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GOSSIP OF THE TURF TURFOf Of the horses now located at Clinton Park Little Bock and eligible to the Arkansas Derby Hainault a brown colt by St Carlo Libbertiflibbet has done the best work having worked a mile with weight up in 1 141 which is excellent time over this track trackOwners Owners and trainers there think that if Hildreth should send his 10000 beauty McChesnoy to com ¬ pete for the Derby he will have to be right on edge to beat Hainault Huntressa also a candidate for the Arkansas Derby has not yet received her fast work for the race but has been given plenty of light work and does all that has been asked of her in handy fashion Sho looks well and has grown considerably considerablyCapt Capt R R Rice had his Derby candidate Var ¬ ner and that great handicap horse Wax Taper which defeated some of the best horses in the east last year on the track Tuesday Varner had to be pulled to Wax Taper in their work showing that the great horse is not near himself as yet The best work and fastest time has been done by Little Chico which worked five furlongs in 1011 which would indicate that the track is in much bettor condition and faster than in former years yearsRichard Richard Williams had out a bunch of Schreibere twoyearolds last Monday the finest among them being a brown colt by Sain and a half brother to Otis Dewey and Schwalbo together Dowey easily outworked the other two but Williams is very sweet on Otis and says that when they go to the races Otis will just as easily turn the tables Peaceful Maximus Lunar Sweet Dream and Or ¬ leans of the older division have been given plenty of work and will be ready to go to the post when the bell taps on the first day of the meeting Mon ¬ day March 24 24Some Some of the owners who will arrive the last of tho week are John F Schorr George C Bennett W V Finn J U Strode Ed Trotter McDaniels Co Dan LaMasney R N Vestal Gus Lanka Ownbey Hatfield James Arthur W H Laird C C McCaff erty Charles Rowe W W Lyle and Tom Nepper P Dunne arrived at Memphis from Shreveport last Wednesday and had a busy morning with his horses Silurian and Henry Zitt were sent a mile in 1 46 with Silurian having the better of the argu ¬ ment Emathion and Menmon Dunnes American Derby candidates went five furlongs in 1 04 Mem non tired badly at the finish On the strength of a mile in 1 451 which Flora Pomona accomplished with plenty in reserve it is likely that sho will be sent to Little Rock to represent John W Schorr in the Arkansas Derby Charles W Meyer from the same stable was rated six furlongs in 1 18 Alana Dale was out on tho track for the first time in sev ¬ eral days but only breezed breezedBallet Ballet one of the greatest brood mares in Amer ¬ ica is dead at the home of her owner George H Clay proprietor of Balgowan Stud She was chlor ¬ oformed by the veterinary Robert Bryan who at ¬ tended Hanover in his last hours Ballet was 31 years old one year older than was Pocahontas the greatest of all brood mares at the time of her death Sho was the dam of Modesty Bluegrass Belle Eliz ¬ abeth L Peg Woflington Busted etc Her prod ¬ uce won over 100600 on tho turf in eightyfive races Lexington veterinary surgeons have just decided that W C Whitneys great mare Thora will not be able to breed again Mr Whitney bought her in 1897 from Charles Reed of Fairview Stud Tennessee for 12500 Since she has been in Mr Whitneys possession sho has never borne a foal although she has been bred to the best stallions in tho country Gondola the aged and wonderful brood mare dam of Senorita the queen of tho turf in her day by Virgil and owned by Col W S Barnes dropped a brown colt by Prince of Monaco at the Mel ¬ bourne Stud last Sunday Tho coft is of immense sico has four white feet and is considered the larg ¬ est foal over dropped at Melbourne which is re ¬ garded as wonderful because Gondola is now 21 years of age
