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LOCAL TURF GOSSIP. After Albert Simons had bid up Conundrum yesterday someone asked Pat Dunne why ha did not buy the colt. "I had him as a yearling," said Mr. Dunne. "Dr. Corrigan, his breeder, tried to give him to me. I told him I was as full of generosity and would give him back. At that time Conundrum weighed 600 pounds and was full of vermin. But winners come from all walks and conditions of the turf. Barney Schreiber is enamored of an extra fine bay colt by Sain, out of that fleet mare Miss Marion, and has decided to name -him after his farm Woodlands, the old sire having passed away. The farm is the Dutchmans pride, and he says, "No one but me will have any home-bred racehorses next year." Winkfield is steadily improving under ,Dr. Harveys hands and his skill is likely to be uted in the JDunne cqlorsagain this summor . ... . The selling race war, if such it can be called, still continues, and Albert Simons was again the central figure. Yesterday he bid up Conundrum, which won the second race, to ,500. This was an advance of ,700 over the entered selling price. Mr. Wishard, the trainer for John A. Drake, retained the horse by the customary bid of . In the closing race S. W. Curtis bid Peat, the winner, up to at which price Turney Bros, let the horse go. Albert Simons, who started Satin Coat in the race, put in a claim for Marshal Neil, securing Lim for ,580. J. C. Milam sold to Albert Simons the two-year-old colt Glendon, by Major Bichards Minnarette, just before the flrstrace yesterday for ,500. Had the colt won the race the purse would have gone to Simons. Tommy Knight was fined 5 by starter Dwyer for breaking through the barrier on Lady Matchless. Although the track yesterday was a quagmire it did not prevent the majority of the horses from running the first quarter of their respective races jn 26 seconds or better. Eva Russell stumbled at the post as the horses were about to break and unseated jockey J.Woods. She started to gallop around the track, but was caught before going a sixteenth and remounted. Tom Kiley, who severed his connection as trainer for Fizer and Co. lat week at St. Louis, was a visitor yesterday at the track. Blessed Damozel was yesterday purchased from, H. T. Griffin by Curtis and Hardy. Jockey Buchanan had his first mount yesterday since his return to the local tracks. The report that P. Dunne had secuxed first call on the jockey was erroneous, as S. C. Hildreth made satisfactory arrangements for his services and Barney Schreiber, whose colt Sigmund he rode yesterday, will have second call.
