view raw text
GOSSIP OF THE TURF. "Capt. S. S. Browns return to active racing in this section will be heralded by turfmen and jockey club officials with pleasant anticipations, and the Pittsburg millionaire will probably enjoy the distinction of furnishing the winter favorite for a trio of Derbys," says the Memphis Commercial Appeal of Nov. 29. "The Brown string, at least a portion of the stable which will race in the west next spring, is in winter quarters at Montgomery Park. It includes Auditor, Proceeds, Conjurer and Audience, a quartet of two-year-olds that are extensively entered in everything for their age and sex in 1904. Proceeds and Auditor are already mentioned for the Crescent City Derby, and it is more than likely that Auditor will receive his preparation for that race by trainer Robert Tucker. The Crescent City Derby is the first of the western Derbys" to be decided and it will be followed by the Arkansas Derby, Tennessee and Kentucky Derbys. From present indications Proceeds will be installed favorite in the winter booking on the Tennessee Derby. English Lad, property of Fred Cook; Burns and Waterhouses Rock-away; Fred Cooks Fred Leppert; John A. Drakes Ort Wells; John Fays Ed Tierney; J. W. Schorrs Monastic II., Moharib and Sweet Gretchen; Barney Schreibers Otto Stifel; W. F. Schultes Batts, a colt that won several races on the Canadian circuit; E. R. Thomas Pulsus; E. E. Smathers Dick Bernard; M. H. Tichenors Flo Bob and Flower King and several belonging to Corrigan, are the best looking on paper that remain eligible for the Tennessee Derby. The list of elig-ibles for the Kentucky Derby is about the same as in the Tennessee Derby, and Captain Brown is well represented in both contests. In the Tennessee Oaks the PiUsburger is represented by Audience, Sweet Givtchen, J. W. Schorrs fast daughter of Flying Dutchman, is also a proposition that will engage winter attention of the hot stove ring." An American bred yearling colt by Russell Brandolette sailed for England last Saturday, on the steamship Minnehaha. The colt is to be entered in all the two-year-old stakes in England for which he is eligible. G. S. McDonald is the owner of the colt, having purchased him from "Snapper" Garrison, part owner of the Manhattan Stable. Garrison bought the yearling at the spring sales for ,750.. The colt is considered by many horsemen to be a stake colt of high class, as he has shown some fast quarters this fall. Superintendent Clare, of Brighton Beach, has been doing considerable work on the steeplechase course this fall, and it is promised that when the races open next spring the course will be an excellent one. Last season there was a great deal ofcom-plaint about the course being heavy, and it is to make it firm and safe that efforts are being directed. In the reconstruction of the course last spring it was necessary to place a lot of new material, and it never became solid .and properly firm by reason of the weather conditions.
