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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Attention is called to the sale of thoroughbred yearlings to be conducted by the Fasig-Tipton Company at Madison Square Garden, New York, Monday, June 19. The sale is scheduled to take place at night, when fifty-eight choicely bred yearlings, the property of Col. W. S. Barnes, Mrs. Byron McClelland and other Kentucky breeders will be led out under the electric lights for inspection and sale to the highest bidder. Colonel Barnes says his consignment is about the best ever sent out from Melbourne Stock Farm and that is saying a great deal. Catalogues can In obtained by applying to the Fasig-Tipton Company, New York. The American Horse Exchange, of which Mr. F. M. Ware is manager and treasurer, will conduct a number of the most important sales of thoroughbred yearlings of the year this month. Their first sale of the season will be at the Sheepshead Bay sales paddocks Friday, June 16, on which date the yearlings of the Mc-♦Cirathiana, Runnymede and Oakwood farms will hi disposed of. The sale is likely to be one long to be remembered from the fact that twenty-five Hanover colts are in the Mc-Grathiana consignment and that many of them will bring such long prices as make the sale sensational is assured in advance. The Hanover colts are chestnuts from Arragon, Squeeze, Maria Stoops, Rhody Gale, Tidbit, Lida Stanhope, Theora, Jennie Lee, Hot Scotch, Bad Luck and Lizzie Lee, bays from Bessie Hinkley, Reveal, Confidence, Colleen Rbue, Retrieve, Mrs. Manton, Vera, Anna Gray and Ida Walton and Browns from Jersey Girl, Help and Device. The last of the Hanovers will he sold next year so that owners with long parses have only two chances left to secure another Hamburg or Ben Holliday and they will be sore to make the most of their limited opportunities to secure specimens of the progeny of the famous dead sire. Other sales to be conducted by the same establishment are of the Belle Meade yearlings June 20 and 21. The Ellerslie yearlings June 26 and the Dixiana, Ashland, Mere Hill and others June 30. Mose Goldblatt. the Cincinnati horseman, and Jockey R. Brophy, a colored rider, were suspended for the Latojit meeting for fighliDg outside the track after the latt race on Tuesday.. Brophy made the charge to the judges that Goldbiatt had asked him to pall Little Land, who lau second in the last race Tuesday. An investigation developed that Brophy wag romancing, for Goldblatt bit 00 on Little Land, and produced evidence to that effect. It seems that B-ophy and Goldblatt became involved in a quarrel en Tuesday over money matters, which ended by the latter whipping the jockey. The jockey, in order to get even, it is presumed, then maib the above charge to the Latonia judges. For fighting, the judges suspended both from the privileges of the track for the balance of the meeting, and Brophy was given a lecture about making false charges.— Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A gentlemens race came off at Latonia recently. It was largely patronized by fashionable people and voted a bowling success by all concerned. Ed Hopper likes to cater to racing enterprises that make people think well of Latonia so he has devised a new race for gentlemen riders, particulars whereof are tnus set forth in a Cincinnati newspaper. "Another geutl* mans race will be given at Latonia and it promises to eclipse in intereet that given at the over-the-river track recently. It will be a tri-state racs, two gentlemen from each of the three states— Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio— taking part in it. A couple of members of the Warrenton Hounds Club of Virginia, Messrs. Hove and Maddux, were the guests of a prominent railroad official of this city at Louisville on Derby Day and on their return home they stopped over in Cincinnati and were entertained by President Sherlock. They are enthusiastic horsemen, and when President Sherlock, in the c mrse of conversation on racing matters, suggested that at some time during the present meeting at Latonia a race for gentlemen riders might be arranged and invited them in such an event to come here and take part in it, they readily assented. When the other cup race was arranged for it was thought best to make it exclusively for members of the Cincinnati Riding Club, and. of course, the Virginia gentlemen could not ride in it. That race was such a success that President Sherlock has suggested to the Latonia management the advisability of giving another. His suggestion of a tri-state gentlemans race has met with approval, and he has been authorized to arrange for it. Messrs. Hove and Maddux have been communicated with on the subject, and the former has written that they will be pleased to do their part toward making the proposed race a success, and that they cin be here to ride either Saturday, the 17th inst., or the following Tuesday. They will represent Virginia in the race. Mr. Zske Arnold, a nephew, of Brent Arnold, the well-known railroad official, will be one of the riders from Kentucky. The other gentlemen to represent Kentucky and the two who will represent Ohio remain to be chosen." The announced intention of the Whitney-Paget stable not to start Jean Beraud again until the Realization is really satisfactory. It will be a great triumph if the His Highness colt can be returned a winner over such a distance as a mile and five furlong- It will take a long, steady, careful preparation to give him a chance, and the hope of success would have been decreased by every race he might have been called npon to run in the meantime. Mr. Whitney seems bent on cornering the horse market, which is a pretty hard game for any man to l.aj . however much money he may have, so long as horses are not mere racing machnes, hut are subject to infirmities and change of form. Still, it would be a notable triumph for the Westbury Stable if it could capture the Suburban with Tillo and the Realization with Jean Beraud. New York Journal.
