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NEW YORK SCRAPS OF TURF NEWS. New York. December 10. The Havana Telegraph strongly favors racing in Cuba, as the following comment on the opening of the season there clearly indicates: Havanas racing season opened yesterday afternoon with good races and none of the disagreeable features which last year made the race meet unpopular. "Racing in Havana, if properly managed, will do more to TMipuIarize the city as a winter resort for the spending class than anything else could, but it must be- properly managed. The track must be kept in good condition, the races must 1m run square am1 the books must be fairly made. If the blightest. suspicion that the track management is playing ipto the hands of the bookmakers, or even permitting the latter to combine unfairly against the. belling public, is aroused, it will be all off and racing hi Havana will receive a black eye. from which if will be hard for it to recover." Jockey Pickering, who rode for L. Stuart for several seasons, has been in South Africa for the past few years and is said to have achieved considerable success at Cape Town and Johannesburg. Jockey Lucien I.yne has departed for his home in Kentucky, where he will spend the Christina holidays. The former well-known jockey. "Puddin " Mc-panlel. will engage in business at Sheepshead Rav. having purchased a piece of property on Kings Highway, where he will build a billiard hall and several howling alleys. Trainer Winslow lias The Gardener in Morris Kraus stable at Gravesend. The colt has spread and grown considerably of late and may develop into a good three-year-old. The fast filly. Queen Marguerite, is quartered in the HihlretlL stable at Sheepshead May. and is reported to lie doing well. -Matt Allen says that his iMerry Night. District Attorney and Detective hare Ibeen kept out in the open since the racing season closed and are consequently in the best of condition. W. O. .Scully is sorry that he did not send Pins and Needles to Log Angeles, as ho is confident that his Knight of thoThistle illy is much faster than Norbitt, si cast-off from his stable, .which ran a mile in 1:.!S a few days ago. During the December sales at Newmarket. England, several yearlings to lie offered are bv that famous stallion. Collar, the sire of J. L. McGinms great racer. Frank Gill.
