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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. "Danny" Maher and Lucien Lyne, the American jockeys, returned from England last Friday, where they have been riding for "the past season. Maher won the Derby and the St Leger on Rocksand, and Lyne has Winnings of the Imperial Produce Plate and the City of London Foal Plate to his credit. Mike Lynch, who trains Rough Rider for P. S. Roberts, will take the old horse to Los , Angeles, and has entered him in several stakes there, including the cup. Lynch be lieves that his erratic horse will win some good races yet. The stewards at New Orleans have ordered that the entry of the mare Miss Golightly be refused on account of improper registration. The mare was registered as the sole property of L. G. Tate, but was entered under the name of L. G. Tate and Co. As soon as the ownership of Miss Golightly is straightened out she will probably be permitted to start. Jockey Nash Turner, who recently returned from a thoroughly successful season abroad, will not ride in the United States this winter. He has announced that he will spend the cold months at his Texas home, and will return to the European tracks next spring. John Fay is back in Cincinnati from Louisville, where he has been since the close of the Latonia meeting. He will keep his yearlings at Churchill Downs for another six weeks and then send them to Montgomery Park to be prepared for the 1904 campaign. "I had twenty-seven youngsters, but I got rid of ten, and now have decided to sell eight more of them," says he. "I was thinking of selling them at Lexington through the auction, but concluded to dispose of them privately." Fay says he will spend a portion of the winter in California. Depositions filed Thursday at Covington, Ky., in the suit of W. E. Applegate against George G. Perkins for the controlling interest in the Latonia racetrack give Mr. Applegates side of the controversy, now pending in the Kenton Circuit Court at Covington. Applegate has already admitted that he made a deal whereby ho purchased the stock from Perkins, paying for it partly in cash and giving his notes for the rest of the purchase price, and depositing the stock itself with Perkins as collateral security. Apple-gate, in his original petition, alleged that, when some of the notes were overdue, Perkins, without due notice, sold the stock to his son Gilbert for 30,000. The contention now is that the plantiffs, Applegate and others, are tendering the balance they allege is still due under the terms of the deal, and are demanding the stock. The principal deposition filed Thursday was that of Applegate. He states that the he first offered Perkins 50,000 for the stock, and afterwards raised this to 50,000 in cash and 0,000 to be paid in semiannual notes for five years. Applegate, in his deposition, states that Perkins knew who were in the deal with him. The names given are Emil Boulier, Henry Wehmhoff, Mark Simonton, Alex. Labold, Henry Ziegler, Charles Bollinger, Charles Grannon, W. F. Schulte and Ed Hopper. The deposition is quite lengthy, and is to the effect that the sale of the stock by Perkins to his son was done surreptitiously and without the knowledge of the plaintiffs, who stood ready to redeem the stock whenever it was placed on sale. Applegate claimed that he was prepared to pay the balance due on the stock, and did tender it. He said that he told Perkins last spring that he had a party who would purchase his interest for 00,000, but Perkins would not tell him what he would do. Depositions by W. C. Pierce and Mark Simonton were to the effect that they were watching the interests of Applegate, the latter deposing that he was prepared to look after the interests of Applegate and associates. Cincinnati Enquirer. H. D. Brown has shipped his stable to New Orleans from Bennings. In his lot is the speedy filly Tokalon, which was prevented meeting Alforten because of a slight ailment. Her complete recovery is a matter of ten days or two weeks, and she will doubtless be racing at New Orleans before the new year. Her going off at this particular time was a genuine disappointment to her owner, J. W. Fuller, the Texas turfman. Mr. Fuller values the filly highly and believes she is a particularly good one. Tokalon is another example of a cheap youngster developing into a good racing tool. She cost Mr. Fuller 00 at the Lexington sale a year ago. It is doubtful if her owner would take 0,000 for her now. - Doc Streett believes that he will get some good horses to handle for Mr. Keene in the west next season. The western turf is advancing at a rate that a good horse, at least, a good, servicable, medium handicap horse, one that can win minor handicaps in the east, is a valuable racing proposition out here. Besides the Montgomery and the Worth handicaps, there will be the coming spring the two 0,000 handicaps at Harlem and Hawthorne, and a vast number of condition events that a good horse that has not raced a great deal can get into. Streett has accomplished wonders with Mr. Keenes cast-offs, many of them cripples, and he thinks that now he ought to have a few good ones. The sale of thorouhbred yearlings from W. OB. Macdonoughs Menlo stock farm, held last Monday at the Occidental Horse Exchange, San Francisco, drew a great crowd and brought out some lively bidding. The list follows: Chestnut filly, by St. Carlo Geneva VIII.; M. J. Daly 75 Bay filly, by Bright Phoebus Haidee; J. Foley 150 Bay colt, by Sam Lucas Islington mare; V. Gilbert 350 Chestnut colt, by Magnet Chiffle; C. Young 550 Bay or brown filly, by Orsini Moonlit; J. C. Nealon 775 Brown or black filly, by Orsini Miss Brummel; C. Young 1,400 Bay filly, by Bright Phoebus Love-light; A. J. Molera 325 Bay filly, by Bright Phoebus Lux; J. Coffey ,. . 625 Chestnut colt, by St. Carlo Moldene; J. S. Givens 750 Bay colt, by Bright Phoebus Spinach; W. J. Daly 350 Chestnut colt, by St. Carlo Gold Lace; C. Young 1,800 , Bay filly, by Sam Lucas Peeress; A. J. Molera 159 The only other sale of the evening was that of Geyser, which went to Mr. Mallory at 00. Tom H. Blackburn, for years trainer of the racing stable of E. F. McLean, the Cincinnati turfman, who dropped dead in the timers stand at Oakley racetrack in 1897, has arrived at Lexington to purchase a string of horses and will return to the turf the coming season. The last horses Blackburn raced were Doncella, Gallivant and The Barrister, which he trained and raced in 1898. During his long engagement as head trainer for McLean, Blackburn amassed a I fortune, and this he invested in land in northern Ohio. Since 1898 he has been busy improving his property, and now having all his interest in first-class order he is coming back to the turf to race a string of horses in his own colors. He expects to buy seme horses at Lexington and Louisville, and will then go to California and get a few good breadwinners out of selling races. It is his intention to gather together a string of ten or twelve horses and begin racing them at either the Louisville or Latonia spring meeting of 1904.
