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t CANADIAN TURF GOSSIP £ Klmcr James has transferred to J. E. Smaiiman the contract he held on the clever apprentice Horace Gwynne. Young Gwynne, alert at the pest, v/ith a good seat and nice hands-, is said to be one of the best judges of pace among the younger riders. The transaction involved a sum said to be the largest paid for an apprentice in Canada this year. W. H. Wright, in whose colors the good three-year-old Itoyal "Watch races, has thirteen horses in training. He has a like number of brood mares at his farm at Earrie. Ont., where there are three yearlings and seven foals. The three yearlings are from French marcs purchaad at Saratoga last summer, -while the foals are by the imported horse Spey Pearl. The M. E. "Wilkcrson and O. F. Burkart horses were shipped to Ottawa Sunday night. Clarence Buxton ships the horses he sent to Thorncliffe Park back to Belmont Park today. Buxton was unable to obtain stalls at cither Ecng Branch or Connaught Park, hence his return to New York. The Justa Farm Stable is shipping ten horaea direct to the Blue Bonnets course. Where they will rc rt up until the opening of the meeting. There appears to be a big surplus of horses in Canada this year and many of the owners are unable to find stabling accommodations. The J. E. Smaiiman stable, including Ifeeraa, Quick Return, Hoi Polloi, Clear Sky and other useful racers, were shipped to the YVnidsor track yesterday morning. WampeOb winner of the seventh race Saturday, was claimed by J. G. Kiswirth for ,500. The horse had been sold at private sale before the race to V. C. Trover, but ran in the colors and interests of C. Buxton. George Miller packed his traps and shipped direct to the old Windsor track Sunday morning, where the R. I. Miller horses will be rested up until the opening of that meeting. Nat Byer wrote William Woollatt that he was shipping a dozen horses from Belmont Park to Windsor some day this week. In-eluded in his band is the vselul mare Dear Lady, the property of Mrs. F. Musante. Louis Angevii.e, secretary of the Montreal Jockey Club, returned to Quebec. He reports that the outlook for a successful meeting at Blue Bonnets is extremely flattering. It. I. Miller, owner of Pauline Jj., Not Guilty, Rim, Rolland and others of the stable of his brother, George Miller, made a harried departure for Washington yesterday. He plans to return to Canada for the opening of the Windsor meeting. Miller has closed with E. E. Bradley for a season to Black Toney for the mare Pauline L. and one to o;th Star III., for the mare Xot Guilty. These mares will be shipped to Kentucky next spring to be bred and will then be raced until fall, when they will be retired at the Daviea farm at Thorncliffe, the idea being to make the offspring eligible for the Kings Plate. Miller closed a deal viih Nat Byer a few days ago for a sister to Courageous by Broomstick — Courage. This marc will be bred next spring to Tryster. V. Kelly, who is in charge of the jockeys room at the independent tracks, reports that some sixty-five jockeys will be at Long Branch. Among the latest arrivals of jockeys are G. Seabo, R. Zucchini and J. Tcvie from Hamilton, Ohio, and K. T. Mcore from Aurora. ; j Charles P. Henry, who fills the position of racing secretary at Aurora, which closed on i Saturday, was a vistor at Thorncliffe Park ! this afternoon. Milton Knright, manager of the mutuel department at Long Branch, Iiufferin Bark and Kenilworth, was an ariival.
