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LATEST FOREIGN RACING GOSSIP. Slieve Gallion Rules Favorite for the Derby — Eremon Wins Another Prize. Slieve Oallion is the favorite at 4 to 1 for the Derby, which is lo lie run at Epsom Downs, in England. Wednesday. June ." . Galvania is next fancied al .". lo 1. Then comes All Black at BHl to !. Wool-winder al UK to s, Bezonian al 100 to 7. and the Pleach horse Ouadi Haifa at 100 ha 7. Since his victory in the Bar! of Seflous Plate at Liverpool Bichard Crokors Orby has eoine into notice lor the Derby. There- is a limitation of 20 to 1 against him in the latesi Loudon betting. C Clancy, tin- Lnglisli steeplechase .Jockey, has liein engaged lo riele- in Denmark during the coming summer. The six v ear-old Dean Swift, which i-- lo carry 118 poiiniK i- the favorite at i to 1 for the City had Suburban Handicap, al one one mile and a qaarter, which is to be run at Epsom Dasrea in England next Wednesday. lc Carter rose the wiaaera of four of the ix races over the- jumps al Ante-nil. Trance. April 4. Ixozak. a fuurteeii year old hoi .-e owned by It. . de Crespigny. won the- Wamtoril Plate for steeple-chasm at the Bungay meeting in Paiglanil, April 4. He wa- i icldi-n |. hi- uwscr, wbo ha- to his credit lillicn ictorie-~ in veipu-nii- out of se-veiileen rides. Mr. Si-basliitii Nolan, a dial iuguished Irish sportsman, died at bis home, ieutian Hill, in Oalway. April .".. He won the Irish Derby with Noble Howard in IBM and owned many horses that raced in Iaigland and Ireland. Among them was The Arrowed, which was brought to tliis. i-ountry last winter and is now in the stul at J. V. Shipps Sunuy Slope Parse, MhHray, Ky. A. INsinann. a acphcw "1 the Consul Ceneral fot Iciuiiark. was kilb-el al Date-hot. England. April I. lie was an amateur rider of some distinelioii and was schooling his bene over a Moeplce Iihm- eoiir-i-wlie-n the animal BWCfrcaT, pit. hod Hie young nun on to his head ami then rolled over him. The atlendauce at Auteuil on Easter Sunday is said to have been the largest in the history of the coarse and the statement has he-en hSBBed that over fOtW.000 wcie luriieit over at the pari inutuel of-tees." The two big internalional races at Osteiul. the Graad Prix dOstende and the ;rand Criterium irosleiiili-, will close for entrii-s April :a» and they will be run Siunlaj, .Inly 7. and Sumlay. July II. respectively. Both races are open Is horses from all .oiinlries. The tirst i for three year olds and upward, peswltlee an-1 allow ani-e-s. al - mile and shoal MNj yard--. It has a value of IM.9M, ,,f which si.ikhi g.K- to the seeaaii; sj.iihi to the third. 11.060 to the fourth, and $."i00 to the fifth hone. The other race is for two ycat eihls at four and one-half furlongs. It will be worth 0,000. ,,f w-hi-h 2,008 to the second, H.088 lo the Ihird, and M0g lo the fourth horse. The veleran Vpsilaatl, half brother to ired Little-fields good twoyearold. Jubilee, is still earning money for A. P. Cunliffo in England. He SMMBe his first sl.-ut of this year in the Rothschild Welter Plate at one- mile over the Jubilee Course at Kemp toll Park on April 1 and tini-hed second to Summer, a three year oM bob of Bashey Park. It was on this coarse that Vpsilanli earned distinction f,,r himself and brought greater respect for American-bred horses as we-11 as two big pots of gold to his owier by winning twice the Ore. if Jubilee Handicap. Stanley Howards Eremon followed up his Orami National BBCceas with a victory in the Lancashire Handicap Steeplecha-e of .t«M , men the three miles and a half at Manchester. April I. He area rielclcn by A. Ne-wey. who was his pilot iu the memorable race at Liverpool. Anie-riiaii joe keys who are figuring conspicuously in Hie rae iug in France this year awe .Iivhnny Beiff. J. Bamh. Winnie OConnor, Cortuack, Milton Henry anil J. Mclnlyre, while Nash Turner takes an eceaahaaal mount in the high weight division. He has ridelen at 12S pounds. Bobert PAsaMSB, aaase a famous joe-key. i1- danger onsly ill at his home in Epsom. He last his wife April as the result of an operation, a, el his brother, Thomas IAnsou. who was distinguished as a hanilicapper for the National Hunt Committee, died March -••.
