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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. It is reported that Foxhall Keene is fo take a much more active interest in racing in this country this season than he has for many seasons past. In addition to the horses that have already sported silk in the Keene colors the stable has the amazing number of forty-three two-year-olds that have shown such good form in trials at Brookdale as" to induce trainer Rowe to put them in training for the coming season. Most of these youngsters were bred at Castleton, Lexington, Ky., and some of them are the foals of imported mares by English sires which were bought and brought to this country by the Messrs. Keene. But some of the most promising of the lot, according to Mr. Rowe, are the get of stout old Kingston, which is still at the head of the Castleton stud. In the lot are a remarkably strong and racy looking group of fillies by this sire. Others of which much is expected are a brown colt by Kingston Katherine IL, the dam of Petruchio, and a brown filly by Kingston Citronella. In the lot also are two Hamburg colts which will run in the elder Keenes name. The dam of one is Shipmate, of the other Pastorella, by Springfield Gris-elda, the mare that cost Mr. Keene 0,000 at the Marcus Daly sale. The prizes of the whole lot, however, in the opinion of Mr. James R. Keene, is a brown colt by Kingston Calico, whose strength, size and quality are said to be of the phenomenal order. He is to be pointed for the most important two-year-old fixtures of 1903.
