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f CANADIAN TURF GOSSIP f s — $, TOBONTO, Ont, May 25. Encouraged by the success of Wych Elm, George W. Beardmore decided to increase his stable of steeplechasers, and this morning he closed a deal with J. A. Parsons for the transfer of the two green jumpers Press Gang and Jingle. These horses were turned over to John Nixon, one of the best conditioners of steeplechasers in the country. C. R. Fleischman has changed his plans and, instead of shipping to Ottawa, will race his horses at the Long Branch meeting. The Fleischman horses will remain at the Woodbine, and will be vanned to the Long Branch course when they race. Clarence Buxton was an arrival from New York this morning with four horses. The racers will be campaigned at the Ontario meetings. Johnny Kermath got in with Walter J., Salmons jumper Gunboat. Bayard Tucker-mans Bock of Cashel, which will go to the post in the Woodbine Chase, also arrived. Charles Mergler has been engaged to ride Gunboat, while B. Neander will have the mount on Bock of Cashel. Anmer, one of the Canadian Pacing Associations breeding bureau stallions that has been standing at the J. C. Fletcher Farm, will be transferred to Calgary some day next week. Before leaving for New York, Shelby Burch arranged with T. McCreary to ship the two-year-old Rapid Transit in the car that will transfer the Carlton and Sewickley Stable horses to Belmont Park. This consignment is due to pull out of the Woodbine on Sunday. While breezing a couple of horses this morning jockeys C. Grassia and J. Marr, collided and both horses went down. Marr escaped with a few bruises, but Grassia came out of the scrimmage with a fractured foot. Steeplechase jockey A. Kelly, who had rather a nasty fall in Thursdays jumping race, is confined in the General Hospital, suffering from internal injuries. Jockey R. Peternel, accompanied by John Walsh, a groom who came up from Maryland with the two-year-old Bapid Transit, departed for Chicago yesterday. They are making the trip by motor, and will join the stable of their employer, the Nevada Stock Farm, which shipped direct from Pimlico to the Arlington Heights track on Tuesday. Wrap, a chestnut filly by Trap Bock-Cloak, purchased by Kenneth Dawes for the account of the Mount Royal Stable at Havre de Grace this spring, won at the first asking for her new owners when she won a runaway victory in the Butland Plate. Ridden by Townrow, Wrap outran her opponents from the start and at the finish led Fair Beth by a length and a quarter. Wrap is one of the fillies destined for the court of the Broomstick stallion Cudgel, which is standing at the Mount Royal Stable farm at Vercheres. Jockey W. Harvey was fined 0 and suspended for the remainder of the meeting for interfering with Leonard B. in the stretch in the fifth race.
