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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Barney Schreiber, Missouris favorite son on the turf, arrived at St. Louis from San Francisco last Friday. Mr. Schreiber never looked so well in his life. He said that he had quite a good season in a financial way, though he has had better ones in California. He had three books on all winter, and still has them. Phil Hammel, Frank George and J. J. Carroll are his representatives. The owner of Woodlands is much put out over the sickness of his horses at Little Rock. The entire stable has been very ill. Geheim-niss and Otis went especially bad, while Semolina and Otto Stifel, the crack two-year-olds, are even worse off. Schreiber does not expect much out of the Little Rock division of the stable until late in the summer. He has, however, ten good two-year-olds at the Fair Grounds, and a division at the farm, which will be raced at Kinloch. Speaking of racing in California, Mr. Schreiber said that Mr. Williams had given them a splendid season, that money was plentiful and racing excellent. Mr. Schreiber regards Williams as a master hand in racing, and thinks that his organization, the New California Jockey Club, is so strongly intrenched on the coast that there will not be any displacing it. St. Louis Republic. Stable room at Churchill Downs has become almost a nightmare with Secretary-Manager Charles F. Price. Though the meeting at the Downs is one month distant, every stall at the famous course is either occupied or has been engaged, and stable room about the course is now at a premium and almost impossible to secure. Mr. Price has been compelled to refuse stable room to two horsemen. C. Hellebush i wired from Memphis requesting room for ten horses and C. Elmer Railey, of Lexington, wrote for eight stalls for as many thoroughbreds, but Mr. Price was compelled to refuse both applications for the simple reason that he did not have any place to put the horses. Had these men applied earlier for stalls they would have been accommodated, but the demand of late has been so great that there was nothing else to do but refuse the request. Fred Foster paid a visit to Sheepshead Bay last Sunday for the purpose of renewing old acquaintances and having a look at the thoroughbreds. Mr. Foster still has Dr. Rice stabled at Hoboken, and, although he has had several liberal offers for the horse, he has not decided yet whether to sell or to breed the great thoroughbred himself. The mare Samorou, which recently foaled a colt by Saraband, has been sold to J. F. Hays, terms private. The mare is of high class, and would be an acquisition to any breeding establishment in the land. She was sold individually, and Mr. Foster retains the recently foaled suckling for himself. Mr. Foster has no immediate plans for the future, and will take his time before returning to Austria to resume his racing there. Turney "Bros, are now at Kinloch, St. Louis, with their string, and have rented a cottage near the track. There are about 150 horses at the track, many stables having shipped horses needing a rest after New Orleans. The track is in good condition, and being twelve miles from St. Louis, trainers find it better for their employes than one within a few minutes ride of the city. Kirby Orr is there with a string- from New Orleans, and a small bunch of young Texas bred two-year-olds. Burrows and Covington are on the way east with twenty horses from California. From Little Rock all of the Schreiber horses that are not fit to race will be sent to the farm for a rest About twenty are suffering from catarrhal fever, and, of course, including the pick of the stable, like Geheimniss, a filly thought to have every three-year-old filly stake at her mercy, and might have had a look-in for some of the other three-year-old events. She is said to be little more than a skeleton, and may never race again, certainly not this year, unless very late in the season. Mr. Schrei-bers two-year-old colt Leopard, by Foul Shot Voralia, is said to be more than a fair two-year-old, and won handily at Clinton Park. Foul Shot is considered a failure in the stud, but each year he has two or three high-classed ones to keep him from being retired. Jockey Robbins, the clever little lightweight under contract to J. Follansbee this year, met with an accident at Memphis Sunday morning, which will keep him out of the saddle for some time. While skylarking around with some boys he broke the wrist of his right arm. Last winter while exercising Oronte at New Orleans he fell and broke this same arm. and it has always bothered him since. Robbins was taken to town, and his wrist set and left later for Chicago in company with his mother and Mrs. Arthur. E. Trotter has purchased of McNulty and McDerment the chestnut gelding Censor, which the latter claimed from Sam Hildreth recently. The price paid was said to be ,800.
