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FOREIGN TURF TOPICS. There Is a new jockey idol In England. He is Frank Wootton, aged thirteen, son of It. Wootton of Australia. The Had and .his father have leen in England but a -short while. The father is the owner of some good horses. He lias been identified will the turf for a number of years, racing In Australia and Soutli Africa. The boy has been carefully -taughT. ttl had never ridden a winner until he reached England. The English papers are fullrjjf praiserfPTr-Mm-- He has won-a number of important races the past thirty .days. His .father lias already been offered flatteringliniViVcements from several of fh principal establishments for his services next seasne but he has declined them all. Thet Londp.iv Sporting! Lfe says of the youngster: "Woo.ttpnis; anpj her-Johnny Reiff, and possibly an iniproyciiifnt-on that HfUe- American wonder. He rides: Ijlje " a Johnny -slwriie and a Fred Archer compliiedl He s unassuming arid, if all goes well , witi; ini, looks likp making a great n.inie for himself." "TherPvarili suppoeiJrto be no bookmakers, but. yon maj call therm what you like; there are plenty of fielders r : iirPflrJs who. do a big" starting price business, and they luyve agents:, at nearly, every, cafe," Sqys 10 Engljsh racing critic wrltiug from : Paris; "fit- course, tjiis business is done in defiance pf the InW-tnitr the police are very tolerant: so-icing aslhWe are: ho complaints." The" Gr.ind Criterion Beige; the principal two-year-obi rpce of the-year at Brussels, was won by-La NVa," a. filly, by "Masler of the Horse, out of Lady Nithsdale, owned by Mr. George Ashman. The distance was a mile and ltk yards, .so that the fillys staying powers were puf to the test, anil she came through the ordeal with, flying colors. Atthewle of the Com te de Pels horses-In Paris the Belgian owner,- M. F. BrugnuVmi, .gave ,100. for Hymer, a three-year-old .colt by . Flying Fox, out: of Amnistie. Thlslliorse wVm the-Prix tin Trocadero last May at Longchamps, arid, also scored at Vichy. M, Brngmatm intends leaving the liorse in Prance to be -trained by kugene Leigh. T. B. Holmes, who was the owner of that downright good -steeplechaser, Tipperary Boy, winner ! three times of tlie Galway Plate, died recently in Ireland lie. was for years rone of the .-most conspicuous figures in Irelands, racing life. Richard Crpker is negotiating for the purchase of Killyleagh, sire of " KilleagiV. It Is his Intention that he" shall stand at the Blencairri Stud. Jolin Rees,- tlie Hungarian trainer, has offered "Skeets" -Martiit ?10,C00 and traveling expenses to rido for his stable next season. As the result "of a recent flood- the llorphettsvilld vrace course, in Australia was entirely inundated and bodily damaged.
