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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Two of the best horses of the season will arrive at Montgomery Park from California within the next few days, having been shipped last Saturday. They are Horton, the winner of the Burns Handicap, vvith its 0,-000 added money, and Claude, the winner of the California Derby, with its value of several thousand dollars. With the two will come two car loads of other racers. Horton is an aged horse, the property of Bianchi and McGovern, and has never been raced this side of the Rockies since being purchased by this firm. He has been regarded as a first class selling plater for several years, having won many races under all kinds of conditions. In most races he was entered for sale at from 00 to 00. On December 30 he won a selling race when in at 00. Then within a few weeks he won this 0,000 stake, which shows the luck in racing. At the Memphis meet he will probably be seen in the Tennessee Brewing Company stakes, and in such selling races as conditions seem to please his owners. He is unquestionably a game racer, always trying, for which reason his record is exceedingly creditable. He will have many backers in all is owned by M. J. Daly, having been claimed out of a selling race some weeks ago. He is a consistent performer. In the Burns Handicap he finished third, while he won the California Derby, and he finished just outside the money in a hard race with Yellow Tail, Cunard, and other CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE, J GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from first page. good racers. As a two-year-old he was given plenty of work last season. Always he showed fair form and won several times. It required three starts for him to win his first event.. One of his best races was at Brooklyn September 30, when he won a selling race from Sheriff Bell, Witfull, and several other fast youngsters. He is in the Tennessee Derby and will probably start in other races when any .are framed to suit his owner. "Usually he is ridden by J. Daly, one of the best boys riding at present on the coast. Lucien Lyne, who" .will ride the Keene horses in England this season, gives glowing reports of the string at Newmarket. In a late letter to his brother, Farrell Lyne, the rider who has made a good reputation on this side, says: "Newmarket is all right, and the horses which Mr. Keene has there are in good shape, and will, in my opinion, beat more than will beat them this year on the English turf." Lyne is with Matt Allen, a past master of the art of preparing horses for certain future stakes, and the Keene invasion this year will probably be more successful than ever before. T. C. McDowell, who developed Bracegirdle, Allan-a-Dale and other well known thoroughbreds, believes he has more than a look-in , for the American Derby with his candidates Bourbon and Woodlake. Both have wintered well at Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, near Lexington, Ky. Woodlake is a chestnut colt by Candlemas Bracegirdle. Woodlake hardly showed derby form in his races. The wiry chestnut had a rare burst of speed, but did not seem capable of holding it over a distance of ground. Woodlake started fourteen times as a two-year-old, was first three times, second once arid third three times. Bourbon is a brown colt, by Sir Dixon Kan-awaha. In his two-year-old form he faced the barrier but five times and ran second three .times. Both colts are entere"d in the Kentucky Derby, and McDowell believes he will repeat the success of Allan-a-Dale with one, or the other of his candidates. It developed several days ago that the cause of Tichenor and Co. not sending their fast filly Flocarline to New Orleans to start in yie Crescent City Derby, was a bet of made by her owner against ,000 in the future book on the Montgomery Handicap. The bet was made here, and trainer Poole received instructions at the last moment to keep Flocarline at Memphis to be prepared for the Montgomery. Poole has been promised the services of C. Kelly to ride Flocarline, while Wonderly will ride Waswift, the other Tichenor candidate. Conditions were perfect for fast work at Montgomery Park Wednesday, but a mile in 1:49 by Au Revoir, G. C. Bennetts Arkansas Derby candidate, and halves in 51 seconds by several youngsters were the best recorded. Jockey Bullman has reported to talte up the exercising of the horses in the Schorr stables, for which he will ride, this year. McChesney, as well as other crack runners of the new Smathers stable, is expected to race at the Kansas City Jockey Clubs new track during the initial meeting next fall, if there are no big stake engagements to be filled in the east at that time. This announcment is made by C. C. Christie, president of the Kansas City Jockey Club, who has just returned to Kansas City from a three weeks visit to E. E. Smathers, the recent purchaser of the grand son of Macduff. Among other prominent stables of the west that will probably send representatives to the Kansas City track next fall are those of Edward