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HORACE EGBERT AT WORK AGAIN. Gossip of the Stables and Men Who Are at Oakland, Cal. Oakland, Cal., October 29. Judge Horace E. Egbert was at the track today for the first time since his return from Seattle. He said he had just received a letter from Barney Schreiber stating that he expected to spend a good part of the coming winter at Oakland, and would have a good-sized stable here in charge of Dave Henry. A section In Millionaire Uow will be occupied by the horses-. Sam Ilildreth and his trainer, John Lowe, are putting the horses shipped1 from New York through their walking paces to wear off the staleness of shipping. Ilildreth has made l.iO. nominations to twenty-one stakes and Ids colors will lie seen on the- track nearly every day of the meeting. R. F. Carman has made 110 entries to stakes and W. B. Jennings has also made a large number. Trainer Buxton, of the Fleur de Lis Stable, has returned from New York, where he spent several months, going there from Seattle at the close of the meeting there. He says his young brother. Jockey M. Buxton, did remarkably well in the east and has grown considerably since going there. W. Cahill made all of the engagements for the boy. The youngster will return to Oakland after the close of Aqueduct. Superintendent Grant closed the big track yesterday on account of the heavy rains and horsemen were obliged to use the inside track for their workouts. The W. OB. Macdonough horses have been removed from the private stable at Golden Gate Park to stalls at the track, where II. M. Mason will be better able to fit them for racing. The horsemen here have been complaining about the increased cost of hay and oats, the impossibility of getting straw and stalls, but they are now confronted with a raise in the price of plating their horses. The horse.-sboers have entered Into an agreement to raise the price of putting plates on a horse from .50 to $.1.00, which will incur a considerable additional outlay in getting the horses ready for raciug. Some of the owners are threatening to do their own plating, but this would be out of the question with all of the larger stables. James Blute, trainer of the Carman string, was an interested spectator when Uncle and Meelick made their first appearance on the track. Blute says It- will be hard to distinguish between them with colors up. J. S. Hawkins arrived with his horses from Latonia and in the same car came six owned by J. D. Stevens. The best horses in the Hawkins string are Wing Ting, Ovelando and Manchester. The two-year-old Cloyne is probably the bes horse Stevens will have here. A. W. Ream has turned out his filly, Forest Rose. Doctor Rowell will be the only horse he will race at Oakland this winter. Dr. Leggo is going sound these days and he has been entered In the three big distance events of the meeting, the Burns Handicap, the Waterhouse Cup and the Thornton Stakes. The old horse could not be got ready Tor the Opening Handicap and otiser early events. If he should happen to win the Burns Handicap it would le his second victory in the 0,000 fixture, as he won it in 1905 in the record time for the event, 2:05s. The year before Dr. Iggo won the California and also the Los Angeles Derby and last year he captured the Christmas Handicap. Red Leaf has been doing so well the Keeue brothers have entered her in several of the stakes. 1 The Keenes have made entries to most of the fixtures, but Boas, which at one lime gave promise of proving a good horse, has not been named for the Derby. This colt was quite sick for a time, hut is all right again. President Williams made his first visit to the track since his return today and expressed himself as well pleased with the condition in which he found things.
