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MORE THOROUGHBREDS COMING OVER. New York. DecemlsT 88. — On the steamship Manhattan, due Ivecemlier 29. there are n-arly seventy head of thoroughbred horses, mostly yearlings, coming ■" from the Newmarket sales, with a few older BSfsen, of which Baumgarten is said to be betler •* than the average. This oue is in the band liouglit 111 by ;rant Hugh Browne, which numbers seventeen in the consignment. Among the remainder are rt. six hciougng to EL P. Wbitiifv. six or seven of „f Clarence Ha keys, six for Frank Hitchcock, seven .„ of J. T. Wideners. and eight coming over for ;l a Thiladephia owner, whose name could not be learned, but who is said to be a member of the |R. banting net. T. A. Clark, well-known in the financial world 1,1 of New York, is a newcomer or. the turf. He is is getting a stable of imputed horses together, which ch : re o] ecl.-d here in a day or two. They will stable de at Belmont Tark. The horses brought hero on the Minnehaha by hy Oliver Johnson, which arrived last week, are the ■snperty of an English owuer. They will be sold Id by private treaty. Mr. Giffotd Cochran was an interested examiner .r of Mr. Mackays yearlings today. He si»ent nearly 52 two hours Poking them over and will probably l e one of the many bidders next Thursday nignt * N arly every hors,. has been entered in the stakes to lie run in this c untry in t:ieir respective classes. *• The fillies have been confined to the stakes for their Sex chiefly. While the horses of the sterner Ml lx have been" nominated for the richer events.
