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LOCAL TURF GOSSIP. J. Waldner, who is the silent partner in the firm of P. J. Gorman and Co., sold out his interest yesterday to Mr. Gorman, and hereafter Jack Battlin, Ciales, Stuyve, Erema, and all others which have raced in the name of P. J. Gorman and Co., will be entered without the Co. Jockoy D. Gilmore left last night for Buffalo to ride at the mooting which is now in progress at Ft. Erie. Very few stables intend going east, and the majority of horses which have sported silk at Washington Park will be raced at Hawthorne and Harlem. Gold Bell and Watkins Overton, which finished first and second in the Lake View Handicap, were thought not to have a chance by their owners on account of the heavy going. They were both started as an experiment with a view of getting a line on their mud running ability. Francis Trevelyan, presiding judge of Hawthorne, arrived yesterday from New York and wae busy greeting friends in the afternoon at Washington Park. There was a rumor before the Wheeler Handicap was run that S. C. Hildreth had promised jockey Buchanan ,000 if he brought in Lucien Appleby winner of the race. Buchanan rode a hard race, bnt,his recent illness has evidently weakened him for he allowed the colt to stumble when on even terms with Flying Torpedo in the last seventy yards. This, in all probability, cost the horse the verdict.
