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! , I i TENNESSEE THOROUGHBREDS. A letter of recent date from Nashville to Morning Telegraph contains the following interesting items bearing on the young thoroughbreds that may be expected from Tennessee within the next year or so : "Since Kinley Macks two victories in the Brooklyn Handicap and the Suburban, General Jackson is fully persuaded that Luke Blackburn mares are the real thing and hereafter his fillies will not be offered at public sales. Old Luke Blackburn is in vigorous health, and on his looks one would hardly believe that he has lived in the world a quarter of a century. Inspector B. is as frisky as a yearling calf, and looks almost good enough to go into training. "The sucklings at Belle Meade will be separated from tbeir dams much earlier this year than formerly. Some breeders think the powers of the dam are weakened by suckling her foal from the time it arrives until the first frost in October, and it may be that Gen. Jackson is of this opinion. A sale of brood-mares and young stock will take place at Belle Meade in the fall. "There are seventy-five sucklings at Belle Meade, half of them being colts. Duchess is with foal by Loyali-t. Her yearling by Titho-nus sold in New York for ,000. She has a foal at foot by Huron. Madison was bred to seventeen mares in the spring, while thirty visited the paddock of Loyalist. Some of the best mares at the Meade are with foal by Huron, full brother to G.W.Johnson, sire of Lieutenant Gibson. Huron is kept in the paddock formerly occupied by IroquoiB. his sire. "Maddalo. son of Prince Fouso, made his first ; season in the stud near Nashville, this year. Only three of Prince Fonso- get were trained and each proved a good winner on the track. "Addie C. II. . dam of Sidney Lucas, is thought to be safely with foal by Top Gallant. She 1 slipped a foal by Ornus last March. Addie C. II. is the property of J. M. Johnson, who is racing a string of horses on the Canadian circuit. Johnson bred Sidney Lucas aud -old him to ■ Thompson Bros. "Prime Minister filled a limited book at St. Blaise, Tenn.. this year. Irksome, a very fast mare in her day, and winner of many races, is 1 thought to be with foal by him. This mare missed to the embrace of Sam Weller this year. During her racing career she met the celebrated mare I mp a time or two. and had the honor of defeating her iu a race. Irksome is owned by Cumberland Parks popular secretary, J. W. Russwurm. who is ambitious to become the proprietor of a stable of good racehorses of his own breeding, "Bangle will go into the stud at Avondale 1 when they are through racing him. He is a hardy little horse, full of quality, and is of the 1 tribe founded by the immortal Levity. The famous mare Ida Pickwick is thought to be safely with foal by Himyar. the premier stallion at Avondale. Tommy Atkin- -ire. Masetto, is in the stud at this farm. "The yearlings by Ornus, soon to be sent to * New York, are a very handsome lot of young- - sters. Ornus is iriug big. .-trong looking colt- . OUMUKbBD ON BBOOKD PAOB. TENNESSEE THOROUGHBREDS. Continued from First Page. that can not fail to attract attention in the sale ring. "May Overton, who in years gone by bred and raced many a good trotter, has, it is said, set his heart on owning a string of racehorses. Two or three other local lovers of the thoroughbred are said to be seized with a like ambition. "It is thought that between 300 and 400 horses will winter at Cumberland Park, so as to be on hand for the meetiug in the spring. Many im-: j provoments have been made at the track this summer for the accommodation of horses and their attendants."
