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GOSSIP OP THE TURF. Alex Shields, who has campaigned Advance Guard for several seasons, will have a big string to race on the Canadian and metropolitan circuits next year. During the past few months he has secured a large number of yearlings, and they will bo trained at his place in Jersey. Hero Mr. Shields has a fine three-quarter mile track, and he intends to spend considerable money in the improvement of the course. Mr. Shields has not definitely decided on his plans for the winter, but if he races any horses he will ship them to California. Advance Guard will again head the Carruthers and Shields stable next season. Zoroaster, who ran such a swell race in the Annual Champion Stake, will also be ono of tho star performers. A part of the stable of Capt. Sam Brown will race at New Orleans tho coming winter. Peter Wimmer, Captain Browns trainer, will take twenty of the most backward of the yearlings in tho string to Mobile for tho winter. Ipse Dixit, Lady Josephine and Mabel Winn will also be sent south and, in charge of the assistant trainer, will race at the Crescent City meeting. Brussel, the little rider who won with Ipso Dixit at Sheepshead Bay and who had the mount yesterday, will go along to pick up a little riding experiencs. This little chap gives promise of becoming a good rider. His family was out tp see his second effort in the saddle yesterday. He acquitted himself nobly, although he did not got any part of the money this time. There will not be an off day after all between the end of racing at Gravesend and the beginning at Morris Park. As originally planned there would not have been any racing on Monday, October 6. The day was left blank by tho Jockey Club, but because of the kindness of Mr. Sanford, of the Bacing Commission, and James. E. Keene, vice president of the Jockey Club, tho extra day will be a curtain-raiser at Morris Park, and all the proceeds will go to the hospital and cemetery fund of the New York Press Club. The club owns outright seven hospital beds, which cost 5,000, and a big plot in Cypress Hill Cemetery. The demand for assistance of late in the way of charity has caused a depletion of tho real estate fund to moot tho unexpected cost of funerals, and tho generosity of Messrs. Koono and Sanford will relieve an embarassing situation.
