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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Jockey Gouin, who was suspended last winter in connection with the in-and-out running of May W., has returned from Chicago and reports that an investigation of his case has bscn made by the Turf Congress with the result that he has been reinstated. San Francieco Breeder and Sportsman. Apparently Master Gouin is trying to work a confidence game. He was ruled off by the California Jockey Club, which is the only body that can reinstate him. The California Jockey Club does not belong to the Turf Congress, but is an independent body, the successor to and running under the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association rules. Its ratings are respected and accepted by the Turf Congress, and under no circumstances would the Turf Congress or its Committee on Appeals do, or attempt to do what Gouin is alleged to have stated. The Tampa Fla. people are making preparations to give quite an extended meeting at that point this winter. The intention is to convert the present half-mile track into a mile track so as to conform to Jockey Club rules, and to offer about ,003 worth of purses a day. Horsemen who attended thelittle meeting there last winter were pleased with the prospect, so that if the Tampa people offer inducements to the horsemen and put up experienced men at the head of their meeting they ought to be able to have profitable racing there this winter. Twenty mares have been mated to Kingston, and Mr. Foxhall Keene writes that he could readily ba sold for 0,000. His two best representatives, Admiration and Yulcain, have stamped him as a first-class sire, and from the many superbly bred mares at Castleton, he can hardly fail to reproduce himself. Mr. Keene has elweys had a sentimental attachment for Kingston, as he bred him while he was the owner of Spendthrift. For tho great event of the Brighton meeting, the Brighton Cup, which is run Saturday next, the field will be drawn from the following horses: Don dOro, Bangle, May Hempstead, Briar Sweet, George Bojd, Goodrich, Latson, Warrenton. Don JOro is undergoing a special preparation for this event and is in grand fettle, big and muscular, and looks all over a cup horse. The St. Louis Republic of Thursday says: "J. H. McAvoy stated last night that he had just been notified by wire of the fact that the case of Kid Weller against McAvoy and Applegate for possession of the racehorse Prince McClurg had been decided in favor of the defendants. Mr. McAvoy has his stable at the Fair Grounds, Now that the Prince McClurg case has baen decided in his favor, McAvoy will take his string to Saratoga. In addition to Prince McClurg, McAvoy owns that other good 3-year-old, Hardy Pardee. Prince McClurg is the colt that won the Latonia and St. Loais Derbys." The Louisville Jockey Club has decided not to hold any fall niaetins. One was proposed and considered, but has been abandoned on the advice of Secretary Charles Price. Mr. Price is of the opinion that while a fall moating this year would probably prove both profitable and popular it would bo impossible to got high-l class horses, audit would thus sink to the level of a gambling enterprise.
