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ST. LOUIS GOSSIP. Of current incidents touching owners, horses and riders at the Fair Ground, Fridays Republic says: "Colonel William L. Simmons, the distinguished Kentucky turfman, is haviDg all kinds of haid luck with his string of horses at the Fair Grounds. Ben Bramble, the star three-year-old of the stable, is heavily engaged in the western three-year-old classics and his owner expected to prepare him here for his engagements, but the colt took to coughing soon after * the arrival of the stable at the Fair Grounds and had to be thrown out of training temporarily. Ed Farrell, the crack handicap horse of the Simmons string, is as big a loafer as he ever was, and his owner is having all sorts of trouble trying to condition the horse for his local stake engagements. Tbe grand-looking bod of Order more than he absolutely has to, and is a poor work horse. This colt has many valuable stake engagements also and is expected to develop into one of tbe juvenile stars of the western circuit. Colonel Simons has not started a horse at the Fair Grounds yet. Every horse in his magnificent stable has been coughing more or less, and the Colonel doesnt know just when he will be able to send a horse to the post. "Paddy Tomlinsons magnificent Sir Dixon colt The Conqueror is credited with having worked five-eighths of a mile at the Fair Grounds yesterday morning in 1 :01 flat with his weight up. The Conqueror is thought to be the crack juvenile at the track. "Colonel William L Cassidys useful race mare Kittie B. went wroDg at Newport this spring and her trainer, Bill Whelan, says she may not be ready to race at tbe Fair Grounds until late in the season. Kittie B. is a grand mare, and Colonel Cassidys friends were in hopes that she would win many purses for him at the St. Louis meeting. With Kittie B. on tbe shelf, the Cassidy string is rather weak. "Barney Schreibers clever lightweight rider, Jack Ward, arrived from San Francisco yesterday morning, and rode his first race on Elbe in the second event. Ward is a most improved boy. He is alert at the post and knows the shortest way home. Ward and Clem Jenkins were the crack jockeys at Frisco during the closing days of racing at Oakland. Jenkins has aiso arrived here and will be seen in the saddle in a few days. He is under contract to Dan Honig. the St. Louis horseman. Honig has brought out Fred Taral, "Buttons" Garner, Charles McDonald and other boys who were crack jockeys in their day."
