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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Jockey J. Martin rocte Right, and True to yic; tory in the fifth race at Brighton Wednesday for about an eighth of a mile without reins. It appears that when the field broke Right and True was one of the first to get moving, and as. he did so threw his head forward, jerking the reins put of the hands of Martin. The little rider was unable to grasp them again, but quickly grabbed the lead pad pockets of the saddle and held on while maintaining his position in the field of eighteen youngsters. Fortunately Right and True was in the first , flight, and did not meet with much interference. After the field had gone some distance he was bumped by another horse and threw his head backward. This enabled Martin to recover the reins, and he then commenced to ride with greater vigor than ever, landing the colt a winner in a drive from Mount Hope. Martin will not ride during the remainder of the meeting, having been suspended and fined 0 by Starter Fitzgerald, who said he misbehaved at the post on Bonnibert in the fourth race. Owing to the suspension of Martin he will be unable to ride Hurstbourne in the 0,000 Brighton Junior Stakes Saturday. Wonderly has been engaged for the race. Thad Huey, of Las Animas, Col., has purchased privately from Milton Young, McGrathiana Stud, the chestnut stallion Applegate, nine years old, by Buchanan Longshore, by Longfellow, and he, will be placed at the head of a thoroughbred stock farm, for which Mr. Huey and his Colorado partners are seeking material to establish in the far west. Applegate was a brilliant two-year-old, winning among other races the Great American, Zephyr and Hudson Stakes, earning over 0,000 at that age. He was also twice winner of the thoroughbred class at the New York horse show. Mr. Young also sold to the same party three yearling fillies, bred as follows : Bay filly, by Troubadour Bridget Keaton, by Hark away. Brown filly, by Requital Zulu, by Pizarro. Chestnut filly, by Lamplighter Elsina, by Strath-more. Applegate and the three fillies were shipped last week. John F. Schorr, son of the wealthy owner whose horses are racing at local tracks, has notified a friend that.he has won his suit against,Walls, Fargo and Co. for injuries to his horses. While F. W. Brode and seven other horses were en route from Salt Lake to San Francisco two years ago they were injured in an accident alleged to be due to carelessness. F. W. Brode was unable to race for some time, and his young owner sued for 1,000 damages. This amount was to cover the loss sustained from the majority of the string having been injured to some extent. Judge Beatty, who heard the case in the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, only allowed Schorr 00 damages, The decision is interesting to horsemen and others from the fact that the courts held that because Schorr obtained a low ratq for transportation by valuing the horses at 00 he could only recover that amount. A letter from Chicago to the Thoroughbred Record says : "Abe Frank has been turned out for the year and I hope it will do him good and that he may return to his two-year-old form. The horses in the Bennett stable, trained by that young and one of the most successful of all trainers Henry Mc-Daniel, have run as consistent as it is possible for horses to run, and the public are crazy to bet on anything the Bennett stable starts, as they are always well ridden by Coburn and, Helgesen. Mr. Bennett tells me that, he has .twenty-seven yearlings in training for next year, fifteen of his own breeding and twelve others that he bought by different sires in Kentucky." The yearlings purchased by Sydney Paget during the recent sales season are now quartered at W. C. Whitneys training establishment at the head of the Futurity course at Sheepshead Bay. There are forty-two in the lot, and they include the highest priced youngsters of the season. Two of them cost Mr. Paget 8,000 at the Haggin sale, and there are many others ..whose purchase prjce went into five figures. Altogether, the lot represents an outlay of money that means that Mr. Paget will attempt to take front rank among the big owners next season. It turns out that Gold Heels received two cuts on his off hind leg in the running of the Brighton Cup last Saturday. One of them is quite severe, and had begun tgflll when it was first noticed. ,They were supposed to have been;donQ,by Sun Shower at one of the turns and passed by unnoticed in the, excitement consequent ,upon the severe injuries to the other foot. One of them escaped the tendon by less than an inch. If lucky, Gold Heels is to be prepared for the Sartaoga Cup, to be run August 23. Reports from Walnut Hill Stud, where T. H, Stevens big string of yearlings, are .being , handled by trafner,iDriyer.l iBitftthe,efict that the full sister to the American Derby winner Wyeth bids fair to make a sensational two-year-old. At the first time of asking, she worked an eighth of a mile in lit seconds over the home country track, and she had up 125 pounds. She is a chestnut, and is larger and more fully developed than Wyeth was at the same age.
