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LOCAL TURF GOSSIP. My Jane, which started in the opening race yesterday and finished second, is reported to have been backed heavily in the pool rooms throughout the country by S. C. Wagner, her owner. The filly ran a good race and in the last furlong appeared to be a certain winner, but in the last fifty yards tired fast and Trompeuse had no trouble in heading her to the wire. The latter is reported to have worked five furlongs recently-in one minute fiat, and ran yesterday like a filly which might prove herself more than the average racer. The Washington Park officials announced yesterday that the infield gates would be opened Saturday, and spectators permitted to view the races from the infield. Captain S. S. Brown, the owner of a number of horses racing east and west, was among the spectators yesterday. Royal Arms, ridderf by H. Pollak in the 1 first race, fell while going around the first turn. The jockey and horse escaped injury. 1 Trainer Phillips received permission from the judges to run Fred Leppert in blinkers in the Quickstep Stakes. Phillips told a num-ber of his friends before the race that the r youngster was one of the fastest that he had ever put a saddle on, his only fault be- - ing that he was a rogue and would not ex-• tend himself. "If," continued Phillips, "Dom-■ inick can rouse him up, and make him run, it is only a question of by how far he will win." J. B. Respess three-year-old Bernays, f -which, finished third in the American Derby, was recently given a work-out in preparation Y for the Sheridan Stakes and pulled up very v -sore. His owner since has done nothing with I the colt, and it is almost a certainty that he will not be a starter. Jockey Troxler was sent for from St Louis - by T. P. Hayes to ride Anne Davis in the t Quickstep Stakes. The filly, although finish- log- close up, performed below expectations. Troxler returned last night to the Mound ; City. I
