. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 428 HOj& greeiter «t& gpGvt&mmu I May 28, 1898 ROYALLY BRED YEARLINGS. A ViBit to Belle Meade Farm, Nash- ville, the Home of Iroquois, Luke Blackburn and Long streetâ Five Thousand Acres of Blue GrasEâGallops of Yearlings In Their Paddocks, &c. New York, May 21st. Editor Breeder and Sportsman: Some three weeks ago I left Chicago by the favorite Morion ronte to Louisville. At Louisville I stopped over a half day to take a look at the horses at Churchill Downs, and witnessed such a work-out by Plaudit, the Derby colt, as to at once cause me to fo
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 428 HOj& greeiter «t& gpGvt&mmu I May 28, 1898 ROYALLY BRED YEARLINGS. A ViBit to Belle Meade Farm, Nash- ville, the Home of Iroquois, Luke Blackburn and Long streetâ Five Thousand Acres of Blue GrasEâGallops of Yearlings In Their Paddocks, &c. New York, May 21st. Editor Breeder and Sportsman: Some three weeks ago I left Chicago by the favorite Morion ronte to Louisville. At Louisville I stopped over a half day to take a look at the horses at Churchill Downs, and witnessed such a work-out by Plaudit, the Derby colt, as to at once cause me to form a very decided opinion of his proving a victor in the great race bo soon to be decided. From Louisville to Nashville is an easy run of less than six hours, that great trunk line of railway, the Louisville and Nashville, taking one along in rapid fashion. At Nashville, which I reached in the gloaming of a charming Sunday evening, I found turf matters very quiet, as the spring meeting had closed, and most of the visitiDg stables had left town. I understand that in spite of this spring meeting having been a loss, financially, dates have already been an- nounced for a year hence. The Nashville Country Club, headed by Ged. W. H. Jackson, will take an active part in trying to restore the prestige of the city as a racing resort. Who that has ever been to Belle Meade has ever failed to rhapsodize over its many charms of natural scenery and broad acres of blue grass meadows? While as to the quality of the horses on the place, their fame is wide- spread, for Belle Meade, as the home of Bon- nie Scotland, Enquirer, Great Tom, Ircquois, Bramble, Luke Blackburn, &c, has been prominently before the world as the senior slock farm of America, and the famous farm never looked more beautiful than it did the morning I rede out from Nashville to its hiE- .oric gates. Covering in all 5,300 acres of the finest land in all Kentucky and Tennessee, this blue- grass home of the highly-bred th
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