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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Still they come. Within two days the announcement of two new and valued recruits to the owners list has been made. On Saturday at Gravesend the friends of E. D. Morgan, of the State Racine Commission, gleefully proclaimed Mr. Morgans determination to enter upon active racing in 1903. At the conclusion of the Fairview sale yesterday, R. C. McC. Potter, the purchaser of the noted young stallion Knight of the Thistle at the Reed offering for 8,000, remarked to a number of bystanders that he guessed New Jersey, could raise just as high class thoroughbred stock as the Kentucky Blue Grass country, and that he intended forthwith to breed and race the product of his Pequest. Stud, situated at Andover, Subsox county, New Jersey. He will be represented on the metropolitan turf next year. Morgan and Potter typify the sort of additions to the owners ranks the true interests of the turf seek. Each of them possesses a sufficiency of this worlds goods to permit of entering upon racing in a true sporting spirit. It is quite likely that Morgan would sponu 0,000 to win the Kenner Stakes of 0,000 at Saratoga if by so doing he plucked the laurel wreath from his friend John S. Sanford. The nucleus of the Morgan string, comprising twelve two-year-olds, mostly the get of August Belmonts good horse Don de Oro, are now quartered at Brighton Beach under the care of trainer James Boden. They will winter there. The stable will be powerfully re-enforced early in the spring by several high class horses ready to race and win. Now York Evening Sun. The assertion that Major Daingerfleld and Gold Heels had won more money for their owners than any other two horses racing this season is incorrect., England holds the record this season. One performer alone, the sensational filly Sceptre, has hauled down more money than the combined earnings of Gold Heels and Major Daingerfleld. Sceptre has won 66,968 on the turf, 36,552 of which was won this season. She leads all horses in the world in money won in 1902, and, save La Fleche, she is the largest winning mare in racing history. The wonderful record is as follows : Race. Finish. Amt.Won. Lincolnshire Handicap Second . $ 485 Two Thousand Guineas ..First 25,462 One Thousand Guineas First 26,675 Derby Unplaced ? Oaks First 22,985 Grand Prix de Paris Unplaced Coronation Stakes Unplaced St. James Palace Stakes First 12,610 Sussex Stakes Second 970 Nassau Stakes First 3,880 St. Leger First 26.C0O Park Hill Stakes Second 485 Jockey Club Stakes First 35,000 As a two-year-old Sceptre started three times, winning the July and Woodcote Stakes, earning at that age 2,416. She has thiB year won 82 and ,S86 respectively more than Miss Woodford and Firenzi, the two leading mares of the American turf, won during their entire career. Sceptres closest relation in America on the maternal side is the imported stallion Star Ruby, owned by J. B. Haggin. Star Ruby is Sceptres half brother. In selling out their thoroughbreds the Messrs. Morris do not intend to retire from the turf perma nently. They will return with the Barbarity jacket in course of a year or two, when their business engagements will permit of it. They announce, however, that they do not intend to breed any more, but will in the future purchase their racing stock at auction as yearlings. Hennen Morris says that he hopes to see the well-known colors used by the fourth generation of the Morris family. His trainer, Wyndham Walden, is even now outrunning him in this respect; for his little granddaughter owned and ran the horse, Mount Hope, which was claimed from her at Aqueduct by W. T. McGrath. She is a daughter of Fred Littlefield, making the fifth generation of the Walden family which has raced horses. Messrs. J. R. and F. P. Keene have received at their training quarters, Red Bank, N. J., the following yearlings, twelve in number : Browu colt, by Ben Brush Veva, by Mortemer; brown colt, by KingstonDancing Water, by Isonomy ; bay coltr, by Ben Brush Maid of Dorset, by Dutch Skater ; bay colt, by Kingston Lady Gay, by St. Gatien; bay colt, by Donovan La Belle III., by Onondaga; bay filly, by Kingston St. Cypria, by St. Gatien; chestnut filly, by Horoscope Ermine, by Ten Broeck; chestnut filly, by Knight of the Thistle Onoma, by Hampton ; chestnut filly, by Knight of Ellerslie Fatima, by Gailiard ; chestnut filly, by St. Leonards Dutch Flag, by Dutch Skater; bay filly, by St. Leonards Dnsk, by Chorister; chestnut filly, by St. Leonards Maid of Erin. The Donovan and La Blle III. colt cost the Messrs. Keene ,200 when a weanling. Save Isinglass, the sire of this youngster is the largest money-winning horse in the history of racing.
