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GOSSIP OF THE TCRF. Sandringham, the horse lately imported from England by John £. Madden, is resting at the American Horse Exchange before continuing his journey to Hamburg Farm, Ky. Apart from the fact that this horse formerly belonged to the Prince of Wales, his relationship to the Derby winners. Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee, makes him a valuable addition to the sires in the country. He is a big. heavy topped brown horse with black points and stands fully 16.3 hands high. He is so compactly built that standing a little way from him he does not give the idea of being so large. He has plenty of bone, without any useless timber, nice flat legB and short joints. A beautifully sloping shoulder, a back capable of packing any weight and quarters which are a credit to St. Simon are most noticeable. As a yearling he split his pastern, and. though he was trained, he never started in a race — New York Herald. Mr. Charles H. Smith has been truly unfortunate in having to suffer the loss of His Excellency and the enforced retirement of Lieutenant Gibson and Donald Bain, ami is justly entitled to the sympathy that is extended to him from all quarter.-. But Mr. Smith is too truly a thoroughbred sportsman to quit because mischances such as all horse owners have to endure at times have befallen him. There are other good horses to be had and he will no doubt acquire them in time. Garry Hermann is in line of promise for next years American Derby and that is something in the way of con-solatiou and hopefulness. When the bugle blew for the tirst race one would think that Master of the Foxhounds Bratton had unleashed his pack of sixty dogs OOMTIH0EU ON BBOCiMD PAGB, GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from Fir6t Page. on the track. It was a swell lot of St. Bernards. Miss Whitney, who awards bench show medals , to dogs of that breed, should have taken Judge , Murphys position in the stand. As they passed 1 the clubhouse turn the cats ran hissing up the , fences, and their tails grew thick as Fred Cooks 1 j bankroll. Iris was the best of the bunch and I won handily, with the entire pack driving after . her for feed money. The ride that Corner gave Eleanor Holmes was enough to get him shot. . A match race between Lee Bruno and Aunt Mary, four-mile heats, welter weight, with Corner and R. Smith up, would be a card for your life.— St. Louis Republic.
