New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-25
Mau Orleans Daily Grqastel1t.
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wEr,ySEst,Ay MORNING, ApisIf Is, 1865.
Northern Hacc IxSrscs
Tfshin d circuit Of thirty miles Of New York are
ocated most of the training quarters Of thorough
breds Id the Northern States. One Of the report
ers of the New York Times has lately been visiting
some of these stables, which are now IN active
preparation for the spring races, and gives, in the
ssue Of the Times Of the 10th, very animated &C
connt Of the blooded stock belonging to Colonel
MoDaniels at seacancMs New Jersey. We copy
portion Of his description Of some Of the horses
belonging to Colonel Nc Daniels:
Leading the lot il 0aksand, 3 handsome, vel
urnished bay ,sx year Old, BY RevenSss oaa q
mare the Queen, by Priam. Oakland y Iacns
ookipg animal, Hailnping in fine, iree style. ana
bringing to onr recollection the spienela ssst AZ
which thanks 70 the fine riding q ~
der, On whom long odds were laad. ID Isau y. aniy
ust On the posi- after magnificent hn1sas IN Y
tered for the Inauguration stakes 4! foTaham.
i sreat fonr, heat race for which twenty
NJ 5horouahbreds, The nsstin America, have en-
r@1awing close 81 aiis heels comes Eachuntress
beautifully shaped xacing Ike chestnut. one year
II 4 t:slr I'M lexington, dam Ellen Bateman, by
jameasa with such d pedigree we expect some
sh;n sotl. for me cross between the B0stnn blood
sI,fI Iifo Glencoe mares almost invariably snlcks
AZ n bfssasrs term II and We ars net ds saI
Action eeits the admiration Of the spectator. She
M once last year as twoyear old, at the Ginein
nasi Fan Aeeting. when she Was beaten BY bay
colt Me,aSa. BY Lexington. out Of Miriam, IL q
1ni,e dash. in this race Enchantress was second,
bsaken by q head, with three others behind her,
and her defeat was attributed to the wretched
nanser III which she was ridden the time was
1:57, snd the track very heavy and muddy she
AasH flanA e<SFf ~ ou6 Gin
has been ID Col. McDonald's care she has SO
steadily improved that he thinks very highly OF
erxchnnne Of winning the American Blue Ribbon
OF the Turf Jersey Derby at Patterson
next June, as well as the st. Leger Tor when she
entered .
Following Hi comes the three year-old Marshal
anderson, q hay colt BY Lexington out Of Ariel,
1 he dame the feet Western thres.year-oIu peia-
respiratory organs the distenper has seft Its mark
hut which be wiil probably outgroW. He belongs
IL the ewner of Enchantress.
Close upon his heels comes q powerful DARK
chestnut horse, whose coat shines like satin. and
which ii N SgstlocE. = Eve year old ~ Mahomet =,
out III Prunela, the dam of those feet sisters tx
lie and Sympathy. Nighst0cE won Two races o. tne
Mesa spss
falling away in the fal, be was put ~ npraie
ulnpinc, and ran third Ia Mamie Graddock 81 Eat
erson. This spring he looks 50 blooming and me
fllat his owners Mesers Evans and Francis, Of
4 Hoboken, are going To eive him another chance at
M, raninr ani then. III unatcc he Will be
trained d d steeplechaser, for which hin size and
action admirably A. him. M y.
q{,,d Jill yeas DID. BY Albion, dam BY imported
fayisthasl, and consequently own brother to Frank
Gheathani.5 He has plenty Of bone and power,
and hs owner, Mir. Page, Of ths city, u lends him
Or hurdle racing.
with The clever coored rider Albert in the saddle.
comes bright bay colt, without single white
mark about him except small star in the fore
Head, His splendid action when extended gath
erng his feet well under him. his free and easy yet
powerful stride Immediately attract the attention
The Colonel answers our inqniring glance BY
informing that the colt ID question Is Ripley by
i'd. Davis. dam Nina By Boston, . most nne keep.
