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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. An eastern paper, commenting on jockey Bheas temporary suspension last Wednesday at Bennings, has this to say: "The incident of the day outside the racing was the suspension of jockey Shea for the balance of the week. Shea rode Flying Buttress in the second race. The last time Flying Buttress ran he showed a lot of speed and ran a vsry fair race. He was plunged upon today and just managod to finish inside the money. Colonel Bill, the secondchoice, was the winner. Colonel Bills last race was very bad. Consequently Flying Buttress was thought good enough to hold everything safe. Colonel Bill had his spaed with him today, and little Shea, in his anxiety to close ground, bungled a little, and so brought down upon his head the wrath of the stewards. After the race the stewards called Tom Healey into the stand and asked him what he thought of the ride. I bet on the colt, said Healey, and Im satisfied the boy did the best he could. "Bhea was then called up and he said he did his best. The stewards thereupon decided to suspend Shoa for the remainder of the week. The decision was receivec with derision by people who understood the facts in the case. It is a matter of record, to bo proven by the sheets of the layers, that Tom Healey had one of his largest betB of the meeting on Flying Buttress. The stewards by suspending Shea for a bad ride intimate that the boy did not try to win. In .view of the fact that Healey had a very swell bet down, that he advised all his friends to bet, and that men close to him did actually bat on the colt, makes the decision of the stewards appear far fetched. If the boy did not ride an artistic finieh it was because he could not. There was certainly nothing criminal. Shea has only blossomed as a rider within the last month or so; So far aa bad rides are concerned, Bedfern and Cochran have put up some remarkable exhibitions and have escaped official notice." Captain B. H. Bice has been meeting with ill luck recently. His saloon at Verner, Ark., was burned on November 18. He has not done well since he took Wax Taper east last May. He came up the line with a strong and moat expensive stable. Fred Hesaig, a grand looking sou of Hanover, went wrong. Curd Gillock, who was a good two-year-old, became uo account. Bendora, more than an average two-year-old, was not right until late in the season. Rochester, Hengist and other expensive horses, did not earn their salt. Probably the Captains manager did not run up to form, but it was a bad season for him, even if Wax Taper was one of the best handicap horses of the year. The San Francisco Examiner of November 19, in speaking of "Dick" Dwyers work with the flag the first day he started at Oakland has this to say: " Dick Dwyer did his first starting at the Oakland track yesterday and he had some bad luck at the very beginning. The initial send-off waa not a good one, but all the others were very nearly perfect. It is a little early in the season, perhaps, to be boastful, but there are few who will dispute the statement that California has now the two best starters in America working here. If mon like Dwyor and Holtman were to manipulate the gate at New York thore would be fewer criticisms of the no recall system and less demand for its abolishment." J. Naglee Burk, says the San Francisco Chronicle, will retire permanently from the turf. The yearlings and two and threo-yoar-olds were sold last Thursday at the Occidental Horse Exchange. The stallions and brood mares will go under the hammer next Tuesday,
