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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The report that Grey Friar is coughing is incorrect. Several of Frank Hitchcocks horses have been coughing slightly and some few are still coughing, but Grey Friar was one of the first to recover and has not coughed for several days. He has been in perfect health since the early part of the J week. The ailment which has visited the stable has thus far prpved very trifling. Capt. S. S. Brown and trainer Peter Wim-mer are confident in the belief that the four-year-old Hyphen will come around again this year and wilL win some of the rich stakes for which he is engaged. When the son of Him-yar was shipped from Lexington to Louisville the other day, to await the arrival there of Captain Browns big stable from Mobile, he appeared to be perfectly sound and in splendid condition after spending the winter in the most comfortable quarters that money could provide. Captain Brown has always held to the opinion that Hyphen is an exceptionally great horse and when the colt defeated Major Daingerfield in the Brighton Derby last summer he was pronounced by many one of the best three-year-olds of the year, but he went wrong and was quickly thrown out of training. Captain Brown will probably allow Hyphen to make his first start just before the Brighton Handicap, for which he will be especially prepared. T. Burns may cross the Atlantic to ride an English Derby candidate. Burns expressed himself to this effect at Washington several days ago. He did not say what the candidate might be,, or even give a hint in that direction. He simply stated that he expected to go. Presumably "Skeets" Martin, I who has had an extended experience in England, would be Mr. Whitneys choice for the most promising of his Derby aspirants, but as that gentlemans Derby possibilities may be regarded as an unknown quantity, for the present at least, it is not improbable that he may be better equipped with eligible three-year-olds on the other side of the water than with jockeys to ride them. v, D. H. Barnes, of Chicago, who will superintend the building of the Kansas City Jockey Clubs new racetrack, has arrived on the ground. He will be there probably all summer. Mr. Barnes, it is said, is enthusiastic about the new track. He says the site is naturally one of the best he has ever seen, and that he believes the track .when finished, will not only be one of the best appointed in the country, but also one of the prettiest. The feature of chief importance at Clinton Park, Little Rock, last Sunday, was the work of Barca, T. H. Stevens Derby candidate. Carrying about his Derby weight he worked the mile in 1:45, with Mr. Stevens waving his hat at the boy through the last furlong to pull up. This is by far the best Derby work at Clinton Park this spring. J. R. Keenes three-year-old chestnut colt, Gimcrack, and W. C. Whitneys three-year-old filly, Girdle, winner of the Great Filly Stakes at Sheepshead Bay last fall, have been declared from the Metropolitan Handicap. Both were down to carry 96 pounds. These will probably be the last declarations from the race, unless some come from the west. The following named horses have been declared out of the Carter Handicap, to be,run at Aqueduct: The Regent, Knight of Gold. Money Muss and Contend.
