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ROUGH TRIP EXPERIENCED FOREIGN EQUINE ARISTOCRATS ENCOUNTER DELAY IN CROSSING THE ATLANTIC. Cold and Stormy Weather rinds the Horses Without Blankets and Supplies of Provender Insufficient for the Voyage. Now York. December IS. The Atlantic Transport companys steamship Mosaba :irrivCl at New York yesterday with eight thoroughbreds and a polo stallion for F. Ambrose Clark. The animals had a rough experience, the boat being three weeks in completing a trip which hail been expected to require less than two weeks. Tin? groom in charge of the animals said, however, that the animals had stood the trip well, considering the adverse conditions. They were shipped with a supply of hay which was estimated to be ample for sixteen days, but as they were nearly twenty days in coming over, they w re on short rations for the latter days of the trip. The stock foreman also says, they were shipped without blankets, with the exception of the polo stallion, and his blanket was a rather thin one for such a temperature as caused the water to freeze in their water troughs. When they were about five days out. a chestnut colt, wbich appeared to be the best of the yearlings, was taken sick with pneumonia, and had it not been for tin; efforts of Dr. Martin, a veterinary surgeon from Wyoming, who volunteered to take him in hand and look after his welfare, it appears probable that he never would have reached New Vork alive. Dr. Martin anpealed to the captain, who succeeded in finding a limited supply of light blankets on board, and these were served out to the animals, while the Mesabas stock foreman and the groom who had been engaged by Mr. Clark to look after the shipment, spent the greater part of three days and nights in watching and caring foe the pneumonia patient. Of course, no blame can attach to Mr. Clark for the evidently careless and slipshod manner in which these young thoroughbreds were shipped from Loudon, and it is probable those responsible for the carelessness will hear from the American purchaser on the subject. Tim three-year-olds in the shipment consist of a light chestnut colt of good size, a neat-looking steel gray colt, a black colt, a bay filly and a black filly. A bay filly and a chestnut filly, both of good size, complete the hand.
