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GOSSIP FROM CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville, Ky.. September 20. J. S. Hawkins has traded his two-year-old tilly. To-To-Yo-Yo. to J. C. Milam in exchange for a two-year-old gelding by Resolute II. Hawkins worked To-To-Yo-Yo and she did not perform to suit him. Milam came along Just at the time and the trade was quickly made. Hawkins has not bought a single yearling yet this season, an occurrence that is uuusual for him, as lie has for years annually made liberal investments in youngsters. Frank Respcss was at the track yesterday and clinched the report that none of the horses of J. B. Kesposs. now raeing in the east, including the Kentucky Derby winner. Wintergrcen. will be shipped here during the present meeting. He even doubts if the string will get back west before the wind-up at Latonia. it being Respess intention at preseut to stick to the east until the season is over on the mc.tropolit-iu tracks. Frank says Marathon, the Eug-Hsu-brfd horse that raced so well in the Respess colors at Latonia hist fall, is with the stable in the cast and is training nicely. He has yet to race this season, but will do so soon. Marathon is now five years old, and has spread out a great deal sluce his last appearance in public. Cy Hughes has in his string a smart maiden two-year-old which belongs to turfman W. H. Liiudeman. who, in days agone. raced such noted horses as Curt Gunu. Palestine and Hernando, but the Tetcrau traluer doubts if he can race her here, as she has blicked on him since his arrival. "Thats the way." said he. "nothing ever happens to the bad ones, it is always those of promise that are giviug trouble. I have had a good deal of racing luck with youngsters, but I tell you a trainer that fools altogether with two-year-olds is not to be envied." Charles Van Meter may not race The Fad before Latonia, though the ton of Woolsthorpo is daily ou the track now, taking slow work. Van Meter says he has not appeared of much account since he raced at Kmpirpe City. Joe Morris, the Bashford Manor Stakes winner, shows no 111 effects from his eastern campaign, though, for some reason, he did not race as well in that section as on the Kentucky tracks.
