leggo a light impost, and it is up to the stewards to take some official action to prevent a repetition in the futiire. San Francisco Chronicle.
