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: I . , , : , ; _ • I [ I LIVE RACING NEWS. A compromise has been reached in the contest over the will of the late John R. McLean, owner of The Cincinnati Enquirer and The AVashington Post. Under the terms of the agreement the entire net income goes to his son, E. B. McLean, whose horses are to be trained next year by AVilliam Garth. This income is estimated at a million dollars a year. The new jockey scales to be used at the New Orleans track are called the Toledo scales. One scale is in the center of the paddock, where the boys weigh in, after which the trainers take charge of the eepiipment. Then after the races they are checked out on the same make of scale, under the judges stand. The jockeys cannot see the weight, as the dial is on the outside. A movement is on foot at Carson City, Nev., for the enactment of a state law that will look to the placing of control of pari-mutuel betting machines under the control of bona-fide residents of the state. This law will apply to all race tracks of the state. It is expected that there will be no legislation looking to the restriction of the sport as now conducted in Nevada. The story of 227,000 spectators at the Melbonrne up this year is one of the latest romances. The Australasian says of the meeting last month- "Mr Byron Moore elid not regard Saturdays attendance* as anything like a Cup record, but was well satis-tied with it under the circumstances." Mr Moore lias been se-cretary of the Victoria Racing Club for more than a score of years. As a matter of fact, the largest crowd ever estimated at the Cup was about 120,000. The filly Narcissus, which won at Havana for Senor Alvarez, cost 00 last winter when bought from J. O. Keene. She is by Samson, a comparatively unknown sire, whose chief claim to fame is that he is the sire of the well-known plater Jawbone. Narcissus can beat a much better band than she vanquished on Saturday. She was the only one Of the Alvarez stable that trainer Burke took to the I nited States last spring. She was ready to race at Saratoga, but struck herself and had to be thrown out of training. The well-known horseman, L. Galbraith, of Independence, Oregon, has been spending a few days in San Francisco. He thinks that country the "best place in the world to raise thoroughbreds or any other breed of horses op account of the feed and the climate He has the stallions Tony Faust and Mil-■ ton Barber on his ranch, together with ten or twelve well bred mares. Among other breeders located there are C. A. McLaughlin and AV. W. Percival and Bert Bagley is breeding a few at The Dalles.— Bleeder and Sportsman.
