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GOSSIP FROM BLUE GRASS COUNTRY Lexington Ky January 4 Irving H Wheat croft owner of the St James Stud accompanied by Mrs Wheatcroft and E C Uuff his private secre ¬ tary left here this afternoon for a trip to Oklahoma to lnsjKct his banks thence to Juarez to see his western string of horses iu action and then to his fiirm on St James Island British Columbia He will return to Lexington February 15 Bub May Catesby Woodford Foster Helm and Judge George B Kiakead left this morning for the Matugorda Islands Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi Tex for two weeks of shooting They will Ite guests of J II Waiuwright the Pennsylvania turfman turfmanIvan Ivan Fox of Philadelphia today purchased the thretycarold gelding Dick Coghill from It E Wilion The gelding will be used for crosscountry idiug aid hunt club racing