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NASHVILLE GOSSIP. Nashville, Term., February 24. The snow has disappeared from the main track at Cumberland Park, and with a few more bright days the outdoor track will be in good condition and trainers will have a brighter feeling. Last week the weather conditions were such that practically nothing could be done. "Wishard, McDaniel, Gardner, Hayes, and others tried the snow, and trained for several days in the infield. Tomorrow John Bright will put up a starting gate .at Cumberland Park and will commence the training and schooling of yearlings. The Drake people, as well as Gorman and Bauer, T. P. Hayes and others, are anxious to educate their youngsters before the spring meetings. Every morning for an hour or so school will be open and owners can have an experienced man to educate the youngsters at the barrier. Jockey Crowhurst got in this morning from New Orleans. He will exercise horses for T. P. Hayes. Crowhurst weighs something like 130 pounds. H. N. McTyeire has bred the dam of Charley Thompson to Handcuff, by Hanover-Black Maria, by Bonnie Scotland. Out of the entries for the Cumberland Derby, twenty-seven of the number are engaged in the American Derby at Washington Park. Those wintering at Nashville are in fine fettle, and one should naturally look to either Memphis or Nashville to furnish the winner of the greatest three-year-old race in the west. There is a grand lot of three-year-olds at both places. Farm overseer Spence, of Belle Meade, is authority for the statement that William Jackson, Jr., has been offered and refused 0,000 for his great stallion, The Commoner, by Hanover. Trainer Albert Franklin is putting the "prep" on Olefiant for the Tennessee Oaks. This fiiiy won five stakes last season, and four purse races. She is also engaged in the Cumberland Park Derby. Enoch Wishard will breed several mares in his string next month. They will be bred to a colt that Wishard brought over from England. They will also be trained and raced this season. Woodford Clay, of Paris, Ky., arrived at - Nashville today and will at once commence work on the Clay Bros, string of horses. In his collection he has the filly Flying Ship, which was unbeaten last season. This is the filly that Gorman and Bauer offered ,000 for. Moore Johnson, the jockey, arrived from New Orleans recently and has commenced work for his father, J. M. Johnson. Sam Pack has engaged stable room for thirteen horses at Cumberland Park. He is expected at Nashville this week with his horses. William Gerst, the millionaire brewer, has decided to close out his trotting horse interests and will sell all the trotters on the Hermitage stud form. Gerst, however, will continue to raise and race runners. J. W. R.
