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RENAISSANCE OF BASCOMBE. Extensive improvements are in process at the Bascombe race course. Captain S. S. Brown, of Pittsburg, owner of the proporty, has instructed his agents in Mobile, Messrs. McMillan and Harrison, to have the stables, barns, cisterns, cottages and outbuildings put in thorough repair, the work to bo finished as soon as possible. The stable building, which has thirty roomy box stalls, beside feed rooms, hay loft, accoutrement rooms and sleeping rooms for hostlers and stablemen, is to be reroofed. new guttering installed, the stalls aud barns repainted, the stables and shed walks relaid with fresh clay and tamped and graded. The mile race course is to be regraded up, its drains and ditches opened, cleaned and rotiled, and the track put in first class condition. The expanse involved in this renovation will entail a very heavy outlay. The reasons for it, so far as known, are that Captain Brown has decided to again make Mobile a wintering place for his stable, which now comprises some of the highest class race horses in the country. Beside the produce of his own stallions, Troubadour and Stuyvesant, the Pittsburg horseman has been one of the heaviest investors this year in high-priced and fashionably bred yearling foals. It is stated that twenty-five head of these youngsters, along with some of the best of his coming three-j ear-old colts and fillies, and one or two older horses are to be sent here next month in charge of Captain Peter Wimmer, who, since leaving Mobile in 1891, has made a reputation as one of the most astute trainers in America. He has achieved phenomenal success in handling forEastin and Larrabie, the great handicap horse of the past decade, Ben Holladay ; he trained Kinley Mack, the only horse "which has succeeded in winning both the Suburban and Brooklyn handicaps in the same year, and he also trained the great mare Imp during her closing winning year on the turf. At the Bascombe course are now quartered the four yearling foals bought by William J. Foley, of this city, at the thoroughbred sales in New York in September of this year. Mr. Foley is receiving many congratulations for his judgment in selection or his good luck in the acquisition of four finely bred and handsome young horses at a low price. Having been here only about four weeks they comprise a handsome group of thoroughbreds. These are now taking the primary lessons in their life game getting broken to the saddle, learning to walk and trot and to behave well. Mr. Foleys horses are: Jockey Joe, b. g, 6, by King Cole Lillian G.; bay colt, 1, by Eshor Washerwoman, by Spendthrift; brown colt, 1, by Lamplighter Louisiana, by Longfellow; chestnut filly, 1, by Russell Queen Lab, and chestnut filly, by Onondaga Marmora. Mr. Chris Prichard, of New Orleans, has also three well-bred horses at the Bascombe stables, which he is preparing for business at the New Orleans meeting which begins next month, and these are reported as doing well in the work that has bo far been demanded from them. Mobile Register.
