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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Fervor, James Arthur"s six-year-old son of Fonso and Bettie Blaise, is dead at Montgomery Park. Fervor was buried inside the park in-closure. and his grave marks the solitary resting place of a race horse at the track which has ~ served as a winter home for many famous _. thoroughbreds during the past twenty years. I Fervor was a half-brother to Bannockburn. and 1 won many races for his owner, including the St. J Patricks Handicap at New Orleans in 1898, l when a "killing" was made by secretly prepar- 1 ing the horse at Memphis and shipping him J south before the race. i High Order and Prince of Melbourne are the l only star two-year-olds of last season that have not yet made a public appearance. If the accounts of the Order colts work are correct, he c is all right. The blind splint under the left 1 foreknee, which gave him so much trouble last j year, has not bothered him this season. He has done whatever work Peter Wimmer has called upon him to do without the least trouble, and £ will probably train on nicely. Prince of Melbourne has grown some since last season, but he has been a bit backward. Mr. Beard hopes j to have him ready for the Derby. Diamond Jubilee, winner of the English , Derby, was ridden by the little featherweight ] Harry Jones, the stable lad who alone can man- j age him. He ran in the Derby as tamely as a i sheep, though he lost two valuable races for the I Prince earlier in his career, when the crack ] jockey Morny Cannon was up. Jones appears to take no special care to humor this ordinarily fractious animal, who has nearly killed two other stable lads, but the instant Jones puts his | legs across him the horse is as quiet as a lamb I and runs to his last ounce. "Tod" Sloan, who finished fourth on Dreyfus Solon in the Grand Prix du Jockey Club on Sunday last, was fined 500 francs 00 for disobedience to the starter before the big race. Prior to that he had ridden two races, but after the penalty was imposed he refused to put his foot in a stirrup for the remainder of the day. Mr. Albert Simons has purchased from Mr. John E. Madden the three two-year olds, Luerana, Beau Gallant and Regea. the first named a winner and a good filly. Mr. Simons has also purchased the three-year-old bay colt Scales, by The Bard — Equipoise, from Mr. C. F. Hill. These horses will all be campaigned in the west. Mr. F. G. Sullivan, Secretary of the Metropolitan Turf Association, ha6 sent out the official announcement that hereafter bets will not be declared off under any circumstances. All bets made after the numbers have been posted on the official bulletin board will stand. — Spirit of the Times. President Thomas H. Williams of the California Jockey Club, who had promised immunity to Jockey Hennessy for testifying in the Lynch-Piggott-Martin scandal, has kept his promise, and Hennessy has been reinstated.
