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GOSSIP OE" THE TURF. Trainer Crit Davis, who handleB the Pepper stable, also trains W. L. Simmons Wagner colt, Colonel Bill. This brother in blood to imp has improved greatly in the laat few weeks, and he defeated Anak, Trump, Bose of May, Dewey and others in the mud in great fashion. Dewey got away badly in this race, and his defeat moved some of the critics ? to voice their belief that there wbb "a nigger in the wood pile" somewhere in the race. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Winaie OConnor thinks they are not treating him right, out on the coast. A San Francisco paper quotes him as saying: "It seems that somebody runB into about everything I ride, and I am getting very tired of it. I try to ride fair, but if I get jostled much more I will have to turn loose and jostle back to protect myself. I hate to think that any of the jockeys have it in for me, but it looks very queer that I should be knocked about in nearly every race I ride." Col. W. S. Barnes, one of the moBt famous turfmen in the weBt, is seriously, if not dangerously, ill at his home in Lexington, Ey. During tho summer at Saratoga his ailment, which has gradually grown worse during the past few years, took a serious turn, and it was several months before he could make tjhe trip home. Recently he became afllictedjwith chills , which have grown gradually worse.
