Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-02
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TENNESSEE FAIR-THE STUD -THoRoUGHBRED STOCK
AND COcKTAUS-TENNESSEE HORSES, ETC.
From the New York Spirit Of the Times

, TENNESSEE FAIR-THE STUD THOROUGHBRED STOCK
AND COcKTAHs-TESNEssE HORSES, ETC.
From the New York Spirit Of the Times
Dear spirit II attended the Fair on the blood
horse day, at Nashville. 1t was a magnificent
cess The crowd was estimated at 10000. There
were four five hundred dollar prizes Mr.. Alexan-
der took two of these-one with Durham bull, and
the other with Scythian. The blood-horse exhibit
ton was very fine one The Colonel (full brother
to Bill Cheatham,) Daniel the Prophet Highlander,
Childe Harold, and Commodore (by Boston, out of
the dam of Reyenue,) were all shown against Seyth-
ian l voted for the son of Boston, but as there
charm in the word imported was out-voted, and
Scythian bore off the prize. Commodore is very
much like Revenue every wayne is almosta fault
less horse. He appeared to little larger every
way than MS halfbrother Revenue. The officers of
the Fair are elegant gentlemen, but they are wrong
about thing; they do not permit the Judges to
see the pedigree of the animal shown Gen. Vim.
e. Harding, Gen. L.. j. Polk Col. Frank Cheatham,
Morgan Vance, and myself, are all opposed to this
pan we all believe the Judges are entitled to ell the
light that buyer would require. They ought to
have the form of the animal its performances color,
pedigree, and everything else that throws light on
the value of the animal shown What sensible man
in the United States would buy a blood horse, be
cause three men said it blood, without giving
cross in it, Why then exclude from Judge light
which every buyer demands, and will haveg They
select three gentlemen to pass the pedigrees; they
are told if animal has the seven first crosses pure
the animal is entitled to be shown as blood animal
What sensible man is there in America or England
would say such animal was to compare with one
like Reel Nina, with every cross in them pure for
sixteen or seventeen generations Such an animal
in England would be called cocktail and would be
entitled to run in cocktail stakes which are intend
ed solely for impure and inferior ANIMALS, and from
which all thoroUghbreds are excluded. Iheard one
of the best-nformed breeders in Tennessee, Gen L.
j. Polk, say he would never judge again in ring,
unless the whole pedigree of every animal was ex-
hbited. The directors of the Nashville Fair are
nice Intelligent gentlemen and | writing this
for the good of the public and their Society, hope
they will change this rule. l hope Mr.. Williams,
their Secretary, will publish this communication in
his youthful and popular Journal the So,heT7, Home
stead that all the directors will be enabled to
it. believe they want to do right.
How does S. d. Bruce come on with the Stud
Book l do hope he will do his whole duty. /.
want him to nail all the eountereits to the counter
and let none but pure ccin circulate The United
States lave been damaged more than a million of
dollars by breeding TO horses with whitewashed
pedigrees. The public good requires of Mr.. Bruce
that horses with spurious pedigrees should be ex-
posed. hrstrate Stud Book would do more to
enhance the value of blood stock than any publica
ton that could be made Among our Tennessee
stations he ought to mmortalize Barry's Grey Med
ley, Wilkes Wonder, Pacolet Tennessee Oscar, PacI-
ic, and LeTiathan all of these stood in Sumner
county except Pacific. They have done as much to
improve their race or species any horses in Eng
land or America according to the opportunities
which they possessed. Gen. JacksOn's horse TruX-
ton also pure horse and one of mastery rae
ing powers, and his blood told plainly in Osceola,
who was the best four mile horse in Tennessee of
his day. He used up all of the Leyiathan stock he
met with badly. The LeViathans were horses of
great strength and breed. but defective breath
ers, and almost universally let down very early.
However, he beat any horse, guess, that ever was
in the United States in the great number of his win
ners. For years they almost beat down all com
petitors in the State of Tennessee, Alabama Mssis
sippi and Louisiana. II is said his books show r
profit to his owners of 100000. His mares are
great breeders, especially when he was crossed on
the old fashioned hard bottomed crosses of Citizen,
Medley, Sir Arehy, Sir Charles, Wonder. PacOlet
Oscar and Pacific. The latter demonstrated the inn
portance of blood more than any horse ever saw
he deformed, having no two legs alike, and yet
he one of the best stations ever owned in Ten
nessee. think he was better breeder than his
justly popular brother Bertrand. will wind up
by giving the pedigree of the finest and stOutest
sucking | ever saw. And if john Randolph of
Roanoke. was alive he would pronunce his pedigree
the best in Europe or America 1t cannot be beat
| would not take 81 900 for hin. Meteor, foaled in
April, 1860 was gOt'by O'Meara. his dam Premium,
by Imported COnsol, his second dam by Woful, his
third dam Allgretta by Trumpator, his fourth dam
Young Camilla by WOOdpecker, his fifth dam by
Trentham ; his sixth dam by the Compton Barb, out
of an own sister to Regulus, whO you will recOl-
lect, never was beaten, and who won seven four
mile races in one year. He was one of the most
popular stations of his popular sire the GOdolphin
Arabian. Albion. Fisherman and Lottery, all run
back to Young Camilla. Omera was by Glencoe,
dam by Leviathaa, out of Imp. Gallopade.
rrf- B. OF TENNESSEE.