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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The grandstand at the Monmouth Park racetrack has been scld to a firm for old iron. This stand was the largest and finest in the country in its day. It cost over 50,000. It was 970 feet long, 210 feet wide and 90 feet high. The laws forbidding racing in New Jersey rendered the stand of no more use, and it was falling into deosy. The purchasers are Leonard and Co., of New York. The exact price paid is cot made public, but it is eaid to be about one-twentieth of the original cost of the structure. Before the runniDg of the Grand Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga Saturday Sam Hildreth, in behalf of Sydney Paget, offered John E. Madden ,000 for his two-year-old colt WariDg, which Madden agreed to accept. Later on, when Hildreth came around to complete the deal, Madden said he had concluded to retain the colt. Then he started him in the big stake and backed him stoutly to win it. Waring came in in the rear division, and on the surface it now appears that for once Madden has made a costly mistake in the matter of a horse trade. A carload of J. B. Haggins California bred fillies arrived at Lexington Friday from New York, and were sent to Elmendorf, where they-will be put in the harem. They are by various sires. Along with them came the recently imported stallion Bapello, the five year-old son of Ben dOr and Napoli, by Marcoroni. He is to serve some of the Haggin mares at Elmendorf next season. Bapello is qnite a handsome hors?, but is said to have been cf nogreat consequence on the English turf, his greatest achievement being the winning of the Great Foal Stake at a mile and a quarter as a three-year-old. Duke of Melbourne is a colt that has to be pnnched out all the way. He ia inolined to be a loafer and will not do any more than he absolutely has to. He kept closer to his field yesterday than he has in his previous races. Southards vigorous ride was doubtless responsible for the improvement of the colt in this respect. Duke of Melbourne iB the Jim Gore colt that brewer Schorr paid S1,6C0 for as a yearling. Schorr has heretofore been exceedingly proud of the fact that he never let a good horae get away from him, but it looks as though he made a big mis take when he sold Duke of Melbourne to Mr Maflitt. Many well-posted horsemen pick the Duke to win the Chrysanthemum, in face of the fact that the gieat colt, The Conqueror, is here and may start in the stake. St. Louis Republic.
