The evening times., 1896-10-28
WHIP AND SPUR.

A 5O-cent field at Morris Park has been
opened To the public.
Eugene Leigh Will race a string of his
horses i'll California this winter.
The horses Of W. NJ. Wallace will race
at Corrigan's San Francisco track next
winter.
Chris Smith is going to dispose of his race
horses in training, including Urania and
HandspUn.
President Maffit, of the St Louis Jockey
Club. will have stable of thoruughbreIis
| next season.
1t is stated that racing at Windsor viii
continue until November ., and possibly to
December l.
There will not be any running meeting at
BrmIn Eh'W 'iiS fai, Tie project haNin.
been bandoned.
Latonia steeplechasts are becoming farci-
cal, and they are seldom run without acci-
dent to jockeys or horses.
The Western jockeys, Thorpeand Scherer,
lead the riders of the country in the number
of winning mounts for this year.
NJ. L. Henry Won S11 ,O75 at the Lexing
ton meeting; Marcus Days stable 81 800,
and Village Farm stable, 81 900.
Halma, after several months rest. is
again in training nd Will he given a fair
test before BIS permanent retirement.
Domingo, who used to be n wonder in
heavy going, has evidently lost his grip, for
he has run unplaced in poor company lately.
They will have an eight days meeting at
Lexington, commencing ON Monday, No
vember 8, two days after the close at La
tonia.
Preston. who finished second to China
Silk in the Futurity, will be retired for a
goed rest. with view OF a hard campaign
next season.
Poor old Ida Pckwick is being run in
selling races. There is universal desire
for her retirement from all true sporting
men in the West.
After winning the Latonia autumn prize,
Western horsemen are unanimous in the
opinion that First Mate is the best three
year-Old in the country.
Jockey Tuberville was indefinitely sus-
pended at the st. Louis fair grounds on NJ on
day, October 10, for his riding of Rounde-
lay in the last raceSf that day.
1t is doubtful If Prince of Monaco will
ever race again. He has been given light
work for a couple of months, but the other
day he pulled up quite lame, and he will
now be reserved for the stud.
While in Montana, Marcus Daily made
Secretary Ed Tiptin a present of any money
which China Silk won in the Kentucky Flu
luEltS 1T LtAlnSlOn. she
won the race, and the present amounts to
$4,000.
Messrs II. Eugene Leigh and p Dunno
have purchased of Gus Strauss the bay colt
Good Times, 2, by imp. Rossington, dam
Famine, by Jils johnson, at the reported
price of $1,000, and the colt will be sent to
California to race this winter.
The prominent Western Jockeys are sign
ing for next year Thorpe will ride for
w. j. Arkeil, Everett for W. IL. Laudeman
Perkins for Byron McClelland, Reiff will
stay With Dr.. Mclean, and Russell will
pilot The best of the Fleischmann string.
The Jockey Club stew ards have issued an
order that in the future all jockeys must
pay their own fines. If it should be dis
covered that the ow ner has paid a jockeys
fine his entries will be refused for the bal
ance OF the meeting at which the action
occrsu. The jockey Who has his fine paid
by someone else Will be suspended for the
balance of the current meeting. The rule
is theoretically a good one, but its enforce
ment will be attended by many -difricul-
ties. II it is successfully enforced it will
tend to make the jockeys more obedient at
the post.