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BELLE MEADES MEADS OWNER General W H Jackson the most picturesque figure in the racing world arrived from Nash ¬ ville vile on his way to Mackinac Mackinaw whore in com ¬ pany panky with his daughter he will sojourn for some week then take a steamer for a trip through the Iqwer Liqueur lakes to Buffalo N Y YThe The The great breeder of thoroughbred horses and cattle is of a personality most striking A man over sixty years of age he is as sturdy as an oak and about his shaggy eyebrows and seamed fea fear ¬ tures tues lurks a robustness of mind quite in keeping with his splendid physique The general too in voice smile and manner betrays beneath the civility of a gentleman of the old school traces of that which causes a man to be called a good fellow and one can easily imagine that the proud possession of the Belle Meade farm might be the reincarnation of that solid old burger present to the mind of the painter of the mid ¬ dle dale ages when he portrays an ideal scene of right royal comfort as the old cronies of the village assemble of an evening at the tavern there to discuss the vintage of the year taste the juice of the grape and watch the smoke of the long pipes ascending to the rafters groan ¬ ing King with everything good for the stomach of mankind mankindA mankind A lord of the manor may with truth be styled a man who lives on the finest farm east of the Rocky Mountains Belle Meade has 5500 acres and hill and valley stream and ravine afford facilities for raising everything that man or beast may need In his stately mansion sur slur ¬ rounded by his family General Jackson can well say I would trade places with no king on earth Here in this home surrounded by grand trees lovely flowers and pastures second to none on the face of the globe the recollec recollect ¬ tions ions of generations crowd the memory for General Harding Hoarding Mrs Jacksons Jackson father re ¬ ceived cleaved the place by grant from the government and throe generations have here first seen the light of day dayBut day But it is as a breeder and judge of the thor ¬ oughbred outbreed racehorse that this contented happy old soldier is now before the public so listen to what he had to say as he chatted with his young fellowtownsman fellow W I Cherry in the paddock at Washington Park ParkWe Parker We had an unusually good sale this year considering the war times and the forty head of horses sold off the place averaged 500 the largest of the year number considered and there were several fillies in the lot and you know they lower the average price somewhat Bob Rose bought one filly however for 1600 because she is a full sister of a colt I predict will later on lower the colors of Jean Beraud Bead until now considered the best of the year Rogers Roses colt is by name Lothario and he is by Longstreet Longest out of Brunette the dam of G W Johnson and Huron I tell you he is a grand looking fellow much superior in type to Jean Beraud Bead who is a stocky kind of Bonnie Scotland made horse horseNow horseshow Now of the western twoyearolds toeholds there is no question but what W Overton Overtone is the best But when one is talking of race horses there is only one His name is Hamburg and I never saw so great a horse He is constructed on the pattern of the winners of the Epsom Derby lengthy with a round barrel and plenty of room under him Why he does not seem to touch the ground and for all the world like Tammany and Longfellow seems to skim through the air airHave airwave Have I seen him run Surely I have I saw him win over the 1 58 miles of the Realization course What a day that was Mephistopheles himself had taken it into his head to grace the occasion and there he was with his jagged flashes of lightning and his peals of thunder Old Boreas Boras was another of the judges and he sent in such blasts as one would think capable of blowing us all to glory Then Neptune took a hand and overflowed the course Yet nothing seemed to fit better that grand racehorse Ham ¬ burg than all this turmoil storm and mud He set a killing pace from the start quite ran all the other horses off their legs and won away off being stopped ten yards past the winning post postOn piston On October 13 14 15 at Belle Meade I shall sell thirtyfive thirty yearlings forty weanlings and seventythree seventy fine brood mares among these being a sister of Hamburgs Hamburg dam Tulla Tulle Black ¬ burn and Fairy the dam of a colt sold in New York this spring for 2000 There will also be disposed of thirty fine Shetland ponies and a whole lot of Jersey heifers Oh there they go to the post The old feeling comes over me Let us go and see the horses run
