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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. John E. Madden shipped last "Wednesday from Lexington, Ky.; to Aiken, S. C, to Whitney and Duryea the good two-year-olds Irish Lad and Alsono. These youngsters cost Whitney and Duryea 2,500, the former bring-ing5,000. IrishLadwasbredby Madden. Madden will retain and train their two-year-old Whorler, a son of Inverness Whyota, a sister to Ornament, arid train him for Whitney and Duryea. He is eligible to the Realization and other great events. He ran second this year to Whitechapel in the Double Event. Madden has in training also W. C. Whitneys three-year-old last years English Derby candidate Intruder, which he hopes will be good the coming season. Both Whorler and Intruder will be sent to Louisville later on. George C. Bennett will have a big stable ready for the spring meeting at Memphis. His horses are wintering at the Bennett farm near there, and his two-year-olds are as fine a bunch of youngsters as a man ever laid his eyes on. Mr. Bennett is very much pleased with the two-year-olds he has bred on his farm. He declares that they are bigger and better than those he purchased in the blue grass region, a section of country that supplies the turf with its best material. Abe Frank will be ready to race in the spring. He was a big disappointment last year, but he has wintered well and will be a new horse when he is sent to the post the coming season.. The horse Blue Peter, of the Prospect stable, now wintering at the Brooklyn racetrack, and which showed himself in two or jthree races last season to be quite a fast rwo.year-old, is a very sick horse. His temperature for eleven straight days has been 106, and all hopes were given up that he would recover, but Dr. Waters noticed a flight change in him Thursday, which he thinks is for the better, and says with a lit tle good luck and nursing he hopes to be "able to pull him through. This is the only sick horse at the Gravesend track. Jack Joyner, the traTner of Mr. Sydney Pagets extensive string, has a peculiar proposition in his stable, and one that time alone can solve. This is nothing more nor less than the three-year-old colt Water Boy, by Watercress Zealandia, which sustained a fracture of the thigh early last season, but which, to all appearances, is as good now as he ever was. Jockey Winnie OConnor has just closed a deal through August JBelmont, by which M. Debloch, of Paris, is to have second call on his services. .Baron Rothschild has, contracted to pay OConnor 5,000 a year for first call on his services. M. Debloch is to give him 0,000 a year for second call. The contract be gins on March 1, 1903, and runs to March 1, 1906. OConnor is to ride at 110 pounds. Capt. S. S. Brown, of Pittsburg, has been a very liberal nominator to the stakes next spring at the New Memphis Jockey Club, according to reports, and he has also entered a long list of his star coming two-year-olds in the Tennessee Derby and Oaks for 1904. Captain Brown years ago was a regular patron of the southern tracks, and the mighty Senorita, for which great mare his breeding farm is named, raced upon several occasions south of the Mason and Dixon Line. Perhaps the greatest crowd that ever witnessed a days racing at Mont gomery Park, Memphis, was in 1887, when Captain Browns Blue Wing defeated the great Montana Regent. In recent years the Pittsburg millionaire has not been represented on the southern tracks, so that the fact that his colors are to be seen in this section this spring will add greatly to the interest in the racing at Memphis in 1903 and help to make it the banner season of this flourishing club. The big string of horses owned by H. M. Ziegler, ex-owner of Hermis, are wintering in fine style at Highland Park Stock Farm, Lexington, Ky., in the care of the stables regular trainer, Charles Hughes. The latter is much pleased with his new wjnter quarters, and is keeping bachelor hall at Highland in company with his secretary, Frank Bissick, formerly secretary of the Tattersalls Bale Com pany. Hughes says he has as good a stable of two-year-olds as there is in America. The ,000 brother to Lady Schorr is one of the favorites of the string, and Hughes would not advise the colts owner to sell him even for twice the sum he cost the Cincinnati theatrical manager. Hughes fancied the colt even as a winter yearling, and he has never had cause to regret the good opinion formed of the son of Esher when he saw him first in the paddocks at Iroquois Stud Farm, Turney Brothers, of Paris, Ky., who developed Tillo, Dr. Catlett and Maude Gonne, will have some twenty horses in training the coming season, which will be shipped from the farm about January 20 to Cumberland Park, Nashville, where they will receive their preparation for the seasons campaign. They have great hopes in their slashing three-year-old colt Glen Water, and the son of Wawekus is to be pointed especially for the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps next year. Glen Water will likely make his first start the coming season in the Montgomery Handicap at Memphis. J, V. Shipp, Sunny Slope Stud, and J. 8. Hawkins, of Midway, Lexington, Ky., have formed a partnership, and will have a string of sixteen horses in training the coming season, which will be handled by Hawkins. The lot consists of Ave coming three-year-olds and eleven two-year-olds, and will be shipped to Memphis about January 15, Hawkins having selected Montgomery Park as his winter training ground. In this new racing stable are several prospective crack two-year-olds, which were highly tried as yearlings last fall. A consignment of six thoroughbreds for J. R. and F. P. Keene arrived on the steamship Minnehaha several days ago, which included the well known horses Noonday II. and Olympian. Both are performers of some distinction in America as well as in England, and both are by the great Domino. In his two-year-old form Olympian ran second to Ballyhoo Bey for the Futuritv of 1900, beating his stablemate, Tommy Atkins. Noonday II. won the Belles Stakes in the same year.
