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. GOSSIP OF THE TURF. v There will be no lack of stable accommodations - for the horsemen who. race at Kin-loch this year. Last season many of the , thoroughbreds were compelled to stable outside the track. Three hundred new stalls are now being built, and they will be completed this week. Already there are over 100 quartered at the track, and. many are ex , ! - pected from the Fair Grounds and Little ; Rock. Stable room has already been re- 1 served for the following owners: Barney Schreiber, John S. Bratton, George L. Lang- don and Co., James R. Keene, George Bennett, 1 "Doc." streett, S. C. Hildreth, Charles Ma- ; hone, Louis Lemp, J. U. Strode, Sidney Bender, U. Z. DeArman, Edward Burrows, Finn and Ross, J. K. Hughes, Brewer Anderson, J. C. Cahn, R. W. Marks and Co., J. C. Ghio, Tur- : ney Bros., P. J. Nolan, R. M. Westerfield, John Blardone, W. L. Lansing, K. D! Orr, W. Charles, R. F. Meyers, S. E. Parmer, M. Goldblatt, J. C. Tucker, G. R. Louden, W. D. Bernhardt, J. N. Miller and Co., F. D. Weir, John Dockery, Frank Gering, J. W. ONeall, H. Mack, P. Hale, F. K. Newton, T. A. Gay and Co., G. Summers, Captain R. R. Rice, A. P. Doyle, T. T. Cromwell, J. Gardner, Gum-berts and Powers, C. A. Ross, Rogers and Sons, J. Cochran, J. E. Burnett and Co., J. Aber-nathy, Steward and Co., F. W. Wallhauser, W. O. McGuigan, R. T. Niles, Cole and Co., E. E. Smathers, Durnell and Herz and J. D. Dear-ing. Advices from the old Gloucester racetrack in New Jersey, where Frank Farrells stable is under the care of trainer Frank Weir, are that Blues is a better and bigger horse than he ever was at any previous stage of his career. This speedy but erratic son of Sir Dixon now is carrying more flesh than he ever did before, and in the opinion of good judges who looked him over recently he should come to the races a horse of high class. On his running there is no telling how good Blues is, and, by the same token, there is no telling how bad he is. The good horses that he has failed to beat have had to give their very last ounce to beat him. On the other hand, he has been beaten by horses that scarcely could win a cheap selling race. Trainer Weir, while going along slowly with him, is confident of having him ready to fill his engagements, and he believes that he will give a good account of himself. Duelist is the stables only eligible candidate for the Carter Handicap, to be run at Aqueduct on the opening day of the racing season in New York, and he has been going along so well that he probably will be seen at the post in this event. The most promising two-year-old in the string is a colt by Esher, of which trainer Weir entertains great hopes. Daily America. The Beau Brummell of jockeys; the charming widow of a famous jockey and daughter of another, the sweetness of an early love revived a romance of the track. In such strain twittered the little sparows building their nests in the eaves of the Bennings grandstand yesterday afternoon as they looked down upon jockey Tommy Burns and Mrs. Dottie Clawson, widow of Dick Clawson, the former jockey of William C. Whitney, who died several years ago of consumption in Phoenix, Ariz., whither Mr. Whitney had sent him In a vain quest of health. The pair were together at the track yesterday and have been frequently seen together at the theatre and other places since the meeting began, and other birds of rumor besides the sparrows have been saying for some time that the end of it is to be a quiet little wedding before long, which will be, if it occurs, quite the fitting sequel to a long cherished attachment, at least on the part of jockey Burns. Some years ago, it is haid, when the petite widow was Miss McLaughlin, daughter of Jimmy McLaughlin, the once famous jockey, who is now a well known trainer, Master Burns was desperately smitten with the young woman, and was only prevented from declaring his feelings by the news of her engagement to his brother jockey. After Clawsons death, it is said, Burns thoughts reverted to his early attachment, and he determined to win the widow as he had wooed the maid. Frequently, it is said, during the last winter, registered packages from the Golden Gate, where Burns was riding, conveyed assurances of his regard to pretty Mrs. clawson in New Orleans, where she passed the winter, one of the most popular of the guests at the St. Charles Hotel. Burns will ride this year for Mr. William C. Whitney, as did Mrs. Clawsons former husband, so if the present meeting of the pair should happily fructuate into a wreath of orange blossoms who could say that the wedding bells would not ring in time? Evening Sun.
