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cm,,"" ;" GOSSIP OF THE TURF. ai ars W who will wiald tho flag Mr. C. J. Fitzgerald, t to at the coming Crescent City Jockey Club meet- b by ing has arrived at New Orleans. Since the t; close of the MorriB Park meeting Mr. Fitzgerald has paid bnt little attention to the rnnners. fr On the contrary, he has devoted all his time to q hunting game in the wild countries and has met with excellent success. Last fall Mr. Fits- j gerald was unfortunate enough to contract an illness which came very near disabling him for the entire winter. This fall his health has been t excellent and he looks for excellent sport at the forthcoming meeting. j An eastern paper says that Swamplands, owned by W. C. Daly, who won at odds of 60 to 1 last Saturday at Benninge, is out of Lucky Clover. "Vic" Hollar Bays that two years ago when he went down to the farm where Lucky J Clover was located the person in charge in-formed him that the mare had been barren that year. No one was more amazid than Hollar, therefore, whea Swamplands, who is by Flatlands Lucky Clover, made his appearance on the turf this year. Either Hollar wa3 deceived by his represtntativea on the farm or else the colt had been falsely registered. In a dispatch of November 24 from Dallas, Tex., to the New Orleans Picayune Hugo Kane, the well-known turfman, says: "You may say for me that neithor I nor any of tho recognized horse racing Eupportors of Dallas are ic the movement to start winter racing with outlawed horses at the tracks in opposition to Now Orleans. The Dallas tracke and nearly all the Texas horses are now in good standing with tho Western Jockey Club, and expact to romtin ao. I, nor my friends, know nothing cf the personnel of the promoter of a wintur meeting at Dallas. " Myself and other turf patrons ars contemplating giving a spring mssting in Dallas in April next, but if we do it will be undor tho auspices of the Western Jockey Club. We expect " to attend the coming winter meeting at New Orleans, and hope it will be a successful one." A dispatch from New York of Nov. 25 says that John Huggins will roturn to England after XJhristmas. Ha is expected to arrive on the Minneapolis Friday in company with John Mcc-key. He may bring three of Mr. Whitneys horses that raced in England last soasoa. Tho3 ai ars W t to b by t; fr q j t j J " " Kilmarnock, Elizebeth M. and Elkhorn. i Mr. Huggins has made arrangements to return Heath House and train all tho horses loaasd Mr. Whitney from Lady Meux. He will also take a Derby candidate from this side, oither Nasturtium or Goldsmith, as these are the only two in Mr. Whitneys stable that are eligible, owing to a technicality in the registration of the others. Which of the two star youngsters Huggins will take is not known, but the proba-bilitiss are thr.t it will bp Qo3d?-niibt ii i9 a-cepts the advice of bis friends who have seen the two perform. Kilmarnock, Elizabeth M. and Elkhorn will rnco here n?xt year and will be trained by John W. Rogers. A Cincinnati paper says that Bome Hespaso haB returned to that city after a visit to Louisville and Lexington in quest of racing material. At Louisville he looked at a couple of year-lings, one of which had gotten out of the maiden class at tho racea during the recent fair. He was not pleased with them and made no purchase. At Lexington he closed negotiations with J. Wili Foreytha and William Wallace for absoluts ownership of the two-year-old colt Bellas Commoner, by Th Commoner-Battle Belle. The colt has bean shipred from Lexington and is now at Latonia with the Kespass strict;, which ia to ba removed about Dscamber 1 to the farm which Mr. Beepass leased laBt week near Glendale. Among the jockeyB that are already at hand for the meeting at New Orleans, which begins today, are Coburn, Landry, Dale, Vandnsen, Gormley, Otis, Lyne, Wedderatrand, T. Walsh, Gilmore, Blake, T. OBrien, Minder, A. Weber, Harsh-berger, McCann, B. Steele, Bice, Bassinger, Davisson and WilkerBon. Winkfleld and Domin-" ick, two of the stars in the west this year, will both be on hand today, as each has accepted an engagement in the Inaugural Handicap. Wink-1 field is to ride George Arnold, which will prob-5 ably be favorite in the race, and Dominick has been engaged to pilot one of Steve L Homme- diauapair. Wondorly, Cochran, H. MichaelB and probably others will go to New Orleans from Bennings as soon as. the Washington mest-t incr closes.
