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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The future of Kenilworth Park, Buffalo, is shrouded in mystery. At present it is in the hands of the sheriff, but there is talk that several combinations stand ready to buy it in. There is also a rumor that leading men in The Jockey Club, acting on the advice of S. S. Howland, who acted as steward at tho Buffalo meeting last summer, may buy the track and run it on the lines followed at other tracks in New York state. The report that John J. Byan, who is attempting to get up a circuit of outlaw tracks, will include Kenilworth Park is generally disbelieved, inasmuch as it would be impossible to conduct such a meeting within the confines "of the state of New York, where the Racing Commission is supreme. Hart Dernham is now tho solo owner of the horses which have been racing in the name of Curtis and Dernham. Several days ago he bought out Curtis interest in the stable, the horses in the string being Peat, Huzzah, Worthington, Optional, Marcos and Begone. He says he was influenced to take the course he adopted because of the talk about cooperative bookmaking and ownership, and that he went before a notary public and made affidavit that the sale was bona-fide. He paid over the money in the presence of the notary. The four-year-old bay filly All Saints, by St. Saviour 8t. Cypria, by St. Gatien, is dead at the farm of the Virginia breeder, William Garth. All Saints was owned by Algernon Daingerfield, of Lexington, Ky., and was regarded as highly valuable, inasmuch as during her turf career she has, up to the close of tko present season, won fourteen races. Daingerfield loft her in Virginia at the close of the Bennings meeting to rest up for a few weeks before shipping her to Kentucky. A controversy over tho ownership of the horse Brandy Smash came up at the New Orleans fair grounds last Monday. The horse has been racing there under the name of J. Evans. A person named T. Hagan claims to be the roal owner of the horse. He said that he was tho one who supplied the money to buy Brandy Smash, and that he only agreed to divide the profits with Evans. He produced a paper signed by Evans to this effect. Brandy Smash has won several purses and Hagan claims that he has not received his share of them. On the other hand, Evans says he has a bill of sale made out in his name, and on this he sets up his claim of absolute ownership. The affair looks like a mixed-up matter and one for the stewards to unravel. There is certainly something back ef it. Algernon Daingerfield, assistant secretary of the Washington Jockey Club, has sold to John E. Madden, Hamburg place, the seven-year-old chestnut mare, Lady Scarlet, by Pirate of Penzance Pap-poose. Pappoose is the dam of Myrtle Harkness, which threw Acefull and was an Oaks winner. She is -owned by Madden also. W. C. Whitney is increasing his breeding farms extensively, for, at the sales at Newmarket, his agent, JohnHuggins, bought Lord Clonmels mare, Regatta, in foal to St. Frusquin, for ,000, and Santa Stella, in foal to Cyliene, for ,000. It is tho intention of Mr. Whitneys agent to send the latter mare to America for the American millionaires stud in Kentucky,