Corrigan, S. C. Hildreth, Durnell and Herz, Messrs. Scoggan, Strode, McCafferty and S. S. Brown. These assure Kansas City as fine a class of horses as can be seen at any of the Chicago or St. Louis tracks. In fact, most of the runners that will be raced during the Jockey Clubs meeting will have been at the large tracks during the summer. The Kansas City meeting, which will open September 1, will have as its inaugural feature a handicap to be known as the Kansas City Derby, with a value ranging from 0,-000 to 0,000 in added money. Another stake of about half the value will be run during the latter part of the meeting, and several events of ,000 are to be scattered through the three or more weeks racing. This makes such an attractive program that western horsemen, with few exceptions, have signified their intention of sending their stables to the track now building, which will be one of the prettiest and best appointed in the country. There is no doubt that the track will be completed by the first of July, but the meeting will not open before September. Word comes from San Francisco that Burns and Waterhouse have decided to ultimately retire from the racing game. Of late the firms luck seems to have completely deserted it. Maxnic contracted catarrhal fever last October, a filly was killed- while working this winter, Corrigan was injured, another highly prized youngster ran its head into a post and the speedy San Nicholas went wrong. Altogether Burns and Waterhouses cup of ill-luck has been filled to overflowing. The intention is to send to the far east a small, but select string, in charge of trainer C. T. Patterson, and when the racers can be sold to good advantage, they will pass out of the hands of their breeders forever. As soon as their horses are sold off the colors of Burns and Waterhouse will be known no more. The string which trainer Patterson will take across the Rockies is as follows: Rockaway, Toledo, Cascine, Sweet Tone, Rowena and Dundreary, two-year-olds and Corrigan. The retirement of Burns and Waterhouse will be a great loss to California racing interests. In the last year or so Colonel Burns has become quite a student of the breeding problem, and it is his intention to devote all their attention to the breeding farm at Hopland, Cal. Seventeen candidates for the Kentucky Derby are now quarteredatChurchillDowns, Louisville, Ky. Last year only nineteen colts qualified for the Derby by making the final payment. Then the field to face the starter was made up of four horses Allan-a-Dale, Inventor, Abe Frank and The Rival. This year thirty-six have qualified for the Derby and the chances are that at least ten or twelve will face the barrier when starter J. J. Holtman grabs his red flag. The Derby candidates now quartered at Churchill Downs are as follows: Early, Stakeholder, Guardian, Mary La-vana, Blando, Valeat, Bad News, Manru, The Picket, Shooting Star, Santon, Onatas, Maxey Blumenthal, McGowan, Raven, Mc-Gee, Sanfoin. All of the foregoing colts and the filly have been taking their work nicely; but little has been asked of them as yet because the weather has been bad and the track is unfit for fast trials. As soon as the rain shows some sign of ceasing for a period of some length, harrows will be set to work on the track and an attempt will be made to put it in good condition. Eugene Fischoff, who is said to own the largest string of horses on the French turf, has sailed for home on the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse. He has been in this country for months investigating conditions of the turf. Before sailing Mr. Fischoff said: "I am still undecided whether to bring any of my horses to this country. At present I have nineteen horses in training. Most of them are jumpers. My friends have urged me to . bring some of them over and take 1 a part in American track performances. If I decide to enter the racing game on this side, I shall ship over in about four weeks six of my best jumpers. I have not engaged any American jockeys, as the riders of France and England are, superior to those of this country for jumping races. Hurdle riders here have not the same, chance for development that they have in France." Pericles, owned in the name of Mrs. E. Brewster, has been given some good work at Montgomery Park during the last two weeks, and the horse is beginning to get in proper shape for the coming season. He has been declared out of the Montgomery handicap by Mr. Brewster, who looks after him, but. he will be seen in other stake events with three-year-olds. He is eligible for the Peabody Hotel and Tennessee Brewing Company stakes. During the coming two weeks he will be carefully prepared for these events, and it is altogether possible that he will be a strong contender for one of them. He will also be started in other purse and selling races, and will be carefully worked out before going further along the line. Mr. Brewster is also preparing a three-year-old purchased from Bishop Poole, which has never been started in a race. He had this horse out for a schooling at the barrier yesterday for the first time.
