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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. A dispatch sent from Louisville Wednesday night to a Cincinnati newspaper says: "Pat Dnnne got in yesterday afternoon with Survivor, coming all the way from. Oakland, Gal. The horse stood the trip well and was as lively as a kitten when led from his car to his stall with Salvable and Bannockburn and the rest of the Dunne string, which has been at the Downs for several weeks awaiting Mr. Dunnes return from the Pacific Coast. Mr. Dunne him-self is in the best of health and spirits, and is very hopeful over Lis prospects for the coming racing season, as his horses have all wintered well and give promise of doing even better for him than they did last year. Mr. Dunne is particularly gratified over the way Bannockburn has broadened and filled out. The big brown son of Hayden Edwards and Bettie Blaze, who won the Louisville Futurity, worth 10,000, two seasons ago, is now a slashing big four-year-old and is one of the handsomest horses at the Downs. Salvable, too, has wintered remarkably well, and the conqueror of Ornament in last years Montgomery Handicap at Memphis is likely to swell the Dunne bank roll considerably this season. "The string of W. S. Barnes, of Lexington, got in yesterday afternoon. This string includes fifteen horses, mostly two-year-olds, royally bred, and most of them fine looking youngsters. The most interesting one in the Barnes stable is the fine looking three-year-old filly, The Lady in Blue, one of the most talked of fillies out last season in the two-year-old division. She was widely touted, it will be remembered, to win the Futurity atSheepshead Bay, and the Lexington contingent had wads of money down on Mrs. Barnes pretty filly. She did not show in that race, but before the season was over she did win races in good company. "Middleton and Jungbluths Eugenia Wickes, now a fine-looking, though stockily built, little mare, five years of age, is looking particularly good just now, and Arthur Newsom, the popular trainer for the Middleton and Judgbluth stable, says he expects Eugenia Wickes to win. a goad part of the stables feed bill this spring, summer and fall. The mare has pulled through the winter well, and, though she is fat and weeks and weeks away from a race, she is in good health, is good tempered and takes to her work that is, the little that has been given to her so far very kindly. "There iB a good deal of coughing among the horses at the track here, as the bad weather, rain, snow and chilling blasts of air that even the well-hung stable doors on the large and comfortable stalls at Churchill Downs cannot keep out, being a continued menace to the colts and fillies that come into their stalls heated from their exercise work." President Williams, of the Oakland, Cal., track, was asked the other day if there was any truth in the report that bad feeling existed between Oakland and llngleside. He replied: "There is none. A couple of years ago at a joint meeting I suggested that in case of a fire or any event which would prevent racing at one track, the other could bo used. If you remombor, no provision was made for such omorgoncies in our original compact. My suggestion was approved of, and when racing was stoppod at lngleside, we tendered tho Jockoy Club the use of this track. Thero has boon somo disagreement over the management of tho tracks. I have always been in favor of good salaries. I like to see men well paid and 1 beliovo by following this policy you keep racing cleaner. The lngleside people run their track at a less expense, an4 over this matter there has been some dispute, but noth ing serious. We want to see racing go on in San Francisco, but if it cant, as I said before, the lngleside people can come here and finish the season." Judge Murphy watched the Burns Handicap with a critical eye. "Riding won the race for Fleur de Lis," said the judge. "Hennessy made his ride altogether too soon on What er Lou, and he should have finished on the outside with his mount alongside of Fleur de Lis. I also think that Jones made a mistake in taking Satsuma to the front. I am satisfied that the third horse was best and should have won." This is the consensus of opinion of nearly all the horsemen. Piggott stated after the race that Napamax was going the easiest of the entire field along the backstretch, and he thought that she would surely win, but she stopped as if shot. The mare pulled up very sore and was a little lame going to the post. San Francisco Chronicle. One of the fastest moves made by any of the 2-year-olds at Memphis was done a few days ago by A. Cahna Southern Girl. br. f, 2, by Free Knight Sarah DaviB. Breaking at the half-mile pole, she worked to the stand in :49i, with a ninety-pound boy up. Several owners make the time :49. This filly is entered in the Ardelle Stakes.
