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SARATOGA TURF GOSSIP. Saratoga, N. Y.,Augast 21. Alfred Featherstone has no intention whatever of quitting the turf. He has recently nominated some twenty high priced yearlings in stakes to be run in 1903 and 1904. P. Byan will sell his horses in training, Nones, Boxane and others, at Shoepshead Bay the first week in September. Wilsons career on the turf was indefinitely cut short today by the stewards after his bad ride on J. A. Drakes Charlie Grainger in the second race. J. E. Madden has sold a half interest in his recently acquired colt, Acefull, to Messrs. Whitney and Duryea and he will be their second string in the Futurity. Their main reliance, Irish Lad, is weighted at 130 pounds. "Butch" Thompsons will has been opened and the estate found to be worth 00,000. Eighty per cent was left to his wife and near relatives and the remainder to secure annuities to his old employees. Leo Swatts, "Kentuck" Kennedy, Ollie Burns, D. W. Martin and Al Smith. John A. Mackey, manager of Haggins Bancho Del PaBO, the most extensive breeding farm in the world, is here and states that, although he has contributed no less than 2,000 nominations to the Futurity, he has yet to witness the running of that event and that he means to be there this year. There was a report in circulation at the track that L. V. Bell meditated buying "Churchill Downs," but there was no truth in it whatever. Alex. Shields, who formerly owned Handicapper, bid on him after his victory in the last race today and got him back from "Bill" Daly, who had secured him in the same manner last fall at Morris Park. Wild Pirate was claimed for ,600 by W. T. Mc-Grath out of the fifth race today. The majority of the big layers in the ring had clean sheets over his defeat. Jockey Willie Ersbmehl, recently injured through a fall when riding Dr. Hughes, died at 2:15 p. m. today. A. J. Joyner, of late years public trainer, but closely identified with the racing interests in this country of the late Pierre Lorillard and known as handler of Perry Belmonts Ethelbert, has been en-gaged by Sidney Paget at a salary of 0,000 per year to handle his recently acquired string of yearlings and two-year-olds, whose value is several hundred thousand dollars. This is probably the largest fee ever paid to any trainer in this country. L. Jackson has at last been set down for incompetency by his employer, Green B. Morris. The latter"s superb colt, Sombrero, was ridden to victory today by T. Burns. Octoroon, A, Belmonts three-year-old filly, after many ossays, has at last emerged from the maiden ranks and will be retired forthwith to the stud.
