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GOSSIP OE THE TURF. A. B. Spreckels has sold his good two-year-old IjiGandviota, daughter of Crighton Nellie Bell, to W. L. Oliver, the New York turfman who is racing at Inglasido this season. The consideration was said to have been ,000, with 00 additional if the filly wins a stake., Mr. 8preckels could have sold Gaviota to Burns and Waterhouse if he had chosen to do 10 at the last State Fair just prior to the Stallion Stake being run off, but refused a tempting offer at that time, preferring to take his. chances of winning the. rich stake. That his judgment was not at fault was demonstrated by the fine race run by Gaviota, which was only beaten owing to a superior jockey having the mount on Maxnic. Gaviota is a fine looking filly and has shown a liking for a route and an ability to carry weight which should give her a great chance for the California Oaks next spring. Morinel, the game daughter of Morello Sunlit, by Monday, has broken down and will soon be sold for a broodmare by the Scoot Brothers, for Morello mares are considered prizas, and this one has won no loss than twenty-six races,, including a mile in 1 :40i, one and one-oighth miles in 1 :53 and one and a quarter miles in 2 :07, while her dam is the mother of El Rayo, Sunrise, Buhello and St. Sever. H. M. Ziegler, ex-owner of Hermis, has sold to H. G. Goode, of Cincinnati, the four-year-old brown filly Harlem Lane, by Kingston Medusa, by Sensation. Harlem Lane was a good two-year-old in 1900. and later raced well in England as a three-year-old. Goode will campaign her this season before retiring her to the stud. Information of semi-official character has leaked out at Memphis that jockey J. Woods, who was ruled off at Hawthorne last summer will be reinstated at the next meeting of the Western Jockey Club. It is stated that many prominent horsemen, including P. Dunne, whose horse, J. V. Kir.by, was responsible for the downfall of Woods, agreed to indorse Woods application for reinstatement. James Rowe, trainer for J. R. Keene, is convalescing from a recent serious operation at a private sanitarium . in East Thirty-third street. New York City. His physicians state that unless unexpected complications arise he will be well in a few weeks.
