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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. At a meeting of tho executive committee of the New Memphis Jockey Club, hold several days ago, M. N. Macfarlan was appointed presiding judge of tho meeting which commences at Montgomery Park March 30 and ends with tho racing on April 22. Mr. Macfarlan has occupied the stand at Worth, Windsor and Nashville on various occasions, and last season ho assisted Capt. J. H. Rees at Louisville. J. W. Russwurm, of Nashville, and S. M. Apperson, of Little Reck, wero approved associate judges C. J. Fitzgerald, official Jockey Club starter, was reappointed to act in the position Bo has hold since 190. Concerning R. W. Walden and Sons filly, Petunia, by Knight of tho Thistle-Pansy, which won the Dobutanto Stakes yesterday, a horseman who had noted her work has this to say : "I will not say that I consider Petunia tho best of tho two-year-old fillios at New Orleans, but her work has impressed mo with the, idea that she has more than ordinary claim to quality. I do not liko her in the mud, but over a fast, oven, fair track she will bo hard to beat and is worth a bet any time sho starts with good footing under her. I saw her merely canter throe-eighths in 36 seconds a few mornings ago. C. R. Ellison has received word of tho death at Memphis of ono of his crack two-year-old fillies, Norma Ellison, a full sister to Lovfng Cup, namad after his wife. Tho filly died of lung fever. Ellison bought eight yearlings at the Now York salo last summer, paying 5,0G0 for them. He gavo one away and now has six left, tho lot including two or three that ho bolieves to bo stake youngsters. E. J. Arnold has received a telegram from his manager at tho breeding farm that a fine Spendthrift mare there has has just foaled a colt sirrd by Bitter Root. Mr. Arnold wired back to name the youngster Walter Arnold, after his only son. Bitter Root is a horse imported by Marcus Daly-soma years ago. Amberita, Barney Schreibers chestnut filly, by Balgowan Miss Baker, haB been suffering from bucked shins since her debut on New Years Day at San Francisco, and as Schreiber thinks a whole lot of her ho is not likely to lot George Covington do much with her on the track until she fully recovers. John Skain, administrator of the estate of the late James Murphy, has sold to C. B. Hawkins, of Midway, Ky., the seven-year-old bay mare Semper Eadem, by Rossington Semper Vivent, sho by Jils Johnson, for ,000. Tho mare is heavy in foal to Wadsworth. Tho horses Echo Dale and James J. Corbett handve been fired and turned out and Shandonfiold blistered.
