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RACING GOSSIP FROM THE EAST. New fork, January i:;. — Henry T. Oxnard. who has Kins James ai his Virginia farm, reports thai Hii- horst ii.s grown and improved greatly since l„ ■imr put into the stnd. He now weighs 1.290 pounds. George P. Kusti«;. who returned to the turf in earnest recently, has said that he will send a number of hi- mares hi Kins James ibis season. Mr. Bustis recently received word from France thai Alfred .No.ie. tin- steeplechaser he purchased mat season, is now perfectly sound and traiaittg welL The Eustis horses In France are being trained by Preston Burch. who i also handling the iKwses oi William Astor Chanler. Jockey Joe Byrne, the American rider win. has been signed to ride In France for Joseph E Wide ner. sailed laal week to report t,, Thomas Welsh, trainer ,.f the Wideoet horses abroad Incblentally Mi. Wideiier will race under the tiame of I.. WinmI on the other side. He takes this name from f.vnne wood, the inline of hK Pennsylvania farm, and it is n-.-i rather than his own because of the Titanic | disaster in which be lost ■ brother and ■ nephew. George WMener. Jr., has made several entries iii the Futurity •.! the Coney Island Jockey Club. ;.« be run iii 1913s ami he contemplates racing a con siderable string of horses oyer American ionises. He has engaged the steeplechase jockey. J. Lynch, to i id. hw i io — couHtrj horses daring the coming - ason.
