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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Alloway, Milton Youngs latest importation for stud services, has arrived at Lexington, Ky., and will make his first season in Kentucky at McGrath-iana Stud in 1903. Alloway is by Springfield Lady Morgan, by Thormanby, and a full brother to Mor-ganette, dam of Galtee More, winner of the 2,000 Guineas, Derby and St. Leger, sold to the Austrian government for 25,000. Morganette is aleo the dam of Ard Patrick, winner of the English Derby this year. Alloway won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot, the Great Yorkshire Handicap and other races in England. Fourteen stallions will stand at McGrathiana Stud next season. Maj. F. A. Daingerfield, manager of the Castle-ton Stud, Lexington, Ky., on account of Yoter being an imported horse selected American mares to breed to him last spring. Cinderella, dam of Musical Slipper, is the only English mare bred to him. But the Metropolitan Handicap winner has been bred to a rare lot of American bred stud matrons, among them being Belle of Maywood, dam of Tenny and Olympian ; Ella T dam of Banquet and Tea Tray ; Shipmate, dam of First Mate ; Maurine, dam of Maurice and Port Royal; Handmaid, by Hanover Fredericks Pride, by Frederick the Great; Queenstown, dam of Ivornia and sister to Kingston; Gingham, by Domino Calico, by Hampton; Pink Domino, by Domino Belle Rose, by Beaudesert. He was also mated to several other young daughters of Domino which met with accidents in training and never raced, and were bred for the first time last spring. Voter is quite a favorite with visitors at Castleton. He has not the kingly bearing of the mighty Commando or the sensational Disguise II., but in the opinion of all good judges will prove his worth in the stud. J. B. Haggin made a great showing this year in breeding two-year-old winners at his Rancho de Paso and Elmendorf studs. He not only bred Sav-able, the largest winning two-year-old of the year, but he also bred Irish Lad, which stands second among the money-winning two-year-olds of 1902. He bred fifty-five two-year-old winners, and, besides Savable and Irish Lad, fourteen of these were stake winners, namely, Artvis, Golden Maxim, Girdle, Fitzbrillar, Gold Van, Hurstbourne, Charles El-wood, Sir Voorhies, Africander, Shooting Star, Allan, Mary Lavana, Parisienne and Roxboro. In the sire of these winners, Golden Garter leads with njne winners to his credit. This horse, which has taken such a commanding position this year among Haggins great stallions, is a half brother to the Derby winner, Sainfoin, being by the Derby winnor Bend Or Sanda, by Wenlock, winner of the St. Leger. J. S. Caaapbell, who has just returned from abroad, says the principal trouble American horss owners and trainers have to contend against in England and France is the result of operations of "touts" and "sure thing" men, who have" posed as representatives of this country on the turf. Another source of more or less scandal, he says, is that the Americans engaged in training and racing abroad appear to be jealous of one another and express personal opinions that are not complimentary. While in Paris he conversed with several persons well informed on turf matters about th,o cases of Johnny Reiff and Milton Henry. The information he obtained caused him to believe Reiff would be reinstated and that Henrys case had a different aspect. That good horse, Warranted, which was expocted to run in the two long races at Bennings this week, put his foot in a hole several days ago while being galloped after the races were over and pulled up almost broken down. His off fore log is in bad shape, so bad that Tom Mannix says he would be lucky to patch him up for New Orleans late in that meeting. This removes one of the prominent candidates for the Washington Cup and Maximum Stakes. Warranted won one of these races last year, and was expected to make a bold bid this time. Jockey Patsy Freeman, who has been riding for . several seasons in France and who has been visiting relatives at Lexington, Ky., for a week past, will spend the winter in California and return to France early next spring. He may take a few mounts in San Francisco this winter, though, he sayB, he has had none too good luck in America in recent years, and for fear he might be picked out for a mark and be set down by the judgos, which would jeopardize his chances abroad, he will appear very little in the saddle on the coast, taking only mounts on good horses in stake races. Jockey Jesse Mathews will not bo seen in the saddle this winter. He has not recovered from the throat ailment that bothered him in the latter part of the racing here, and which laid him up for the greater part of the Latonia meeting. His physician has ordered him not to take any chances this winter and says that ho will b entirely cured when next spring rolls around. Mathews and his bride of a month have been stopping in Cincinnati ever since his marriage and, barring a few weeks at the springs, he will be there all winter.
