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GOSSIP FROM BLUE GRASS REGION. Lexington, Ky., November 13. T. C. McDowell showed up a quartet of fleet yearlings at the Kentucky Association course yesterday. Bayfield, by Peter Quince Lucasta, for which Editor Desha Breckeuridge of the Lexington Herald, recently paid J. B. Ailey ,000, worked a quarter in 22f,, with about 130 pounds up. while three colts ran the distance iu 23 and 23VS. The Aoter Ladv Anne colt was the fleetest of these three. He Is the property of Mr. McDowell, and finished a neek in advance of the son of AVatercress and Pearl A., and the colt by Aoter Ecstacy. both of which are owned by the James B. Haggin estate, the former having been knocked down at a New York sale for ,100. Even intrastate shipment of horses is affected by the quarantine Commissioner John AV. Newman has ordered on account of the hoof and, mouth disease. Yesterday James MacManus had six yearlings loaded for shipment to Louisville and in the car with them were Iron Mask and Ed Howard, the property of Jefferson Livingston, which Herman Brandt Intends to put in training again. An order came to the express company to the effect that Henry county had been quarantined and that the horses could not be shipped through that county. Tlie horsemen are up in arms over the situation. They say that horses are not subject to the disease, and that, under such precautions as are taken with racing stock they are not liable to carry or spread It. Many of the horsemen say that the commissioners ruling is too drastic. II. A. Colt, of Geneseo, Ky., is here in quest of thoroughbred horses for cross country purposes. They are scarce. J. AA. May has lost through an attack of acute indigestion, the yearling black filly by Dick AVelles Obia. John E. Madden today sold Tory Maid to Miller Henderson, Plenipotentiary to John M. Goode, and Amazon and Grecian to AV. H. Baker. Relatives of Joe Elgin, son of Jeff Elgin, of Paris Ky., want him to come home. His father has been stricken witli paralysis and is not expected to live. The supposition is that Joe Elgin is at one of the race tracks.
