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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Recently trainer Frank Taylor has been giving McChesney only the easiest sort of work. He is brought on the Gravesend coui-se daily and is given a long gallop, but it :s some time since he was asked any speed question in his work, and the exercise is only what is necessary to keep him in the excellent health he is enjoying. The big son of Macduff and Manola Mason looks particularly well, but is far from a race, and already his five-year-old season is being talked of. He is perfectly sound, and the slight injury shortly after he was brought east has in no manner bothered him since it was pronounced cured. A dispatch from Memphis to the Enquirer of yesterday says: "The fastest time recorded by yearling thoroughbreds being asked for their first preliminary trials preparatory to the 1904 racing season was shown here this morning over the track at Montgomery Park. Two fillies owned by G. C Bennett and trained by Henry McDaniei were sent on quarter-mile journeys and succeeded in establishing the seasons record for the distance by negotiating the first eighth in a fraction under 12 seconds. The track was fast and the time made considered phenomenal, as it was the first time the Bennett youngsters were aired. Both are sired by Kings Counsel and constitute a part of the racing string Bennett will campaign next season." Fred Burlew and H. L. Hayman have matched their two-year-old colts, Hello and Orthodox, to race a mile, each to carry 115 pounds, for J1.500 a side, and the Metropolitan Jockey Club is expected to arrange a race for next week to enable the two horses to settle the question of supremacy. The owners want the association to add ,000. Before the race is announced it is expected that one other horse will be named to start, this to comply with the rules of the Jockey Club, which does not sanction match races. The third horse, however, will be withdrawn.
