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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Thomas W. Lawsons stable of jumpers has arrived at Saratoga, N. Y., and is now quartered at Horse Haven. The string, which includes some good material, will remain there to recuperate in the invigorating Saratoga winter climate until early in the month of April, when trainer Ralph Black will take them back to the home quarters in Massachusetts. As in past seasons, the Lawson horses will take an active part in the Country Club meeting at Brookline. At the Brookline meeting in May last year Mr. Lawsons Filon dOr won the valuable Grand Annual Country Club Steeplechase, and the handsome cup which the association presents, to the winning owner of that event. Ferocious also won over the hurdles for the "blue, gold ovals," and these colors Iwere successful in other events during the racing season. Mr. Law-son quit the trotting turf last season and is expected to go in for steeplechasing more extensively in the coming season. Whiskey King, which to date has just one race to his credit since his advent in the west, will be retir-edjtemporarily. The big Kantaka fcoltiihas been taken to Memphis by Charley Johnson, his trainer, to be rested up for next seasons campaign at Memphis and Chicago. Whiskey King, at his best, would have cut something of a figure in tho sprints at the Now Orleans meeting, but, unfortunately for Captain Winter, the Chicagoan who secured him out of the Pepper dispersal sale last fall for SI. 000. the horse has just begun to.show sisrns of a return to his early spring and summer form. It is said that when it became known that Whisky King was to be sold he was rather neglected by Colonel Peppers stable hands, and that, having had some hard races, he became musclebound in consequence. Be that as it may, the colts first race at Boby after coming west was bad and it was not until last Monday, when he beat Waswift in atfremarkably fast race for a heavy track, that he showed anything like his real worth. Captain Winter is confident that with the long rest which is to be eiven him the colt will be hard to beat in the spring events at Chicago the coming season. With Whiskey King, the other horses in the string of C. A. Johnson and Co., Bummer, Suburban Queen and Dandie Belle, were taken to Me n-phis.
