The San Francisco call., 1898-08-06
HOW TOD GOT
 HIS RELEASE  Asked to Ride Too Many Sure Things.
LARGEST ST. LOUIS WINNERS
ENGLAND's JOCKEY CLUB TO GIVE MORE LONG RACES.
Riley Grammar, Still Under the Ban, : Plays "on the Outside" at Sara toga-J ockey Hamilton Z. Broke.

Tt has never been known here just
 what prompted the Messrs. Fleischmann ito let Tod Sloan have his release. The
 following appeared recently in the Gin - cirhatI Enquirer, and as the Fleisch-
 maIlns are natives of the Queen City
 there can be no doubt as to its accuracy:
 The cause of his release is due to Sloan's
 ah9bition to ride what he thinks are certain , Winners in big stake events Several times this season Julius Fleischmann has scratched
 horses in big events just to satisfy the Whlm . of Sloan, who could get the mount on the
 IaForlle. It was this that caused the Tnlsun-
 derstanding which resulted in his release. The
 several of their best racers are ready Tor
 stake events The other day Sloan asked per
 mission to go 10 Brighton Beach ana rlde . .ktaEi burg in the Brighton cup. Julius 'FleiSch- mama said that he had accommodated Sloan So often that he thought he should be ac- :cQplTnoqated once ln a while ana uecllheQ to give permission. This was not done without good reason, as MT. Fleischmann had several
 .slazters at saratoga the day the brlsillOtl @ cup was run for at the Beach. Sloan got. warm : =uhder the collar and said he was to receive
 burg: MT. Fleischmann said that was no req, son why he should sacrifice several races ana .ihsn came the argument ana eInpio!eF &.!u Jockey parted without an understandlns. Mr' 'FleiSchmaun came to this city and talked the matter over with several of his intimate - friends: and it was thought advisable to come .t9 some terms with the Jockey; sloan a Was VI1
 agreed that Sloan was to be released and he @>thoH&ht his services have been worth this sea saa. The result was Sloan was released sloan is now at liberty to ride for whom ne .p|eases and a day or so will no donht ma M him riding regularly for Daily. who IS getting .. ready to race in England, where Sloan has g lohElnS 10 shine once more as the greatest or American jockeys.
 :. There Is much doubt regarding. the cor .rectness of the part relaxing to MT. Day :rfecine: in England for he recently de-
 claTed in an interview that he had no desire to race in any other country than the one he called home-the United
 'Sf fhe st. Louis race meeting, now on, : j. C. Calm headed the list or winning
 owners up to August l. with $916O. Other their credit were: Woodford & Buckner,
 S7G6O; C. .. Mohltt, $667O; Barney Schrei- . Der. $6235; 4. Calm, $59sS; c. :. Bennett S5497. and W. l.. Simmons, $5Sl5.
 Riley Grammar is spending the summer at Saratoga Springs, New York, but does ,nor attempt to enter the gates of the < ban of the Jockey Club. He contents
 htalsei$ with playing in pool room at .tbe great interior resort, and with some times sending a commission into the To- cal betting ring.
 : A sIclIling brother to Kingdom Grated as t33e second best two-year-old' in this coun-
 try( died a few days ago on the farm of W. L. Lansing, near Harrodsburg, Ky.
 Andy Hamilton, who rode in California
 and:at the East several seasons for J. B. Haggin. and generally supposed to be wealthy, is reported to be penniless. He is losing his grip as a horse pilot, too, and the future of the famous coIored --TOGhty Is lIhciy lO DC HI4Iy NAAiA-6 CN| bright. the newspapers of England regarding the i large number of sprint races given in that country, the Jockey Club, at its October meeting. proposes to change matters not a little They will give no race of less than five furlongs, and the programme *of each day shall be subject to the follow ing. regulations:
 s | There shall be at least one race of mile and a half upward, and at least one race of a mile upward. Neither of these
 ra ces shall be open to two-year-Olds; and one
 Of them shall be neither a handicap nor a race :I.lth selling conditions.
 .. 3 There shall not be more than two races -.p which three -year-olds or upward are ad- rriftted of less than seven furlongs, ana or these two races only one may be less than six a- e the races confined to two-year-olds, there shall not be more than two races a day before September l, nor more than three a day @ 4. Matches and private sweepstakes may be sanctioned by the stewards, independent or the above regulations.
 Besides. at every. meeting under the Jockeys Clubs Jurisdiction not less than half the money hung up shall be for races of a Ia;le or over, for three-year-olds or ilriward only, and of this half, not less :fhail.a moiety shall be for races of a mile and a half or upward.
 = Tn some of the AUstralasian colonies tflera will be a fewer number of races f-iv6n. for twO-year-Olds. it being held that they are injurious rather than bene-