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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. There is every indication that Frederick Gebhard will play a prominent part in racing affairs next year. Mr. Gebhard, whose racing interests have been confined almost exclusively to stoeplechasing for tho last few years, has been a liberal buyer of yearlings this season. He has recently made arrangements whereby George Hill will train the a oo training, which include already been placediin IMr. Hills charge. Nine yearlingswill also be turned over to Mr. Hill-in-the near future to receive"their early education in a racing way, and with a fair share of luck the Gebhard stable may be expected to gather some of the turf plums in coming seasons. fiThe London Sportsman of June 2 gives a table of the principal? English sires whose get up from March 17 to June 1 have won 1,500 or upward. Persimmon leads, with 10,642, and then in order follow; Carbine, 9,385; St7 Simon7 3,752 ; Hampton, 3,693; Isinglass, 2,918; Boyal Sovereign, 3,655 ; Ayrshire, 2,939; Matchmaker, 2,738; St. Serf, 2,535; Sheen, 2,488; St. Frusquin, 2,123; Freemason, 1,970; Common, 1,941; Melton, 1,663: Prisoner, 1,625; Juggler, 1,729, Bend Or, 1,501. , Owing to the death of Edward Bell, former Park Commissioner, the horses of his brother, Louis V. Bell, will for the "remainder of the season run in the name of his trainer, James McCormick. During the season of 1901 Mr. Bells horses ran in McCormicks name on account of the death of his mother, which occurred early in the year, and it was as McCormicks entry that Alcedo won the Suburban Handicap. So far this season the horses have raced in the name and colors of Mr. Bell, and. he recently engaged the Eervices of Bice, the most promising of the apprentice riders now before the eastern race-going public. A dispatch from Lexington. July 7, says : "The first yearling tried out this year in Kentucky was set down for a quarter at the association track here today, it being the bay colt Merry Pioneer, the half-brother to George C. Bennetts crack Aladdin. He worked a quarter in 241 seconds, going the first eighth in 12 seconds. Merry Pioneer belongs to Dan OBrien, who bought him for ,000 at the recent Melbourne Stud sale in New York, he being one of the colts that were in the wreck on the Long Island Bailroad, and sold cheap on that account. So far he has shown no signs in his work of being in any way hurt.
