The San Francisco call., 1909-09-01
Gossip of The Turf

It is said that Tom Shaw, the well
known layer and plunger, is $50, 900
loser on. his operations at Saratoga.
The good fortune that smiled on him
last. year has not favored the young
man, who was formerly with Barney
Schneider.
When H. G. Bedwell arrived at Fort
Erie he found that most of the horses
he had claimed or bought out OF sell
ing races were in the Canadian racing
associations forfeit list. He was
obliged to settle for a good sum before
any OF the horses went TO the post.
John ]. Hogan, formerly an assistant
to Jake Hoffman, has been officiating
as starter at Joliet.
Matt J. Winn has started operations
on the construction of the new racing
plant of the Juarez jockey club, which
is to hold a 90 days meeting, COM
mencing Thanksgiving day. The plant
will represent an outlay of 100000.
The track will be mile and an eighth
with the two chutes and the grand
stand. which Will be of reinforced con-
crete. will seat 5000 people.
Twenty-three mares that John e.
Madden shipped to France last fall
foaled last spring and were bred back
to PIaudit and left in France when
that stallion was brought to thisscoun-
try this month. The foals OF last spring
and anything they may throw next
spring will be eligible to start in
French races when they attain the rae
ing age.
The sporting editor of the Tattler, a
London weekly. complains in a recent
issue of the paper that the horses
Harry Payne Whitney has been racing
in England this year have been un-
fairly handicapped. The particular
criticism is directed against the inn
posts assigned to the middle class
horses.
Cabin. a horse that showed good
form at Emeryville, bowed a tendon a
few DAYS before the close of the Ana
conda meeting.
While f. Wooton leads the jockeys
in England. Danny Maher, the Ameri-
can rider, has the best percentage of
winning mounts.
Chicago Race Gossip
CHICAGO, Aug. 3o.-When Sweep
won the Futurity yesterday James r.
Keene displaced Sam Hildreth at the
head OF the winning owners list on the
New York tracks this season. Keene's
winnings to date are $106,69s, as
against sS1,022 won by Hildreth's
horses since he came east from Cali
fornia.
now In California, will be replaced as
starter at the Latonia meeting in Octo-
Der by James Milton.
H. G. BedwelI continues to trade
horses frequently. He sold Joe Rose
and George w. Lebolt TO John w.
Schorr at Fort Erie yesterday.
Martin Nathanson has returned to
Chicago from Montana, but will return
west to serve as presiding judge and
racing secretary for the Helena meeting
of two weeks beginning September 22
Joseph A. Murphy, who has officiated
In various capacities on numerous
raeetracks east and west, including
service on the coast, Is enlisting prom
inent st. Louis citizens In an effort to
re-establish thoroughbred racing in that
city in 1910 His plans call for 13 days
of racing each spring and fall The
plant which the plans call for will pro-
vide for automobile, athletic, aero and
light harness contests and will be
equipped with a golf course.
r. L. Thomas, a Kentuckian, who
races each winter in California, was
the principal buyer at today's sales of
yearlings at Sheepshead Bay. He paid
the top price Of $2,700 for a bay colt
by. Caesarion- Fleur dor, and several
other Caesarions went to him at fancy
prices. Thirty nine yearlings sold
averaged 1857 per head, which is highly
satisfactory.
The 1903 purse winnings of the FIVE
leading American owners now foot up
as follows: S. c. Hildreth, s137.017;
James r. Keene, $104.S4S. II. c. Bed
well, s42,4ss; Barney Schreiber, s41,990;
P. T. Chinn, s57,271