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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. It was announced at the Morris Park track Monday, on the authority of Matt Allen, who will train for Messrs. J. R. and F. P. Keene in England noxt season, that about fourteen yearlings and two-year-olds will be shipped to England on the Minnehaha, which leaves New York on Saturday, October 25, for London, whence they will be sent to Newmarket. Allen is also authority for the statement that Lucien Lyne has been secured by Messrs. J. R. and F. P. Keene at a salary of 0,0C0 per annum to ride in England or in America, as his employers might elect. There is hardly a doubt that Lyne will be asked to ride in England. He will, of course, continue to ride in this country for the remainder of this season. The salary paid to Lyne is one of the highest ever offered as a retainer to a jockey on this side of tue water. Next Saturday will be a great racing day at Morris Park, the features being of an exceeding attractive order. The October Steeplechase Handicap at about two miles and a half is the first race of importance that day. H. S. Pages Self Protection, who won the Champion Steeplechase on Saturday, will surely go to the post and Mr. Pago will have the mount. Mr. Chamblet will probably start Adji-daumo and Scotch Bush, with Rowdy and Seminole representing F. Ambrose Clark. Other probable starters are W. C. Hayes Cock Robin, Henry Langs Philma Paxton, T. W. Lawsons Filon dOr, P. Meaneys Inspector Stevens, G. Schwarzs Judge Phillips, Joseph E. Wideners Fulminate. Miss Mitchell and E phone. The Thirty-sixth Champagne Stakes for two-year-olds, which will be worth about 0,000 in gross, will also bo run on Saturday over seven furlongs on the Withers course. If all .of the crack youngsters start there will be a race worth double the usual price of admission. F. R. Hitchcocks Grey Friar may have another chance to defeat not only Whitney and Duryeas Acefull, who was trimmed by him in the Matron Stakes, but also Irish Lad from the same stable. According to the conditions of the stake there are no winning penalties, but there are allowances of from five to fifteen pounds. Acef nil and Irish Lad would each pick up 1122 pounds, while Grey Friar would have an advantage of a three-pound gelding allowance. In addition to these three stars, the Messrs. Keene can start Dalesman, Duster, Clarion, Flying Prince, Gim-crack, Whitechapel, Palmist, Big Ben and Sir Laancelot, if they care to do bo. Mrs. L. Curtis Eugenia Burch, the fleet Ben Strome filly which triumphed in both the second part of the Matron Stakes and the Nursery Handicap, will get in with 119 pounds, a weight she has successfully carried on several occasions. John A. Drakes High Chancellor, which has not been seen since the Saratoga meeting, is another dangerous factor. So is J. E. Maddehs Yardarm, if he starts. Then we have Hurstbourne, Merry Acrobat, W. C. Whitneys Judith Campbell, AugUBt Belmonts Mizzen, Lord of the Vale and Flying Jib, S. S. Browns Blue Ribbon and others of equal prowess. As tbe Champagne Stakes will not be. run down the Eclipse course, but on the Withers course, the struggle will be in full view of the spectators from start to finish, thereby increasing the interest twofold. The third feature for Saturday will be the Muni-pal Handicap for three-year-olds and upward at one and three:quarter miles over the hill, which will give the lovers of long-distance racing a chance to be in their element. Carruthers and Shields great horse Advance Guard, will start. He is in fine shape just now and this distance will be exactly to his liking. It is probable that Blues will go, together with Surmise and Snn Shower. Then, too, it will not be at all surprising to see Baron Pepper, Articulate, Runnels, Herbert, Douro, Hunter Raine, Oom Paul, Maid of Harlem, Tom Kenny and perhaps Colonel Bill go to the post, a field that should provide a sensational event and a fitting wind-up for the week. Of all the western horsemen who invaded the east this year Henry Ziegler has undoubtedly had the most signal success. Hermis, now the idol of the eastern turf, is the one that has done much to bring the Ziegler stable into prominence. Hermis, however, was not alone responsible for its popularity, for, with one or two exceptions, every horse that was taken east this season in the string owned by the Cincinnati theatrical manager and trained by Charles Hughes has been a winner. This is equally true of those that were sold, including such horses as Irene Lindseyf Ravensbury and Mr. Dingle. Hermis is undoubtedly the horse of the year, and in discussing his. victory Monday in a race in which he gave away chunks of weight to every other starter, Mr. Ziegler said: "He is a great colt, and prominent horsemen have told me that I sold him too cheap. He is worth today perhaps twice as much as I got for him, but I set a price and it was accepted. He has won in stakes alone what he cost Mr. Bell, and he will doubtless be a great handicap horse next year. I only hope that it may be my fortune to have another as good some of those days."
