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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Nine yearlings, owned by J. E. Cushing, Minneapolis, Minn., which have been broken and trained at Lexington under the management of J. S. Barbee, for the ex-owner of Boundless, Lookout, Oakwood and other stars, have been shipped to Little Rock, Ark., where the Cushing horses will winter and do their first racing in 1904. The Top Gallant and My Gyps filly has done the best work, reeling off a quarter in 23J seconds. Several others in the collection, however, have gone the distance in 24 seconds. The list follows: Chestnut colt, by Top Gallant Mary M., by Muscovy. Brown colt, by Boundless Fortitude, by George Kinney. Bay colt, by Boundless May Bee, by Virgil. Chestnut colt, by Boundless Odulic, by Onondaga. Chestnut colt, by Handsel Peony, by Pow-hattan. Black filly, by Top Gallant My Gyps, by Kyrle Daly. Brown filly, by Oakwood Cora Bell, by Sensation. Brown filly, by Boundless Courtship, by Sir Modred. The announcement has just been made at L Lexington of the dissolution of the racing firm of Engman-Wilkerson, and the entire .racing stable owned and controlled by them .-will be sold in the coming sale of W. T. .; oodard. Engman, who is famous as the ItefMder of the 0,09 Hermis, will not retire, but race a string of horses next season, his stable being headed by Tootsey Mack, the half-sister to Hermis. Among the horses to be sold in this sale is the colt Major Pelham, a prominent 1904 Derby candidate. The Hot Springs stakes that close Saturday next will have a record-breaking entry if the long list of nominations already made by horsemen is any criterion. The free entrance fee to the stakes has helped to bring liberal responses from St. Louis owners, who are represented by more than 400 entries. J. C. Cahn heads the list with forty-five nominations, including some grandly bred yearlings by his imported stallion Bitter Root. These youngsters will run in the two-year-old stakes at Hot Springs. Barney Schreiber has also entered several by Sain. Balgowan and Bannockburn. When other eastern and western horsemen are heard from these totals will be more than doubled. Tuesday the following ruling was made public by the stewards of the Jockey Club: "At a meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club, held in the appartments of Mr. James R. Keene at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday, November 9, 1903, Mr. L. V. Bell was fined 00 for breach of discipline in the clubhouse of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct on November 2, 1903, in his treatment of the official handicapper of the Jockey Club. Algernon Daingerfield, "Assistant Secretary." That Mr. Bell would be punished for his outbreak at Aqueduct was a certainty from the moment of the offense. On the whole the penalty inflicted is light, the stewards, no doubt, giving weight to the fact that Mr. Bell was laboring under extraordinary excitement when he made his verbal attack on handicapper Vosburgh. Mondays arrivals at Montgomery Park increased the winter colony of the thoroughbred horses at Memphis to almost 300 head. The yearlings which will comprise the major portion of the 1904 racing strings of J. W. Schorr, Charley Ellison and E. R. Bradley reached the track from Lexington and will be weeded out after their final fall trials at short distances. The members of J. W. Schorrs older string which raced in the east since early spring also arrived, with the exception of Monastic II., Dutiful and Mordella, which were left at Jamaica in charge of Albert Simons. The latter trio will be shipped direct from New York to New Orleans to race during the winter.
