view raw text
GOSSIP OF THE TURF. T. Kiley, with the Arnold string, arrived safe and sound last week at Ingleside with nine horses, including Peaceful, Felix Bard, Searcher, Ethylene, Beana,.Fitzbrillar, Fort Wayne, Bessie McCarthy and Mary McCafferty. Tom is by no means a stranger to the Pacific Coast. Years ago he owned George F. Smith, when that horse broke the five-furloDgs record at the old Bay District track and afterward raced that fast two-year-old, Salabar. In 1894 Kiley had the horses Dick Behan and St. Brandon there also. All the horses shipped in gocd shape and much is expected from the performances of this strong stable. Miss Knickerbocker, one of the fast-flyers at New Orleans from St. Louis, is very sick with lung fever. There has been considerable complaint among the owners at the track regarding the prevalence of this disease. After carefnl investigation it was shown conclusively that the disease did not originate at the Fair Grounds, but was brought by horses shipped to the Crescent City in catch-as-catch-can style and in cars not suitable for the transportation of thoroughbreds. C. E. Ellisons famous colt Skilful may not start at the Crescent City Jockey Clubs meeting. He is at the track and is being trained carefully, but Ellison says not for the stakes offered thereabouts. His first stake will probably be in the Latonia Derby, and if he trains on as Ellison expects, he will go after the banner event of the west, the American Derby. The blonde plunger has sufficient experience in turf affairs to know that a horse campaigned arduously in the south during the winter cannot keep his form in the west in the Bpring, and he intends to save him for the big events up the line. Skilfuls route for next season has bean planned and, barring accidents, he will be heard from in the east before the cold weather drives the horsemen south again. C. R. Ellison says Harry New will not start again unless he is more liberally dealt with by the handicappers. Henry McDaniel, which is in winning form at New Orleans, is a bay colt by Buck Massie, one of the best sons of the great Hanover. Henry McDaniel is the first of Buck Massies get to be trained. He is a colt with a phenomenal turn of speed. He carried 112 pounds and beat a fair field in the most impressive fashion. Buck Massie, the ajsiio of this colt, is the horse with which J. M. Murphy, of Souffle and George Rose fame, won a lot of races on the Metropolitan tracks of 1900.
