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; ; 1 GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The California contingent has arrived at Bennings. Yellow Tail and his fellow-travelers are now safely stabled there eating their oats as placidly as if they had not taken a 3,000-mile trip across the continent. Imperious, winner of the Burns Handicap of 1900, when the track was a sea of mud, is with Yellow Tail. So is Bon Mot, a Haggin cast-off, owned now by Dr. Rowell. It is the second time in his career that Yellow Tail has gone east. W. L. Oliver arrived on the same car with Dr. Rowell. Lord Badge, Lone Fisherman and Gaviota are Olivers horses. He also has several fair two-year-olds. There are now 205 horses at the Bennings i track. Every hour will see the list added to. Horses from the north, east and south, and a few from the west, will drift into the Na-! - tional capital before another week elapses. , Assistant Secretary Daingerfleld has received 1 CONTINUED ON SECOND FADE. GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from first page. applications for 700 horses for the spring meet. Of course, not all these will be seen . in races, for many owners wish to take their candidates there for the early work in prep-paration for the campaign on the metropolitan circuit. But the "Washington Jockey Club has been compelled to use discretion in the matter of granting stable room. It desires to accommodate all horses that may be seen in the events there, and if stable room is left after the actual runners are quartered all other horses will be taken care of if possible. The turf colony at Bennings was further augmented by the arrival of the Daly string, which left Gravesend several days ago. "Father Bill" will have twelve or fifteen horses quartered there. Daly is one of the most unique characters who participate at the Bennings meeting. His ability to win one or more races during a meeting is a foregone conclusion. Sometimes he captures a good share of the purses, but last fall he had to be content with only one. This year he has another dangerous candidate in addition to Himself. This is Daly formerly called Cuspidor, whose work at the Brooklyn track has been very good. Then there is the two-year-old brother to Ramapo, named Lorillard, which is said to be a good one. A San Francisco correspondent writes as follows about Siddons: "Siddons" victory of March 7 in the Pacific Slopes "Waterhouse Cup Handicap was by no means the first exhibition of staying ability on the part of the five-year-old son of Wadsworth. Entirely irrespective of other conspicuous instances which might be quoted, Siddons was a winner of Californias Thornton Stakes, over the thoroughly old fashioned route of four miles, and it is significant to note that recent dispatches from the seat of war indicate a repetition of that victory in the coming Thornton renewal. Siddons", who is now a five-year-old, is by Wadsworth Cut of Modjeska, by Buck-master. ThisWaIiance is at least interesting, and, indeed, i tliink it may be justifiably credited with no small measure of importance and significance to those whose interests are indissolubly associated with the breeding industry."
