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TRAINING GOSSIP FROM WOODBINE. Toronto, Ont.. May 9. — The best mile shown at Woodbine this spring was 1 :4S*-j by the Ottawa Stables King K. This good-looking Sain horse is thoroughly seasoned, as be already has been to the races, and got home in front twice at New Orleans. Only one counted, though, as lie was disqualified for bumping. Oentlewoman and the two-year-old Waukeng. from the same stable, worked three-eighths in 37 seconds, which also has not been beaten in any Woodbine work this spring. From the Thorncliffo Stable, which will be disposed of by auction two weeks hence, the jumpers Star Cress and Matt H. went three-quarters, the former in 1:29%, and Matt H. in 1:24. Kight two-year-olds were worked in pairs, all going throe-eighths. Victrola and Graphic were timed in 37-.-.. Lovelock and Torment in 3*. Britannia and Incog in Mt% and Impress and Wishaway in 39.-,. The smartest work at the three -quarters distance this season was shown by Fountain Fay and King Hamburg, which went in 1:18%, the latter out about the middle of the track. The boys on Annine and Beehive were instructed to rate them along under restraint for three-quarters, whieh they did. witli jockey Warrington on Beehive. They were timed the half in S8fc, five-eighths in 1:07%, and three-quarters in 1:22. The two-year-olds Oriana and Iraline were miieh admired before and after going three-eighths in 38%. the former showing the liotter. She is a sister to St. Bass. While dwarfed by comparison with the giant daughter of Bassetlaw and My Maryland. Oriana is nevertheless above the average in size and quality. Bavarde and Capt. B. also went three-eighths in 38%. Charlie Crews Plater. Old Pop, worked three-quarters in 1:23%, in the center of the track, in company with Pepper Sauce, third in the race last year. Other works were: Astrologer, three-quarters in 1:24; The Usher, three-quarters in 1:23%: Am-phion. looking better than ever, three-quarters in 1:21%. pulling up a mile in 1:50; Will Cash and Meissen, halt mile in 53: Sarolta. three-quarters in 1:25; Tankard, three-quarters in 1:22; Audrey Austin, half mile in 52%; Gartley. three -eighths in 40; Crystal, three-eighths in 37%; Secal, rive-eighths in 1:07%; Perpetual, three -quarters in 1:20; Tar Brush, half mile in 53%; Ravencourt. three-quarters in 1 :20. Trainer Littlefield presented a grand-looking band of horses when lie turned the seventeen arrivals from Waterloo into their Woodbine quarters on Saturday. Many new faces were noticed among the help, whose ranks have been depleted by the call to anil-;. Out of fourteen stable hands thirteen enlisted and twelve of Hie thirteen were accepted. Boys who were leading horses last year --they are always boys in a raring stable-are now bearing rifles. Nine head compose the string of Brookdale horses that trainer Jeorge Walker brought down from Barrie on Saturday. Foxlet being an absentee. Like those from Waterloo, the horses wintered splendidly and there was never a suspicion of siekness since they went north last fall. Like other managers, too. trainer Walker has had difficulty in retaining efficient help, foreman George Grant and a number of other hands having lieoome soldiers. Lady Curzon and the Plater. McBride, have grown and improved greatly since last fall, and the latter has a much better chance for the guineas than the common estimation allots him. The unusual snowfall in March and the frequent spring rains have left the Woodbine eenterfield so wet that the schooling of steeplechasers will be done over improvised jumps set up in the back-stretch of the track. Among the horses meant for this branch are Star Cress and Matt H.. from the Thorncliffe Stable; M. Leroys Maid of Frome: Charles Millars Mausolus and Garisli Sun; Tom Birds Sea Lord; G. W. Beardmores Tropaeolum and Crystiawoga; Major Gaults Brush Broom: H. Giddings Hearts of Oak; W. G. Wilsons Jim ., and W. Obernessers Morpeth. Knees for Canadian-owned, or even Canadian-bred jumpers, may soon be expected to figure in the programs. Fair Montague is meant for the Toronto Cup and may not be started in the exclusively Canadian-bred events at the Woodbine meeting. To get the first and second in the plate and a winner of the Toronto Cup out of the batch of yearlings bought from Mrs. Livingston when Mr. Millar decided to go seriously into racing would not be doing badly at all. The Gorman two-year-olds. Rivermead and Woodruff, are said to be backward in work, and not likely to start here.
