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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The reports from "down the line" are that Lucien Appleby has entered his four-year-old form in the very finest shape, and that if no mishap befalls him will prove a formidable factor in all the events in which he is entered. The same is said of Jiminez and Rose Tree. Jiminez does not fancy heavy going, but he is a race horse of speed and quality. He was not raced much last season because of the condition of the tracks during the greater part of the time. The son of The Commoner won three races, and his running qualities were sold toward the end of the season by F. J. Kelley to P. Dunne. He was beaten, by the fast mare Rose Tree in a match race at Harlem, a race that gave dissatisfaction to his admirers as is usual in match races. The mare is very fast, and it is expected from the way she has wintered that she will be as good as she ever has been when she is called upon this season, and she is well engaged, as is the policy of Mr. Cor-rigan. The same owner has another of the handicap brigade that is a race horse of the highest class, the English thoroughbred Scin-tillant n. He won the Twentieth Century Handicap at Harlem Park, making a new worlds record for the distance. He is a race horse of rare speed, endurance and gameness. But he has one bad failing he is a vicious and sulking brute. Scintillant n. is to be bred for a time, and is then to be taken up for the seasons campaign. He may be depended upon to cut a figure in every race unless he sulks. Sydney Paget has declared Waterboy, the Watercress colt Handicapper Vosburgh rates within a few pounds of L. V. Bells Francesco, out of the Brooklyn Handicap. The declaration is made because Jack Joyner does not believe that it would be good policy to attempt to get Waterboy ready too early. Nothing ails the colt. He is doing well at Sheepshead Bay and all the trainers look upon him as one of the most promising horses in Joyners string. Waterboy is the horse that ran into the fence on the Withers turn at Morris Park last spring, while undergoing his Belmont Stakes trial, and splintered one of the bones in his legs.
