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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. From late developments it appears that the deal between P. J. Dwyer and W. K. Vandebilt, which resulted in the announcement of thesale of the formers black six-year-old horse "Hammock, by Hanover Aurania, by Virgil, never came to a satisfactory conclusion, and the horse instill the-property of the president of the BrooVlyrJockey Club. This was brought out by the arriVaf of the son of Hanover at Lexington last week. He was taken at once to Hamburg Place, where he will at present be located in the stud. Being also the owner of Handspring, now in the Melbourne Stud of Col. W. S. Barnes, Mr. Dwyer now has two great sons of Hanover in the stud in Kentucky. Fair Rosalind, the three-year-old sistepto the exiled Gold Heels, in J. I. Smiths string at the Gravesend track, bids fair to becomes factor in all of the three-year-old filly stake evems of this season. Like the majority of The Bards get, Fair Rosalind was slow in develojnng as a two-year-old. Yet she showed Matt AUdn so well that he had great hopes of her, gave ner all the time she needed, and indulged her so that she should surely show the effects of it this year. She is an exceedingly powerful filly, with a crest on her like a colt, and has remained perfectly sound throughout her early preparation. H. T. Oxnards two royally-bred mares, Impatience, by Friars Balaam Larra D., by the Derby winner, Galopin, and Foot Print sister to Gold Heels, by The Bard Heel and Toe, by Glenelg, have arrived at Willamette Stud. The former is seven and the latter four years old. They will be bred to Hawkswick, the latest importation majie by the president of the Sugar Trust, who isfast forming a great stud of thoroughbred mrres in Kentucky, and in a year or two more .will bp as much in the breeding game as W. X3. Whitney, August Belmont and other millionairriNew Yorkers Edward Frazer, of Lexingtonky., has lost by death the broodmare, HouieGl, by Himyar Jhe Sweeper. She was eleven years old and the dam of Buttons and Laundress and a half sister to S. C. Hildreths Waring. She died after foalulg a bay filly by Contestor. The broodmare, Handmaid, byFellowcraft Radah, by Glenlyon, owned by 3 JR. and F. P. Keene, has foaled a chestnut filly bj Yrter at the Castle-ton Stud, Lexington, Ky. Tlrisisthe first colt by the noted Metropolitan Handicap winner, he hav- ing been retired to the stud only last spring. Secretary Clark, of the Crescent City Jockey Club, announces an extra stake, to be run February 25, entries to which close February, 12. The conditions of this stake are as follows : To be run Wednesday, February 25, 1903, the New Orleans Railways Company Stake, for three-year-olds and upward ; "$ to accompany the nomination. 5 additional to start, the New Orleans Railways Company to subscribe ,0C0. of which 00 to the second, C0 to the third, the fourth to save its stake; weights to be announced three days prior to the race; winners of a race after publication of weights to carry 5 pounds extra selling purses not included ; acceptances to be made through the entry box the day preceding the race by 11 a. m. ; those so named to be liable for starting foe. One mile. Scintillant II., by Sheen Saltire, owned by Ed ward Corrigan. has arrived at Lexington, Ky., to be placed in the stud at his farm near there. After making a short stud season the horse will bo put in training and raced the coming season. In England he won the Czarewitch, and last summer he captured the Twentieth Century Handicap at Chicago.
