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, , , , . GOSSIP AND COMMENT FROM KENTUCKY. Cincinnati. O.. June 2:;.— Chalmers. Luke. Brios Sister. Liiiersou Cochran and several Other of the eligible to the rich Cincinnati Trophy Stakes, to be run next Saturday, are dateg extra well in training at Latonia for the rich event. Good judges still agare oa Luke as a urobabte favorite, but h" will hare his task cut out to defeat the -A 1 opposition to sight next Saturday. Secretary K W. Maginn will prorkle an extra goad card of overnight races as a setttag to the 44.444 two-year-old race, and Maaager .loiin Hachmeister expects the biggest crowd that afternoon that has seen a days sport at this course this season, with the possible exception of Derby Day. C. VV. Clark, of California, has three of his hroooinan s at LextegtOB. They are Cluny. by Salvation: Mairy Atteea, by Bright Phot has, and Villi I 111 . by Orslni. Cluny has not been bred this I seascm. as slie reaihed Kentucky in pact condition, and will be held over until next year] but the other two have been mated with Sweep, a Futurity winner. Alary Aileeu has at her side at prcsonl a handsome chestnut colt by Celt, and Vslerease has a chestnut aarHtei ally by that same son ol Commando. Mr. Clark has Antioch. Aliss ottiiious and several other broodmares in the stud in California, and in a year or so. he will have , quite a string of horses of bis own breeding to race. Dr. C. Cam has oiie to his home in Louisville to rest until carl] next week, when lie will leave for Batte. Mont., to olliciate as paddock Jadge. He will return to Louisville in time to assume his ■liit io as paddock Jadge for the fall meeting at Churchill Downs. .1. II. McCarren has four yearling* of his eara breeding at M. Stereos farm, mar Lexiagtoa, which he will shortly have taken 1111 and pal in training. Tiny are all by his own sire. Rapsbarg, a half brother to II iinburu. HaiMberg is still alive. ■ and doing stud service fur McCarren at the Stevens farm. Gearge B. Ott thinks that in the bay BBCfcHag colt b] Peep oDay — Big Goose, by Inspector 1;.. he has the greatest prospect for a sensational coll . of any he ha. yet raised. This colt is a half brother to Golden Eg«« the Clipsetta Stakes win- , nei of l.llil. Golden figg has been mated back to the sire of John timid and Daid Craig. Mr. Olts other noted mare. Meddlesome She. had no foal , this season, and. she too. has been mated with Ieep oDay Ihjs year. D. M. Irewiit has only aaa yearling this season. but he is proud of this youngster, and looks for her to be of Oaks caliber as a three -year old. She . is ■ half sister to his noted racer. T. M. Green, and is by Knight of the Thistle, the sire of the Kentucky Derby winner. Worth, an I out of Brer-greea, by ;. VV. Johnson. Her color is alack. Lvergreen also has this season a black anckling colt l y Dick Einiii.|l that is an exceedingly .Mid-lc«pkin youngster, and is highly regarded. Thai BUtre has been mated back to the sire of Frederick L. this year, as has also Miss Ita II. another mare by l.issak. which is owned by Mr. Irewiit. Miss Ball has no yearling this season, hut she foaled a handsome suckling bay colt this sprin;; by Out of Beach. James S. Hvorinan will train these youngsters for their Danville owner, hariag been his ; trainer for years. The tirst trainer to announce that he has a candidate for Kentucky Eadaraace Stakes honors this season, a- well as for the LouisvUle and Latonia lu rails, the three long distance events to be run the coasiag fall in Kentucky, is J. II. Baker, who has the three-year-old Texas Tonimie in his stria-1. Baker thinks this three year-old gelding, which is a son of the mil 1 1 ■■ Fill sire. Ieep oDay, i- just the kind of a hscBB to race well at anv distance from the can curse of two and one aaarter miles up to tour miles. He- says that in his work he has shown no disposition to tire, although be shows a tendency to sulk sometimes. He- thinks thai in a Ions; race Texas Toininie will run an bones! race all the way. Chitra. which graduated from the maiden class 1 last week, is the property of Desha Breckenridge, a prominent Lexington editor, who has thus made an auspicious beginning on the turf this season. 1 Sin- is a speedy Illy, and won lik.- a daughter of I 1 -11 icn that may race on. she is trained in tin- stable of T. C. McDowell, who is a briber in ll" to editor l.icekeniiclue. and is lh.. ninth two 1 year-old winner furnished by the McDowell stable I so far this season, P. J. Miles five year old gelding. Be. was siuclv 1 Improved bv his rest in Kentucky last winter, it be- : in:; the first time he was ever turned out for a I respite after being put in training as a two ve.ir 1 old by his breeder. Capt. L B. Cassatt, from whom I Miles purchased him. He is surelv a j;ood performer under liiilit welghl over a eoasaterable instance of groaad, as Ids recent two winning races here were both at teag distances, one betag a mile and a quarter ami the. other a mile and a half. Miles has a habit of dateg well with srilteg platen of the cheaper «r.-nlc.. He never has anything in his stable with much pretension to class, but he usually wins his share of races. Be seems to ana sess more early speed this season than ever Before, as in the two races he won here this season he went to the front, made all the running and always held his competitors safe.