Enable pedigree, for jeff Davis was the sire Of
Thine, one III The fastest aud stoutest mares that
er tTod the American turf, and whose defeat Of
3 renowned Planet in the great fonr-m heat
ne, Charleston, 8. 81, made such an impression
ent home and took to his he'd from sheer annoy
ance and vexaton, while Nina was the dam d
Planet himself Such nnian could not fail te
produce q good one, and Ripley, We feel assured
will do husrar to ms breediug. He is sOmeWha
coarse about the hooks; but this can hardly b
termed defect. He gallops low and close to TIL
ground. aad ~ he rapidly gains upon and passe
the horses in front Of him IL is easy to see that 4
has the foot 81 them all, with perhaps the singl
exception OF the golden chestnut FLY with whit
hind heels, who holds her own gailantly. RIPPLE
4 > not engaged il The Derby or St. Ledger at Pa'
era0n. but the Colonel shows the high opinion b
has or him BY entering him for the Sequal Stake
md emp at Saratoga, and the great four-mie hea
race for the Inauguration Stakes at Fordham. Col
McDaniels owns him.
The lengthy and somewhat 1eggy mare tina
thunders up the tomestretsh. and passes the STAND
1T rattling gallop, is Lady BteSslngf0n, q i've
+ year, old bay mare, BY imported Eclipse, dam
Fito bv Mariner. She was lame all last year, hut
uxrfectIy sound now, aud stands her feparatiOn
Of going, betokenlng speed OF no common order.
y She ii engaged In the Saratoga Cup and Inaugural
ton stakes at Fordhan. Like the four year old
chestnut ly that fnilpws her, by Arlington out OF
Oakland's dam, she belongs To Col. McDanieis.
b The chestnut colt, whose three white legs make
him conspicuous as be galiops past US. is by Mo-
hogan out Of Boston mare and Though small, il
Z handsome and good mover, as is also the three
yearsald blaek tiliy alongside him, by imp. Eclipse
ont nf the Greek Slave BY Glencoe. The lattel
hel0nga to Messrs Evans and Francis, and is en-
gagged In the Patterson Derby and Ut. Leger. Tha
brown fly with white feet behind, coming np r.
\ IIargTaYe mare she has u racing.like look, an
moves nicely al she gallops past; she 10 in til
Jerome stakes at Fordham.
9Thair gallon ever the horses return to thei
@ stables are rubbed down, banketed, and led on
n for gentle walking exercise around the orchard
circle. iii the meantime We take q look at the tW
year oIds, and two colts by Breckenridge attrac
or eyes Ehe first II 9 strong Weil-deyeloped %.
like training on into Il fine, well furnished colt
The other IL ont Of q Monarch mare by Brsckin
ridge. mud Il a bright bay, very good looking AMI
promising III appearance. They are both engage
a tke Paterson MI Lager Of 1867, and the Nurser,
Stakes At Fordham this year. Mir. r. 3. Read own
them. 8sss M
Time md space prevent us from describing thl
fine l1t 0f brood horses and yeRrlings which th,
colonel owns, and which he showed u.s.; amonl
the latter III one w Planet, dam Adegiza. 10
which lid recently refused $4,000. But we must men
ton Il fet nf recently arrived carriage and saddl'
II hofaes fran Kentucky, which for beauty, styl'
and lofty carriage We have rarely seen eqnaled
There are two match teams Of carriage horses
bright baYs and inst steppers, that cannot be sur
passed for graceful action, and some adniiratl.
broken saddle horses for ladies', which wouii
create d sensation III THE park. There are now il
Active training III the eolonels stables, eighteen
Il tbprough breds, and more are daily expected. Th
4 Spring Meeting On this course commences on Til
I9tsof June next, aweek after the Patersc
meeting. N
The Feats nna Freaks ~. = Strong nIan.
Thomas Topham, the strong man. was borl I
MI London III II To-. aud was bred a carpenter, hu
afterwardss travelled On the MUSCLE He was
quiet FeAceable man, of middle size and weigh