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NOTES OF THE TURF. Gilfain, well engaged in big stakes this year, has wintered in perfect shape, and his present appearance has elicited words of a complimentary nature from some of the shrewdest judges of horseflesh, who have taken into consideration the appearance of other American Derby nominations. The fact that he lasted long enough in a mile handicap race at Worth, November 1 last, to beat McChesney a neck has tended to boost the colts stock high this spring. Gil-fains races show that he is possessed of gameness in every instance where he has been called on to show it, and being by Lo-cohatchee, he by Onondaga, dam Sophronia, by Ten Broeck, some of the best strains are included in the blood of the colt. Last year, during the controversey on inbreeding, Col. J. E. Pepper, of Meadowthorpe Stud, as an experiment, bred the mare Cherub, by Bramble Baby, by Strachino, to her half brother, Meadowthorpe. The result is a brown colt, regarded as one of the finest sucklings ever dropped in Kentucky. The dam and sire of this youngster are half sister and half brother respectively to Ballyhoo Bey, who won the Futurity in 1900 for W O Whitney. Jockey C. Kelly has been engaged to ride Louisville in the Montgomery Handicap. She is a six-year-old mare, entered in the name of C. E. Mahone, and is by Loantaka Virulent. She is asked to carry 100 pounds and in the OLeary future book is sellinir it 50 to 1. H. M. Ziegler has sold through trainer Charles Hughes to Milton Young, proprietor of McGrathiana Stud, for ,500 the three-year-old bay filly by Cushat Doo, by Matchmaker-Holy Bird. The filly will be retired to the stud and bred to Lamplighter. Captain Browns horses will be shipped to Louisville March 20 and from there to Mo ris Park April 1.
