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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. W. Redfern, father of jockey Arthur Red-fern, is pleased at having made a good engagement for the young lightweight to ride at Los Angeles. The Redferns were expecting to spend the winter months in southern California, but Redfern, Sr., recently received a communication from Joseph Yeager, asking for terms on the jockeys services for the "Los Angeles meeting, says Morning Telegraph of Wednesday. Redfern wired his terms, which were accepted without further dickering, and, as Yeager has some good horses in his stable, the jockey should win a lot of races in the Teager colors at the southern California track. It looks as if Yeager, who made his debut as an owner of any note this year, will have ;about the best jockey riding In California .during the season, as Redfern has certainly shown that he is back to his old form, and Jmus recently been riding the kind of races tfeat earned him so much favorable comment last winter and spring. When he received his bad fall last spring at the Aqueduct track he was laid up and unable to ride until the Gravesend meeting, and seemed afterward to have lost his good form. He had rather a bad run of luck all through the summer, but has of late come back to his own, and is now fit to make the star rider of the Pacific coast when he goes there. The five mares W. S. Barnes, of the Melbourne Stud, mated to the dead King Eric last year, the horse now so famous as the sire of Dick Welles, were: The Lady in Blue, by Himyar British Blue Blood, y Bendigo. Fun and Folly, by Jim Gore Lady Jack, by Hayden Edwards. Sunnyland, by Fonso Savannah, by Sid-dartha. Switzerland, by Jim Gore-7-Lady Jack, by Hayden Edwards. Trinity, by King Alfonso Vendu, by Virgil. The produce of the latter will be either nearly a brother or sister-in-blood to Rome Respess colt. Eleven of the mares in the Melbourne stud are sure in foal to Handspring this year.. William C. Whitney, owner of the La Belle Stud, has consigned to the Fasig-Tipton Company, for their December sales in Lexington, the stallions Ballyhoo Bey, winner of the Futurity of 1900; Intruder, half brother to David Garrick, and Lissak, the sire of the many-times Derby winner Claude. He has also consigned eighteen broodmares, which will be sold at the sale. A consignment of thirty yearlings, the get of Star Ruby and Golden Garter, has been made by J. B. Haggin.
