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SOME NASHVILLE HORSES HORSESThe Horseshoe The Spring meeting at Nashville begins April 1 consequently it will be the first Western meeting of real importance This lends interest to the following bits of gossip from a Nashville correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune According to the Memphis folk there is nothing worth talking about outside of Montgomery Park but having seen all the best ones there at New Orleans and here I am in ¬ clined clinked to believe that a certain Nashville trained colt is the equal of any that is likely to be sent here to try for the Prize This colt is no other than Pacemaker Neither Presbyterian nor Isabey Isabel has any advantage of him in looks and yesterday I saw him reel off eight furlongs in 1 46 with his head swinging in the air like a bell clapper in motion The get of Kantaka Kanaka have not been especially noted for their racing qualities but this son who is out of Debut by Pat Malloy Mallory is certainly a colt much above the average He is not so large as Presbyterian and lacks some of being as rangy as Isabey Isabel but for all that he is built on admirable lines Awhile hisspeed hissed and courage are Of a high rder order rderBangle derange Bangle a sureenough screening Derby colt has been declared out of the Prize and the chances are that he will be late making his first start of the season anywhere He will not start at Mem Memo ¬ phis Aphis Bangle has been unfortunate in getting hurt hut they will have to almost kill him to destroy his usefulness as a race horse for he is made of iron ironThere brother There is another Memphis colt that has got his name in the papers by reason of his prepa prepay ¬ ration for the Prize This is the Iroquois Ogarita Bogart colt that they call Opaque He has never been started but he is certainly a good looker and as he is by an American bred derby winner out of a sister to the dam of Gotham Goth he is expected to race well On looks at least I would pick him over all the rest but the fact that he is a maiden not having been trained as a twoyearold toehold there is nothing left but to figure him in the uncertain class classEugene class Eugene Leighs Sleighs twoyearolds toeholds are coming to hand nicely though three or four of them ap ¬ pear to be more forward than the rest There are two fillies in the string that promise well for the season having shown unusually fast in their work The King Alfonso Crucite Crucible colt is a better looker than a doer He is a well propor proper ¬ tioned toned youngster but has not yet given any in ¬ dication diction that he is entitled to rank among colts of stake class But many a good colt has been slow to show his worth and this one may be of that sort Three or four of the youngsters in Leighs Sleighs stable have worked halves in 50 with ¬ in the last fow flow days but it should be understood that the Cumberland Park track is unusually fast fastHiram ashram Hiram Scoggan Slogan will ship twelve horses from Louisville for Cumberland Park March 25 J W Schorr Scorer Son have telegraphed to have three stalls reserved for them Stanton Tucker will ship three Tom Hayes three and Simms Sims Lowry Lowery four horses to Nashville March 26 A train load of horses will leave New Orleans for forashville foresail ashville Nashville this week
