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GOSSIP OF THE TURF Word comes from Nashville Tenn that the two yearold division at the local track is far above the average Just before the cold spell quarters were reeled off around 24 seconds and threeeighths in 36 with great regularity Among the more promising of the twoyearolds may be mentioned Frank Bruhnsbay colt by Ben dOr Venezuela also his bay colt by Ben dOr Sierra Madra W W Dar dens brown colt by First Mate The Cough also his chestnut colt by Faverdale Varnish and John J Greeners brown filly by Ornus Alveria M On her showing this youngster is probably the best at the track Scott P Harlan has a brace that for breeding and looks can hardly by surpassed One is a chestnut filly by Inspector B Pretense dam of the good race horse The Parader the other a brown filly by Himyar Viscontess This pair has been entered in all of the twoyearold stakes both at Harlem anil Hawthorne Twoyearolds from the Hendrie barn are bred in the purple Those in the Moore string have not been given much work as yet but are foreward enough to encourage the belief that they will be factors in the prominent stakes for horses of their age Those belonging to the Walters division are taking their work well Mr Hondries Lexington purchases are growing and are well thought of by Walters The youngsters in the Hayes barn have not been tried out sufficiently to get a lino on them They aro all good lookers however and as Hayes is one of the best conditioners in the country his string likely enough will furnish some surprises when they go to the post postW W H Jackson Jrs stable in charge of Henry Gerhardy has arrived at the track from Belle Meade and the horses twentytwo in number are doing well A report has been sent out from Frisco to the effect that jockey Bullman will go to New Orleans to ride Lord Quex in the Crescent City Derby This however is not correct Albert Simons the owner of Lord Quex says that he had never as much as given Bullman a thought in connection with his colt Winkfield has for some time been engaged to ride Lord Quex in the big New Orleans event Simons also expects to have the Dunne jockey ride his colt in the AmericauDerby in the event that he starts in the wests premier race provided Mr Dunne should not have a starter Lord Quex is go ¬ ing along in good form According to reports from Memphis Tenn there willbe no consolidation of the equine forces of John W Schorr William C Schulte and Senator J S OBrien this year J W Schorr it is said will start the season in full charge of his horses and not even his son J F Schorr will be financially interested in their welfare William C Schulte president of the Louisville Jockey Club who was reported to have formed the alliance with J W Schorr and OBrien is credited with saying that a very small partnership existed between them and while at Montgomery Park last week looked at Flora Pomona which alone represents the posses ¬ sions of the firm of J W Schorr Co Each of the thirtyseven remaining horses in the barn is owned outright by J W Schorr February 17 all the horses in charge of J F Schorr in California will be sold The lot embraces Joe Frey F W Erode Timemaker and twelve others J W Schorr made an offer of 5000 to Senator OBrien for a twoyear old filly by Flying Dutchman Lady of the Lake which was declined William C Whitney appears to be having unusu ¬ ally hard luck with his stable of racing thorough ¬ breds this winter With Nasturtium his Derby candidate ailing in England comes the unwelcome news that the crack colt Goldsmith is suffering from what is said to be lung trouble at Mr Whit ¬ neys Long Island farm Dr William Shepard of New York says the colt has a high fever and coughs continually but that in all probability ho will re ¬ cover Goldsmith was such a consistent performer last year that it was predicted by many turfmen that he would develop into a great threeyearold There was a time when Goldsmith was considered a better race horse than Nasturtium and in some quarters it was believed that he would be sent to England instead of the latter Not long ago King Hanover was stricken with an illness that was epi ¬ demic at Mr Whitneys stables but he is well now and will be able to fill his engagements Mr Whit ¬ ney has lost two promising twoyearolds through illness this winter but his other thoroughbreds notably Yankee and Endurance by Right have es ¬ caped Now York Sun Owners of some of the prominent stables which will confine their racing almost entirely to the west this season are snapping up all the good horses that aro showing at New Orleans Several days ago M Barrett acting for E J Shipsoy transferred Mynheer to F G Altman the consideration being something like 2500 A horse that shows any kind of form cannot bo touched for less than this amount The fact that H Robinson refused 4000 for Death shows what a demand there is for good material J McGrath who is wintering a small but select stable at the Crescent City was approached some CONTINUED ON FOCETII 1AQE GOSSIP OF THE TURF v Continued from First Page days ago by Chicago men and asked to put a s price on Lamp OLee Ordinarily Lamp OLee is a i Ahorse which could be purchased in the east for i something like 2500 or 3000 Around Bennings y last fall he could give a horse like Death ten or fif 1 teen pounds With the inflated values which the v demand has created Lamp OLee is a 5000 horse IThe chances are however that ho too will change hands in a few days Word comes from Memphis Tenn that trainer IDharles Hughes who propped Lieutenant Gibson and other horses for Charles Head Smith of Chi cago was there last week in company with Henry Zeigior of Cincinnati presumably to buy horses but Tiad left without making a purchase Sam Hildreth had all hia horses unclothed for Charles Sughes and Henry Zeigler A grander lot of horses j iall of which are the picture of health it would be behard hard to see from any stable Hughes asked Hildreth to price McChesney The reply was 20000 and added his owner it is no use your offering me a xcent less McChesney has filled out finely and has grand quarters on him In height he does not ii appear to have grown much since a twoyearold but that may be owing to his general growth Hil i Ireth says he is 200 pounds heavier than when he bought him
