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FILLY JESSIE 0RMSBY IS DEAD. Result of Shipping Fever Other News from Blue Grass Region. Lexington, Ky., August 17. Sixteen weanlings by Star Shoot, sold this week by John E. Madden to Samuel Willets, former master of Meadowbrook Hounds, owner of Bright Home Farms, Roslyn, L. I., are said by the foreman at Hamburg Place to be an exceptionally good-looking band of youngsters. Ten colts arc out of the following mares: Court Maid, Falcon, Lou Blue, Offensive, Panto-mine, Plain Dorothy, Pedigree, Shelby Belle, Phew and Fair Atalanta. Six fillies are out of Decoy, Grace G., Kate D., Largo and Pamela. They will remain at Hamburg Place until next summer. Frank Bruen, assistant to general manager John Hachmeister, was here today in the interest of the stakes for the fall meeting of the Latonia Jockey Club, and met with unexpected luck. The best in training at the Kentucky Association course were entered. Little Jack Brown, who is under contract to E. R. Bradley, is back in the hospital and his physician says it will be five weeks before he can be out. He made use of his fractured leg before the bone had properly knit and it snapped a second time. William Martins two-year-old Plaudit filly, Jessie Ormsby, died here today as the result of shipping fever. Ed Crump, which was sent here from Saratoga by A. K. Macomber, arrived at the Beaumont Farju yesterday.
