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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Word comes from New Orleans that unless members of Capt. S. S. Browns racing string at present engaged in striving for purses and stakes in New Orleans, show unexpected improvement in form, they will be sold to the highest bidder, and the 1904 campaign on western tracks will be started with the Memphis division of the Pittsburgers enormous collection of young and old horses. In retirement at Montgomery Park are fifteen head of coming two-year-olds and three-year-olds. The coming three-year-olds are Auditor. Proceeds, "Villager, Conjurer all colts, and the crack filly Audience, a daughter of Sir Dixon and Sallie McClelland, and they may be augmented by the addition of some members of the string quartered at present in the east. The two-year-olds, however, will form the bulk of the baby brigade that will carry the familiar cherry, brown cap, of Captain Brown, and they are a royally-bred lot. They have already been named, and the list in local training is: Clipper, b. c, by Troubadour Stars. Enchanter, br. c, by Sorcerer Euponia. Blue Bird, b. c, by Blue Wing Ethelpace. Valediction, ch. c, by Sir Dixon Malada. Kernel, blk. c, by Sir Dixon Nutshell. Broadcloth, b. c, by Woolsthorpe Grenadine. Signal Light, b. c, by Lamplighter Fal-lerna. Florentine, b. c, by Ben Strome Florio. Wing Coor, b. c, by Blue Wing Monadou. Much study has been spent in giving the youngsters appropriate titles, and bookmakers, players, board writers and such will not find cause for complaint when writing the names of the 1904 Brown juveniles. There are several members of the Memphis string of Captain Browns own breeding being sired by Troubadour, which won for him many stakes. Blue Wing, another present-day sire that was beaten in a head finish in the Brooklyn Handicap of 1887 by Dry Monopoly, is represented in the next seasons crop of two-year-olds by the appropriately-named Blue Bird and Wing Coor. Other neatly-christened juveniles in the Brown outfit are Kernel, whose dam was Nutshell; Enchanter, whose sire was Sorcerer; Signal Light, whose sire was Lamplighter, and Broadcloth, which was suggested by Woolsthorpe. During his visit to Memphis Captain Brown said that he intended to race on more extensive scales in future years than he had previously attempted. Many reverses met in the purchase of valuable youngsters, and many abuses which the Smoky City man of means has met with in the past has not dampened his enthusiasm for glory in the king of sports, and his return to the south has already caused enthusiasm on the part of jockey club officials who admire the true sportsman. W. Fuller last Friday shipped from New Orleans his stable of six horses, including the good filly Tokalon to his farm at Wills Point, Texas. It was expected that Tokalon would race at the Crescent City, and Fuller was confident of her ability to run over everything of her age at the meeting-, but the injury she received at Bennings this fall made it necessary to retire her for the rest of the winter. The "filly cast herself in her stall at the Bennings track and a match race that was then being proposed for her had to be declared off.
