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GOSSIP OF THIS TURF. A dispatch from Chillicothe. O.. the day after Imp won the Suburban said: "Everybody at the Harness home is overjoyed at their favorites success. Miss Harness failing to sleep at all Saturday night, and in consequence was almost prostrated with nervous headache yesterday. Miss Virginia is the youngest one of Uncle Dens daughters, and all her life has been deeply interested in her fathers fine horses She helped to raise Imp, and she was always her especial favorite. She has followed the little mares career with unfailing interest, and thinks there never was and never will be one quite so good. "Miss Harness is a petite blond, a very charming, attractive young lady and an exceedingly pleasant conversationalist. That she has a remarkably retentive mind is shown by the fact that she knows all of Imps forty-three victories, with the date, place, rider, weight and time, and can tell of all or any of them without reference to any record. She is the sole owner of Imp, her father having made her a present of the black queen about four months ago. Mr. Harness is a sufferer from heart trouble, and, after an especally severe attack, decided to place the mare in hands where he knew she would be well taken care of, and accordingly gave her to Miss Virginia. One hundred thousand dollars would not be any inducement for Miss Harness to part with her. "Next to Imp Miss Harnesss favorite on the farm is a half brother of Imp. a two-year old, unearned, by Palestine. He is one of the finest looking colts in this vicinity, and Mr. and Miss Harness expect him to make a record equal to his sisters when he starts out next season." Secretary Ed Hopper, of the Latonia Jockey Club, is preparing a stake race for two-year-olds that, when it is run, will attract the best youngsters in the country and will be in the nature of a Futurity. The stake will be called the Matron, and will be for foals cf 1900 which will make their first running in 1902. Secretary Hopper has not 8s yet framed the conditions of the big race, but jesterday he gave out a few of them. H s will have to bi nominated before the last of October. 1899; ,000 will be added by the club and it is expected the stake will he worth between 15,000 and 0,000. Its first rucniog will be during the spring meeting of the Latonia Jockey Club in 1902 and it will be split into two races, The total value of the race will be split, the colts racing for 60 per cent and the fillies for the remaining 40 per cent. Secretary Hopper expects that the stake will attract the crack t wo-je arc-Ids of the country, and that it will do much toward restoring racing in the west, as eastern owners will no doubt make liberal entries. Secretary Hopper is now busily engaged in framing the conditions of the great race, and expects to announce them in a couple cf weeks. — Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. "Edward Coirigans great two-year-old Golden Bale will have a chance to measure strides with the eastern cracks at Saratoga." remarked George Tutlle, manager of the Burns and Water-house racing establishment. "Golden Rule is just such a colt as Ornament was in his two-year-old form, a short-coupled, stockily-made chestnut, with a marvelous turn of speed eud the tenacity and gameness of a bulldog. Ornament, however, always had a villainous disposition, if I remember correctly, while Mr. Corri-gaus colt is just the opposite. "In liia races at San Francisco last spring he never failed to act like a gentleman, behaving beautifully before the barrier and running as straight as a string. He demonstrated weight-packing ability, and I am satisfied that he will make a sweet colt over a distance of ground, if he stands. He invariably pulled up lame in all his raceB at Frisco, and was priced at ,000 shortly before he was shipped east this spring. I am satisfied that he can b?at any two-year-old I have seen perform at the Fair Grounds." Jim McLaughlin was a little disappointed at the defeat of his colt Charentus by Merry Prince. "Your colt ran a good race, only beaten a head in 1:464. Thats faster than Charentus ever thought of running before," said a vhitor. "Thats all right ! I dont say anything about the horses race, but what I complain about is the way the jeekeys ride nowadays. They are looking around and about them too mucb, instead of looking to the front and watching their own horse. A jockey doesnt want to look around for a horse coming. All he wants to watch for is the shadow. He can Sf e that without twisting his neck around. I ought to kuow — Ive watched for it often enough," — Morning Telegraph. The famous English racehorse and sire, Galo-pin, is dead. He was a brown horse, foaled 1872. by Vedette— The Flying Duchese, by The firing Dutchman, out of Merope, by Voltaire. He won the Derby in 1875 and a number of other races duiiag his turf career, and in the stud has been a brilliant success as a sire. To his credit are St. Smon, the leading sire of England today; Donovan, winner of the Derby and St. Leger and over one hundred winners, among them Galleottea, Galliard, Galore, etc. He has had a loDg career in the stud and his great potency as a sire is shown not only by the performances of his get on the turf, but in the stud. Miss Woodford, the undisputed Queen of the American turf back in the eighties died at Bancho del Pa30 last mouth. The Memory of her great contests with Freeland when that mighty son of Longfellow waB in his prime is still fresh in the minds of the elder generation of turfmen. She was everything an owner could desire in a racehorse aud it is a matter for regret that none of her sons or daughters inherited her greatness. She leaves a fine filly foal by Goldfinch, which is reported as thriving and doing well despite the death of its mother. . T. C. McDowell has changed his mind about shipping to Brighton Beach and he will, instead, send bis stable along with that cf Clay Bros, to Saratoga. Batten, Spirituelle, Bush, His Excellency and Monarda will comprise the McDowell string, while Kilmarnock and two others will be in the Clay Broa lot. They will be shipped on July 1 and will be rested at Saratoga until the meeting at that track begins. C. T. Pattersons promising two-year-old colt Kentucky. b Kicgstot— Meta, who was cut down in the race for the National Stallion Stakes, is coming around all right, and it is thonght he may be able to face the nag during the Sheepshead Bay meeting. Mr. H. P. Headley ha* a right to feel some pride in the fact that Vulcain, winner of the Great American, was bred at La Belle, while Missionary, seconi in the same stake, was bred it Mr. Headleys other rtoctr, t?;m. Beaumont. —Thoroughbred Becord,
