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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. S. A. White, the New York turfman, visited Lexington, Ky. last week to see about taking up his trio of two-year-olds, which were broken last fall by Dan OBrien at the Kentucky Association track. They will be trained by W. H. Stevenson this year, who has his stable wintering at Versailles, Ky., but will go east with his horses early in May. White has named his youngsters, one of which is a sister to W. C. Whitneys mare Martha II., and the other is out of a half sister to J. W. Schorrs campaigner Ordnung. The latter is thought to be a 0,000 colt and is a Futurity candidate. The three promising youngsters are: Rain or Shine, b. c, by Rainbow Highland Princess, by Jim Gore. Regian, br. c, by Loyalist In Front, by Boulevard. Fair Allien, br. f, by Dandie Dinmont Louise T., by Rayon dOr. A Lexington report says: "A valuable addition to the Ziegler stable, located at Patricks Highland Farm here, has been made by the purchase of the three-year-old colt Jack Young. The price said to have been paid G. C. Baker for the brown son of Lamplighter Johnetta was 0,000. Jack Young raced exclusively at St. Louis last season, and was considered about the best two-year-old that raced there. He was first no less than eleven times, winning among other races the Test Handicap, one mile in 1:41, in which he defeated the good filly Geheimniss. He also won at a mile and seventy yards in 1:45, the first mile of which was run in. 1:40, and at one and one-sixteenth miles in 1:47. In all of his races he finished strongly, and as he seemed especially fond of a mile or over, Mr. Ziegler unquestionably has in Jack Young material for a cracking good three-year-old." The Metropolitan Jockey Club is to have a steeplechase course at the new Jamaica track. It will not be constructed this year, owing to conditions over, which the club have no control, but next season surely. The course will be a regulation course, and when it is ready for business the association will institute a number of first class cross country specials. If The Jockey Club continues the policy as to dates begun this year the Metropolitans principal cross country specials will be run during the spring and autumn meetings. In the spring specials the officers of the club expect to get the "chasers" that run in Washington during March and April, and with the autumnal races they feel pretty sure of catching all the first class, steeplechasers that run at Morris Park, Gravesend and Sheeps-head Bay. Several of the members of the club were at first opposed to the notion of a steeplechase course because they feared they did not have room enough for a good one, but when it was pointed out that Jamaica track was as roomy to all intents and purposes as any on the metropolitan circuit except Morris Park, the objectors withdrew their opposition. These objections had a wholesome origin. A jockey club or racing association which begins business on the principle that everything it does must be first class cannot go far wrong. By the same token it is a certainty that the steeplechase specials instituted at Jamaica will be first races, with liberal contributions from the exchequer of the club, and governed by conditions framed to attract the best "horses through the field the country affords.
