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SARATOGA "GOSSIP. Saratoga, N. Y., August 18. It was remarked today that the Farrell-Welch combination failed to put up Shaw, their regular jockey, on The Musketeer and Blues. His peculiar looking ride on Bon-nibert in the Delaware Handicap, won by Chuctan-unda last Saturday, it is rumored, is still under investigation by the stewards. E. K. Wheeler started his newly -acquired KingstonCatherine II. colt, Orloff, in the first race today and won him out ten times over. David Johnson lost a 0,000 wager today on Blues, on which he accepted 1 to 8. Blues was supposed to be a cartainty today, but the story tonight is that he has turned sore and sulky and will not work. The handicapper allotted Blues 130 pounds in the Citizens and Merchants Handicap to be run tomorrow, yet today Hun-tressa beat him when nearly everybody at the track thought the race a foregone conclusion and most of the betting was on the place horses. Bullman was suspended for one day and fined 0 for misbehavior at the post in the race won by The Musketeer, in which that horse made the best time on record over a track called circular, but which has a "chiite." The race was run in 1:25. The best previous time was made by Chuctanunda, on Thursday last, in 1:25, but some years ago Clifford ran the distance in the same time over the Sheepshead Bay course. Fifteen acres of land near the course here has been purchased by Mr. Whitney and will be devoted to the erection of stables sufficient to accommodate some 600 yearlings, the idea being that at least twice that number will be in future years sold here, the success of Charles Reeds yearling sale, as well as of Clarence Mackays sale, encouraging the asso" ciation in this belief. Although money enough has been made at this meeting to declare a forty per cent dividend on the capital stock, only six per cent will be paid to stockholders, the remainder going for improvements. Much interest is felt in tomorrows two-year-old race in which John A. Drakes Savablo will meet Flying Prince, Merry Reel, which Madden declares will win the Futurity, and Blue Eibbon, the colt which close observers say was badly hamperad by Irish Lad in the last furlong of the Saratoga Special. The rider of Baron Pepper in todays race claimed to the stewards that Burns, on Douro, had ridden him so close to the rail all the way through the stretch as to prevent him from turning, but the stewards dismissed the claim. In this race Mike Dwyer had 7,500 on Ethics, and the horse might have won but for coming out wide on the home turn.
