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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Multimillionaire J. B. Haggin, owner of Elmen dorf Stud, and the most extensive breeder of thoroughbred horses in the world, has just closed a deal for 0,000 by which he becomes the owner of the historic Kentucky Association racetrack, with it securing sixty-one and nine-tenths acres of ground in the city limits of Lexington, with all its improvements and appurtenances, the iron and stone grand stand and some twenty stables, including stalling room for 350 horses. The deal is completed, save the turning over of the money to owner Charles Green, of St. Louis, which will be done as soon as the title to the property is. pronounced good. Mr. Haggin is to assume possession of the property at once, as Lyne and Ferris are, it is understood, willing to forfeit the lease which thoy now have on the grounds, and which will expire in March, 1904. It is understood that Mr. Haggin will use the property as a private training grounds, breaking all his yearlings there, instead of shipping them to Long Branch and other eastern racing grounds. He will remodel the grounds, fence off the inside track for use in bad weather and sod down the center field in blue grass. It may be that Haggin intends to revive racing there, but this is doubted. The Kentucky Association track was founded in 1826. The last meeting was a private venture in the fall of 1898. Longfellow, Hindoo, Luke Blackburn, Tom Bowling and other old-time stars first appeared over the Kentucky Association course and a host of prominent Kentucky statesmen were identified with it in its early days. It is the second oldest racetrack in America. R. H. McC. Potter has decided to give up breeding thoroughbreds, and all the stock now at his Request stud will be offered for sale by the Fasig-Tipton Company early in October. Mr. Potter has at the stud Buck Massie, Flambeau and two other sires, about forty brood mares and a number of weanlings and yearlings, all of which will go under the hammer. Mr. Potter is a business man, who took up the breeding idea as a matter of pastime, but finds that it requires more of his time than he and has decided, for can spare from his business this reason, to sell out. Following his annual custom of several seasons past, Dr. A. W. McAlester of Columbia, Mo., will sell a number of high brod yearlings in this city, the sale taking place in the paddock at Harlem racetrack, Tuesday, September 2, at 12:50 p. m. These youngsters are by the imported stallions Wood Moss and Joe Norwood, and that hero of many fast and bitterly contested races, Guido. They will arrive here this morning and be on inspection at Stable S, Hawthorne, until the day of sale. They aro the best looking band Dr. McAlester has yet sent to the sales ring and are headed by a half-brother to the sterling colt Bragg. The list to be offered is as follows: Bay colt, by Wood Moss Cantatrice dam of Bragg. Bay colt, by Wood Moss Miss Bowling dam of Sidbow. Bay colt, by Wood Moss Gold Bangle, by Aris-tides. Chestnut filly, by Wood Moss Rose Higby, by Virgil. Bay colt, by Guido Tipster, by Rebel. Bay filly, by Wood Moss Evelyn, by Claudius. Chestnut filly, by Wood Moss Boetitia dam of Satan. Bay filly, by Wood Moss Rosiddie, by Siddartha. Bay filly, by Wood Moss Prue Penniston, by Siddartha. Bay tilly, by Wood Moss Countess Irene, by Linden. , Bay colt, by Joe Norwood Lady Nell dam of Our Nellie. A dispatch from London, Friday , said: "W. C. Whitney, of New York, has founded the Beresford Trust Company, for the benefit of persons connected with the turf who are in need of assistance. "Todays issue of the Racing Calendar announced the benefaction as follows: " Mr. Whitney, of New York, out of respect for the memory of Lord William Beresford, with whom he was associated in the successes of Volodyovski and other horses, has most generously handed to trustees 400 preferred shares of the American Smelting and Refining Company, of New York, which are now yielding an income of about 800. Mr. Whitneys original intention was to confine the benefaction to the value of the Derby Stakes won by Volodyovski in 1901, but he has now decided to increase it to the above sum, in the hope that it may form a nucleus of a more important charity. The trustees are Lord Marcus Beresford, Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, Sir Edward Colebrooke and Sir Daniel Cooper, and the object of the trust, which is to be called the Beresford Trust, is to benefit persons connected with the turf who may have become reduced in circumstances, when their cases have been investigated and found deserving of assistance. The trustees propose to meet twice a year at Newmarket to consider applications for assistance. "
