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GOSSIP OF THE TURF We often hear of the uncertainty in buying thoroughbreds said a trainer and cases without Dumber coulcj be cited where for a small sum world beaters have been bought as yearlings Running out on the Coast now is a fair sample of this propo ¬ sition The horse in question is owned by Green B Morris and is called Sombrero When he was brought into the sale ring at the annual disposal of yearlings from the Haggin ranch no one would make a bid for him Mr Haggin turning to Mor ¬ ris who had paid up in the thousands for some of the others put under the hammer said You can have that one if you will take him Green GreenThe The colt was accepted and he was sent to the Morris barn In the same lot were Cunard Golden Cottage and other supposedly good yearlings Last year Morris said that he would rather have the gift horse than any he bought at the same time And the way Sombrero has performed it looks as if he was a better horse than any of the o hers He started thirteen times in the east and was only out ¬ side the money twice Among his wins was the otherfeSr Atlantic Stakes and hewas placed in three other feSr s fnicrsenf irsinv atei i C sjjf ryj TtTch events being beaten by such good ones as En ¬ durance by Right and Leonora Loring LoringSince Since he has been out on the coast he has shown evidence of being as good a threeyearold if not better than in his twoyearold form In his last race he did the mile in 1 39t which is a remarkable record for such a young threeyearold Cunard is I am told a hopeless cripple so you see that Mor ¬ ris had a streak of luck when he got Sombrero Daily America I George H Whitney the noted Kentuckian breed ¬ er of Banastar Montgomery and other good race horses and who recently built a fortystall brick stable at Sheepshead Bay has formed a partner ¬ ship with George E Perrin and the latter will go to New York next week and handle harness horses for the rich men Frank Jones will train the run ¬ ners while Perrin will show and sell the roadsters and saddlers Nasturtium the Derby colt whose condition was the cause of some uneasiness to W C Whitney and his trainer John Huggins is now much better a cablegram to that effect having been received by Huggins The trainer will leave New York for Eng ¬ land on the Minnehaha which sails tomorrow1 tomorrow1Goldseoker Goldseoker one of W C Whitneys threeyear olds was recently seized with catarrhal fever which has been epidemic in the stables at West bury L I Others in the big string of thorough ¬ breds are ill also All the racers fit to be moved will Boon be transferred to the stables at the Sheepshead Bay course which are being made ready for occupancy The change will not how ¬ ever be made until the weather is settled settledPatrick Patrick Kcenan who is visiting Now Orleans with David Gideon was so impressed with Old Foxs showing in a steeplechase that he suggested to those who control the horse they take him east this spring with the idea of bidding for some of the rich prizes which are offered in that part of the country for the jumpers Mr Keenan knows full well the difference between the regulation steeple ¬ chase course and the socalled obstacles negotiated at New Orleans but he argues that he believes and he has had a lot of experience that this horse with the proper schooling would make a firstclass cross country performer Jockey Winnie OConnor has quarreled with Green B Morris and left the veteran trainers employment OConnors contract called for 1200 per month for five montns Trouble grew out of OConnors ride on Janice the other day The mare should have won a stake worth 1200 but Winnie grew careless at the end and Jackson on Eonic slipped through on the rail and got the money If orris was angry and rated OConnor soundly for being so careless Janice was carded again Jan ¬ uary 28 and carried 105 pounds Morris says he did not think OConnor could do the weight and en ¬ gaged Jackson to ride This piqued Winnie who was able to ride at 105 and he gave Morris notice that their relations were at an end Interest is already beginning to manifest itself in the Crescent City Derby although it will not be run for many weeks yet With the possible exception of Little Scout who for some unknown reason was not among Mr George Bennetts nominations for the stake Lord Quex from the Simons barn holds all the other threeyearolds which have raced there safe But Albert Simons will not have a walkover for the stake St Tammany a big son of St Blaise which while he showed nothing sensational as a twoyearold gave evidence of ability to handle weight and go a route is being tuned up at the New Orleans Fair Grounds for this big local event The owner of Lord Quex has however most to fear from Memphis At least one colt which showed to be a good race horse last season will be brought from Memphis to have a go for the rich prize Aladdin a colt which Mr Bennett bought afcj CM cago late last summer and which won numerous races for the Memphis turfman is to be given a special preparation or the Crescent City Derby Reports from Memphis are to the effect that Alad ¬ din has developed into a grand looking colt the best looker there in fact and if he has even re ¬ tained his twoyearold form he will bo hard to beat in this Derby One thing is certain Trainer McDauiels will have him as fit as a horse can be made John W Schorr has signed Jockey Minder now riding at New Orleans to assist in the stables rid ¬ ing for the next two years Minder is the son of a New York tailor and can ride at 95 pounds W W Lyles who had a contract on Minders services ar ¬ rived at Memphis yesterday from New Orleans and formally turned over his contract to Schorr Mind ¬ er was given the preference over thirty applicants and was recommended by Presiding Judge James H Rees In speaking about doping of horses the Ney Orleans Picayune of January 27 has this to say Horses like men cannot always be judged by their looks If one half the complaints that come to this office of the use or abuse of drugs are well based it means the need of a shakeup in the pad ¬ dock or among those detailed by the local manage ¬ ment to look after this end of preliminary prepara ¬ tions In the old days or rather the early days of doping the charge was provided just before post time and with instruments that as a rule left their marks Later came improvements and prescrip ¬ tions galore and with it a corresponding increase in the difficulties of those seeking to prevent the violation of the rule of racing which refers to arti ¬ ficial stimulants The wisdom of a car driver could point out many of the cases that have been furn ¬ ished within the last month Horses have come on the track the next thing to crazy Sides aglow eyeballs protruding heads carried unnaturally high speed in the early stages away beyond the regular notch and a dozen other indications have been hurled at the crowd without action of any sort While admitting the difficulty of actually seeing the doge administered the fact remains that some of the offenders should have been detected There are a hundred men scattered about the ground that can tell the instant they see a horse if the inspiration has been used Some of these cases should certainly have been detected in the paddock Again tales are heard of heavy shoos one day and the regulation plates the next For this later method of cheating for that is what it is there is no excuse A man must more than look wise he must be wise Here is a suggestion Give a little more attention to these two details and perhaps form will become a little more con ¬ sistent
