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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. A deal is reported to be under way which, if consummated, will result in the control of Baltimores historic race track, Pimlico, passing to a New York syndicate. The syn dicate is in favor with the Jockey Club, and the success of the present plans will mean that Baltimore will again return to the racing circuit, with two-week running meetings each fall and spring. For some years there have been periodical rumors that the track would pass out of Baltimore control, but at no previous time had matters progressed so far and so favorably to that end. It looks now as though the New Torkers will get the track, and that they will obtain possession within the next two weeks. The local men who have been identified with the track for some years past are supposed to be opposed to any change in existing conditions. Some who have been asked about the pend- , ing deal admit that it is pending and likely to be consummated. Jule Garson has decided to take his good filly, Silver Dream, to New Orleans this winter, and she will perform in many of the late two-year-old and early three-year-old j fixtures. She is a very shifty miss just now, and several horsemen are of the opinion that , she has more than one of the fixtures there at her mercy. She ran her five and a half furlongs at Jamaica Tuesday in l:0Gg, the track record, with 107 pounds on her back, and on that performance alone she will be remembered. Trainer "Bill" Smith is giving Eugenia Burch a careful "prep" for her stake en- gagements at Washington, and he promises to send her to the post better than she has been at any time this season. Wednesday morning, at Gravesend, she was sent along for a mile and three furlongs in 2:34. She was ridden by an exercise boy of goodly size and was well in hand all the journey. The filly takes kindly to a route and Smith promises that when she is uncovered in her four-year-old form she will be ready to pack weight and race all day. "P. J. Miles has changed his plans regarding his California racing campaign and sent his horses from here to Little Rock, whence they will be shipped to Hot Springs about December 1," says the St. Louis Republic of Thursday. "In his lot is the fast Esher filly, Excentral, who cost him ?3,500, and showed so well at the Fair Grounds over a route. Excentrdl has been entered in the Hot Springs Derby and other events. Cogswell has also been engaged in the longer events. Doctor Parishs horses and those of N. B. Tichenor and T. R. Madden have also been shipped to Little Rock, thence to Hot Springs. Several carloads more will leave the Fair Grounds for the same points in a few days. An acquisition to the Hot Springs contingent is Edward Ryan of St. Louis. Mr. Ryan owns some asphalt , mines sixty miles south of Hot Springs, and will have some good horses at the winter race meeting. Among his lot is Joe Frey, Icon and several finely bred yearlings by Troubadour and other sires. He has a jockey, J. Morris, under contract. Entries received to the Hot ! Springs stakes that close on Saturday have now passed the COO mark, and at the present rate will exceed all expectations." Leopold de Rothschild heads the list of winning owners in England by a small margin, but his- stallion, St. Frusquin, who ran" second to Persimmon in the Derby and St. Leger and beat him in the Two Thousand Guineas, heads the list of winning sires by so large a margin that it will be impossible for any other stud horse to overtake him at " Continued on fourth page. GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from first page. this late day. Mr. Rothschild is one of the most amiable gentlemen in all England and a confirmed invalid. His health is so poor that he does not see the horses run in one race out of ten, yet he bears all his ailments with fortitude and never once utters a word of complaint. Says a recent Los Angeles newspaper: Big Bill Knapp, the midget jockey at Agricultural Park, covered himself all over with glory on Thursday last by bringing in two good winners, Fox Lake and Erne, they being his only two mounts that day. He is the lightest weight at the track, but he rides with the courage of a Fortham or an Archer." "Walter B. Jennings, who took his horses to California more than a month ago, has made arrangements for "Jack" Martin to ride for him during the winter months on the Pacific Slope. Martin will start at once for San Francisco. Since the accident that incapacitated him in the middle of the eastern season, Martin has been far below the form he showed earlier in the year, and Jennings believes he will do better with a change of scene.
