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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Though the new seven-furlong straight track will be completed at Sheepshead Bay, so far as laying it out and forming it is concerned, it will not be used until 1900. In a talk with one of the officials he said that there would not be a chance to uso it this season, as it takes a long time to put a new track into shape, even after it is made, owing to the great number of stones and pieces of rock that have to be removed, which has to be done by hand. Every time a harrow is put over a track there, it brings stones to the suiface, and it takes time to clean it and make it perfect. For this reason it is not deemed advisable to give the track a trialkuntil.it is clean and well set. The Thornton Stakes, four miles, will be ran at Oakland February 22. It is of the value of ,000 and it seems probable that it will be contested by a strong field. Good day and track the long standing record for a race at the distance, Fellowcraftfc 7:191, may be eclipsed. The event closed for supplementary entries last week. So far as can now be told the most probable starters are Buckwa, David Tenny, Wheel of Fortune, Adolph Spreckels, The Bachelor, Tempo and Mistleton. Without any other starters this would bo a very strong field for a race at such a distance. All are stayers and fast. At Great Falls, Mont , September 20, last, Tempo beat Scottish Chieftain and Oitler Joe a mile and a quarter in 2:061. The more recent performances of the other horses named are familiar to all turfmen who follow the performances of the hor?03 closely. T. C. McDowell has bought of Milton Young a half interest in the 2-year-old chestnut colts Star Bright, by Aintree-Spaldimore, and Robert Metcalfe, by Harry OFallon Zizi. They cost Young ,550 last fall and are considered very promising youngsters, both having shown ! remarkably fast trials which induced Young to buy them. So far as can be estimated without the test of actual racing Robe t Metcalfe is the beBt of the pair. Of the two colts the Thoroughbred Record says: "Both are highly tried, Robert Metcalfe having shown faster on T. H. Stevens farm track than any yearling ever trained there. In light of the fact that Buckwa, Wary and Florimoro got their first work on that track, the work entitles him to a claim of more than ordinary worth. Scar Bright worked three-eighths with light weight last fall in 3$ over the hill at Lexington, where 37 with weight up, is considered very good." The case of young W. Shields, who was ruled off recently by the stewards of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, has been taken up again for further investigation. He was accused of having paid money to have hit fathers horse, Lord Chesterfield, pulled and found gnilty. Now Alec Shields, the father of the young trainer, has demanded a mors complete investigation. Ho says his son told a number of his friends to bet on Lord Chesterfield, and that several horiemon are ready to prove what he claims to be the facts in tho caso. Other tbings have come to the surface to throw doubt on the evidence on which the stewards acted In the light of his last race it seems clear, however, that Lord Chesterfield was certainly pnlled in the race that mads the trouble, no matter who caused it to be done. A prominent firm of racing men and breeders in California are negotiating with a newspaper man there who has a commission to sell the Australian stallion Tarcoola, and it is expected that the sale will be consummated within the next few days. Tarcoola won the Melbourne Cup, Williamstown Cup and other great races, in all about ,000 in stakes and pnrses, and if brought to this country will be tho first winner of tho Melbourne Cup ever landed on American soil. He is by Newminster who headed the Australian "winning stallions" list for three years from Imogene, by King of the Ring, a grandson of Stockwell, as was Newminster. Tarcoola is now" ten years old and would probably be a valuable acquisition. "I feel very proud of the two-year-olds I have bred," said Ed Corrigan, "and I thiak I have the record. If memory serves me, there have been ten different winning two-year-olds in California thus far this season, and of this number I bred no less than six, including St. Anthony, Jennie Riley, Loch Katrine, Innovator two races and Golden Rule. Yellow Tail has won two races, Ella Boland two, L moid one and Nina one. I believe one of the youngsters I bred won at New Orleans, too." Air. Corrigan will breed fifteen mares this year to the great New Zoaland-brtd horse, Artillery, son of Musket. San Francisco ExumiLer. His Lordship, the eon of R yon aOr Sallie McClelland, will not start in the Tennessee Derby. "The conditions," sajs trainer Smith, "are for colts to carry 122 and fillits 117 Not getting any maiden allowances, but having to carry even weights with the same colts that he ! will, with a big pull in tho weights, meet later in Derbys, it would be injudicious to try to get him ready for so early an event. H he does well, I will start him in the Kentucky Darby and then go on with the remainder of his engagements. All my horses wili go to Louisville witnin the next month." The Thoroughbred Record. Isaac Block of this city is credited with having bought from Welsh and Co of Nieholaaville, Ky., the 3-year-old chestnut colt, Mizo, by Ros-sington Rena B., for the sum f 000. Though he was apparently out of form tuwur.i the close i I of the racingseason Mazo won some very good I races last year, including the Juvenile Stakes at Louisville and the Harold Stakes at Latonia. His best performance was in the Harold Stakes, in which, carrying 121 pounds, he defeated Billy-House, Judge Tarvin and The Barrister. The San Francisco Examiner of last Wednesday says: "Eppinger, G.W.Scotts good-looking bay colt, by Morello Orinda, threw his shoulder out while at exercise at Ingleside yesterday, and, running on, broke the shoulder, though he did not fall. He was taken to a veterinarians in the city in an ambulance and it is thought he will be saved." Fred Fosters recent purchase, Sam McKeever, is a sick horse over at the Oakland track. He is suffering from lung fever, but Foster haB hope3 of saving his valuable horseflesh. San. Francisco Chronicle. The stewards of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club have modified their decree of thirty days suspension of Nick Halls jockey, McNichol, to the extent of allowing him to ride for his employer. "Canadian Sportsman" gives the following as tho names claimed by Mr. William Hendrie for his yearlings: Pando. ch. f, by Semper Rex Banjo. Ferneytickle, ch. f, by Semper Rex La Mer-veille. Red Breast, b. f, by Strathclyde Clover. Swordfish, br. c, by Derwentwater Finnan. Haddie. Volatile, b. f, by Versatile Heatherbloom. Fusima, ch. f, by Derwentwater Omeo. Maple Syrup, b. f, by Derwentwater Sugar Plum Saidbox, b. f, by Derwentwater Bandbox. Flicker, ch. f, by Derwentwater Spark. Kendlewater, ch. c, by Derwentwater Queens Own. Dundonald, ch. c, by Derwentwater Genevra. Rosorana, ch. f, by Derwentwater Irish. Queen. Darnley, br. c, by Derwentwater Favor Me. Doric, blk. c, by Derwentwater Fraulein. Queens Lady, ch. f, by Derwentwater Queens Bounty. Sea Lord, b. c. by Versatile Sea Lark. Saucy Sally, ch. f, by Derwentwater Scotch. Reel. Dainty Davy, b. c, by Versatile Nancy Lee.
