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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. At the Bennings track Thursday Gwyn Tompkins sent his Columbia candidate Judith Campbell six furlongs in 1:151. He also schooled Harrow and Gum Honey over the steeplechase course. Harrow is the horse credited with a down-hill mile In England in 1:34J. He was brought to this country by John A. Drake, and was recently added to the Tompkins string. He takes kindly to jumping and is a promising chaser. Wishard sent three of his youngsters, Bob-adil, Jocund an.d Ort "Wells a half in 50 seconds. Mrs. Mellon went six furlongs in 1:181. Peter Paul, fresh from his western triumphs, galloped a half in 50 flat. The little fellow looks well in spite of his hard campaign, and is likely to have much to say in the decision of the events for which he is eligible. Mrs. Frank Foster and Minotaur worked six furlongs in 1:17, and Castalian, another Columbia candidate, covered the same distance in 1:16. Burch also sent Greencrest and Tepee, both candidates for the Grand Consolation, the same route in 1:17. "After the last race yesterday it was estimated that the victory of Pass Book cost the ring close to 5,000," says the New York Sun of Friday. "Wally Fessenden, once a well-known baseball manager and umpire, purchased the gelding some time ago from R. A. Smith for 3150 and predicted that before the season ended he would win a race with him. Yesterday was the day and Fessenden, who admitted that not long ago he handed over a 5 plug as payment for a j 0 feed bill, passed the word to his friends. He went through the ring betting 0 with each book at an average of CO to 1 and cleaned up, it is said, about 5,000. Other persons who had the tip kept on backing Pass Book, which opened up at 100 to 1, until at post, time 30 to 1 was displayed in a majority of books. Eddie Burke was caught for one bet of ,G00 to 6. George Rose, who took in a lot of money, singularly enough quit 6 loser to the race. A woman who sat behind the press stand all the afternoon was 00 loser when the fifth race was run. Then she sent 00 into the ring by her escort to be placed on Mart Mullen, the favorite, and 0 to go on Pass Book. She got 50 to 1 on the latter wager and quit ,400 winner on the day, a pretty thrifty performance for a woman." Mose Goldblatt is mapping out plans for his winters campaign at New Orleans. He has replenished his stock by the addition of a couple of useful horses and has signed a rider until after the close of the Crescent City meeting. TV. Watson, a colored lad who made quite a record at St. Louis last summer, will sport the Goldblatt colors for the next four or five months. "An owner without some sort of a rider, whether he be a mute or a star, is like a chicken with his head chopped off. He keeps flying up In the air and dont know where he is going to land," said Goldblatt yesterday. "I have been riding some of the so-called stars lately and their exhibitions have made me weep. "Watson is a clever lad and has the good quality of not thinking that he knows it all. He pays some attention to instructions, something which nine-tenths of the jockeys refuse to do nowadays." Cincinnati Enquirer. Judge Hamilton of Mount Sterling, Ky., has notified J. W. Brooks, manager of Ascot j Park, of his acceptance of the post of presiding judge at Ascot Park for the forthcoming winter meeting. Ed Cole will be handicapper and first assistant judge. Ed Jasper of Chicago is slated for the post of racing secretary and clerk of the scales, while chief secretaryship of the new concern is vested in William Muir, son of John A. Muir, who is one of the largest shareholders in the enterprise. This gives Mr. Randolph as good a staff of subordinate officers as can be found between the two oceans. Los Angeles Sporting Times. W. S. Williams, owner of Proof Reader, and son of J. T. Williams, of Checkmate fame, has bought for a long price of J. B. Haggin the four-year-old bay colt Juvenalis, by Juvenal Miss Maud. Juvenalis has been in retirement at Elmendorf Stud since his running in the Realization Stakes at Coney Island last year. He was badly cut down in that race. His preparatory work for that event was the fastest ever shown by a three-year-old trained at the Kentucky Association course. He was taken east to run in the rich event and first raced in a mile and an eighth race at Sheepshead Bay, which he won in runaway style from a field of fourteen horses. These two races are his only starts. Juvenalis long rest-up has enabled him to round to, and with him Williams will make a bid for all the big eastern handicaps next year. Trainer J. O. Keene, who handled the great colt, Irish Lad, in Russia last summer, may not return to that country next year. In a conversation at Cincinnati Friday, he said: "I have not yet made up my mind whether to go back or not. My suspension ends in May, but it is not that that is bothering me. If I can buy some good yearlings at Lexington I will remain here. There are only about five high-class stables in Russia, and the others amount to nothing. I narl the best three-year-old for two years. I naturally prefer this country, and I will remain here if I think I can do as well. Winkfield will be a great star over there. There is one other colored rider over there, that old jockey, Anderson, but Winkfield is easily his superior. I trained for Dr. Block the past season, and it was he who got me into trouble. Those dope stories were all news to me. Tf my horses were doped I had nothing to do with it. I was told that the officials of the Jockey Club took some of the slime from one of my horses mouth after the race and injected it into a frog and the frog jumped himself to death, but I know nothing about that. At any rate, I was picked out for a mark because I was a foreigner." Proceedings to secure the right to the services of Wallace Hicks, the negro jockey, came up in the Superior Court at New York Friday, counsel for A. J. Plicque appearing to oppose the application of Hamilton Wright of New Orleans as agent for the jockeys father, to recover the custody, control and earnings of Hicks from Plicque, to whom the boy was" bound by his father as an apprentice jockey. It is claimed by Wright that the contract was illegal and void for a number of reasons. An affidavit was submitted by Hicks, who is 18 years old, expressing his entire satisfaction with his present treatment and declaring that a decision to upset the contract by which Hicks was apprenticed to Plicque "would be in fact a re-establishing in New York of negro slavery and violating some of the provisions of ihe Dred Scott decision." Wright, he alleged, had brought the suit under an agreement with his father, giving Wright all the rights, powers and authority over the son that the father possessed. Decision was reserved. Green B. Morris passed through Chicago yesterday en route to San Francisco. He, has no horses at present but will probably pick up several by purchase while there and enter racing again on his own account. j J. L. McGinnis won about ,000 over the victory of Sweet Alice in the Union Handicap at Jamaica, Thursday, and then turned around and bought the game little filly from Lawrence Waterbury for that amount. j Mr. Edward Corrigan was in Chicago yesterday and departed last night. His brief visit was to inspect his big string of horses at Hawthorne, he having fifty tlfere now, including a big division of yearlings. Trackmaster Lyman Davis, of the Worth track, has been offered a similar position at Ascot Park, Los Angeles, but has not as yet decided whether to accept the offer or not.
