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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Willie Waldo, the Kansas City midget, who has been riding with great success at San Franc?sco has been engaged to ride for G. B. Morris the r.ext two seasons at a salary of ,000 per annum and the privilege of accepting outside mounts. Morris hs a stable of such high-class performers as u-iird, Sombrero, Homestead, Old England, Dur.- zzi ai d the crack two-year-old, Boxwood. With this material young Waldo should show up promimntly with the best riders of the eastern division. L,.st year he rode here and at St. Louis. Dr. Rexford has returned to New Orleans from attendance upon some of Barney Schreibers horses that have baen under the weather at Little Rock, including the crack three-year-old filly Geheimuifs. Schreibers lot are all on the mending list, and Dr. Rexford says that Geheimniss will not be seriously retarded in her spring training. There are about 150 horses at Little Rock, and all of them are now in good health and condition, , Blue Ribbon, the three-year-old brother of Blue Girl and Blues, has arrived at the Senorita farm of Capt. S. 8. Brown, Lexington, Ky., from Sheeps-head Bay, and will be turned out for a short tune. Later he will be sent east with a number of other horses from this farm, to be trained by Peter Wim-mer. James B. Haggin has secured from W. C. Whitney the racehorse Nasturtium, and the horse has been transferred from La Belle to Elmendorf Stud Farm, Lexington, Ky. Whether Mr. Haggin has leasod or bought Nasturtium from Mr. Whit-ney no one appeared to know. Nasturtium is now four years old. H is by Watercross Margarique, by Order, and will be remembered as Mr. Whitneys c mdidats for the English Derby last year, when he was shipped to England with as much care as had he been a prince. He cost Mr. Whitney 1903.sh,000 as a two-year-bid, and won for him the Flatbuph and other good stakes. At Elmendorf he will be tho stable companion to the famous Water Color, a rival son of Watercress.
