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GOSSIP OP THE TURF. Dr. A. W. McAlester, the veteran Missouri breeder, reports a crop of fifteen thoroughbred sucklings on his farm near Columbia. Among the bunch are full brothers to Lady Callahan and Belle of Memphis, two of the best known performers ever raised on the McAlester farm. There are ten celts and five fillies in the bunch. A fall brother to King David is said to be one of the best looking colts on the farm. Another good looking colt is a chestnut by Joe Norwood Kentish Rose, the latter being an inbred Lex-ington.mare. A bay filly by Woodmoss Nar-cissa is well thought of by her breeder, Nar-ciesa, the dam. of this filly, is a young mare by Siddartha Lady Nar. The latter had a creditable racing career on the other side of the big pond. A bay colt by Siddartha Cantatrics, dam of Woodtrico and Sidcan, is said to have all the earmarks of a racehorse, Among the fillies are two three-quarter sisters to Lady Callahan and Belle of Memphis. One of them is out of Gold Bangles, whoso dam also threw Belle of Memphis, while the other is out of Boetitia, whose dam threw Lady Callahan. Silver Bangles has gone blind. She killed her last years foal accidentally. This year she foaled a colt by Siddartha and the youngster was taken away from her and turned over to Mibb Bowling, who lost her own foal. Miss Bowling is the dam of Sidbow, the two-year-old that won the Essex Stakes for Charles Yan Staddiford, of St. Louis, at Windsor last Saturday. St. Louis Republic. Last year Mr. Marcus Daly sent Hamburgs dam, Lady Reel, and other select broodmares to England to be mated with the most fashionable English sires. To the lot sent over he has added by purchase there. In a recent letter to the Spirit of the Times "Yorkshireman" makes the following interesting allusion to the band, aand also to some of the crack Australians now exciting so much interest in England: "I had the pleasure of going with Mr. John Mackey the other day to the Stuu Farm at Aperfield Court, Cudham, Kent, where Mr. James Mc-Caig has Hamburgs dam in foal to St. Simon and a dozen or more broodmares besides, all of the highest class. Indeed, I should find difficulty if asked to mention a finer young matron and foal than Lucy Cross, by St. Simon, out of Yerdegris, by Springfield, and her superb colt by Isinglass. Mr. McCaig has laid the farm ont in splendid large paddocks and ail the buildings are as near perfection as possible. Mr. Mackey and myself were greatly pleased with all we saw. A day or two later Mr. Mackey went with Mr. H. Theobala and myself to Cobham to see the Australasian stallions, Trenton, Patron, Abereorn and Aurum, as well as rare old Baliol by Blair Athol, out of Don-casters dam. All these are great horses and Trenton has already continued his stud fame into this country by the victories of Longy, his two-year-old son, for whom 6.000 guineas was offered and refused the other day. Mr. Mackay, I think, likes Aurum the best of all the horses he saw, and certainly a more genuine performer was never bred For Aurum the Austrian government offered 5,500 guineas the other day, after sending four representatives to see him. It was all the money they had available for buying a horse, and Mrs. Langtry refused it. Colonel W. L. Simmons will take his horses to his farm in Kentucky and quit racing for the season of 1899 at the conclusion of the present Fair Grounds meeting. Colonel Simmons stable has been the biggest disappointment of the season. Last spring all hands thought the Colonel had one of the best handicap horses in the west in Ed Farrell. His three-year-old Ben Bramble was expected to hold his own against the best colts of his age in the west, while the highly bred two-year-old Private Nolan, a half brother to the mighty Flying Dutchman, was expected to carry the Colonels colors to victory in some of the valuable juvenile stakes. Things broke bad for the stable from the start, however, and none of the Simmons cracks has shown good form at the St. Louis meeting. Ed Farrell has developed into a sulker, while Ben Bramble has never been the same since his narrow escape from destruction by fire in the Btable yard blaze of last year. Private Nolan is the hardest kind of a colt to train, and his owner has never been able to get him up to a race. It dont pay to hurry a youngster of his age. Ho will probably be reserved for his three-year-old engagements. Macy is in training again. Charles Vestal has the horse at the old East St. Louis track and thinks he will be able to get the son of Hindoo to race quicker in the sand over there than he would over the Fair Grounds track. Macy is the horse Yestal purchased of brewer Schorr last spring for ,500. Vestal jhought he had a first-class racing tool, bat Macy broke down the first time he started in his new owners colors and had to be turned out of training. Macy was one of the best horses on the American turf last season, but he was also one of the most abused horses, having been raced all winter at New Orleans, after receiving a hard campaign on the western circuit and metropolitan tracks daring the regulation racing season. Experiment, one of the most famous of California brood mares, by M onarchist Cornflower, recently died, at E. J. Baldwins Santa Anita stud. She died of old age, being 23 years old. She produced Silver Cloud, winner of the American Derby in 1886, and also Alaho, dam of Rey el Santa Anita, winner of the American Derby ia 1894. She bad the distinction of being the dam and grandam of Derby winners. Her other produce were very useful racers, among them being Santa Zalida, Cordova and Rapido, the latter a good winner and stable companion of Volante, they being of the same age. "Did I ever tell you how the great Longstreet came mighty near being ruined by a brutal stable boy?" remarked George Taylor, the veteran jockey, recently. "Longstreet, yoa know, was the best horse I ever threw a leg over, and yours truly rode some pretty good ones in his day, notably Tristan, Hanover and their kind. I was the stable jockey for Dwyer Brothers the year Longatreet was a three-year-old. Oae morning the colt, while being galloped on the track, tried to run out, and bis rider walloped him over the head with the butt end of his whip. He struck the horse in his right eya and nearly knocked the optic out. After that Longstreet would stop running whenever anything ranged alongside of him and tiyto grab the nearest of his neighbors. Tbis trick of the colts cost xhis owners several big stakes, including the valuable Realization, which he would have won had he gone on about his business instead of trying to fight his horses when they came to him in the stretch. After Longstroot went blind entirely in his riRht eye he was a better horse in every way. " He never stopped to grab or fight his horses any more and became the best racehorse on iron in his four and five-year-old form."
