Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-09


The sport yesterday was all that the
most fastidious could desire. The day was
splendid-neither too hot nor too cold.
The winds were silent and everything was
not only pleasant but inviting. In the
whole history Of the Nashville Course,
there has seldom been as large turn out.
The only exception that we now remember
was more than twenty years ago, when the
great horses Peyt0na and others we're pitted,
and the stakes involved hundreds Of thou
sznds The ladies' stand was rnnning over,
and the other parts of the grounds were
crowded with the best population of the
city. The occasion was not only brilliant
in all respects, but grand. The crowd, the
races, the perfect good order were all
wholly unexceptionable, measured by any
standard anywhere. Every man on the
cOnrse was gentleman, and every lady not
only an ornament to the social circle, but
personally beautiful and attractive. Under
their smiles the horses themselves walked
with nobler mien, and ran with greater
speed and more enrapturing grace. The
Association has made the Nashville Course
a success, and hereafter the horse that
enters here "to win" must come with the
certainty Of not only doing his level best"
butof competing with the best records ofthe
entire country.
Our track has never ranked with the very
fastest but the horses that have taken our
purses have uniformly taken them else
where. Our experience has been that after
every overflow (Which brings a deposit Of
sand) the time has been slow but the per-
formances Of yesterday shows that blood
and intrinsic mettle overcome all obstacles,
and the day in orr racing calendar will be
marked with "White stone" and held in
remembrance as such.
FIRST RACE.
This was the "Green Stake" for three
year olds that never before appeared in
public. There were six entries, and five
started-three colts and two fillies-the
colts by Hidtcathd, Highlander and Bleak
Wind, dams coming from Eclipse, Shamrock,
and SoUereign-the two fillies by Jack Ma
lone, dams from Wagner and arabian Sax
lOlrie. Such an array of untried colts of
such blood has seldom met on the Ameri~
AIl AlIl anu But OiiE was AlotdANOAS anu
she a runt, having each leg covered with
knots, from which she was named KnOtty.
The sale of pools was unique. The night
before the first pool sold as follows First
choice, Bleak Wind, $l5 second. Hi9hlan-
der, SIS; third, Hia'Uathd, (PdtrieiuR}, $ll;
fourth, Wagner, FLY, ViOJa,) $40, and
sSdLl01Uie, SIS. This recast all previous cal.
citations, and Viola became the favorite
with one exception in all the Association
pools Of the evening, HiatCatha Pdtrieidn)
contesting for second, and odds TO latter.
Go the track things changed and Highlan-
der was favorite, while HiaiOotid, Biedk
Wind and the Malone- Wagner filly were
much mixed-MaIORe-S dklOlcie in the dis
lance.
First Heat.-The animals all came out
in full feather-Bleak Wind having the
track, and the others ranged thus: High
lander, Hidleathd and the two Malone fillies
outside. They got off well together, Bleak
Wind in the rear. First turn he recovered
and went TO the front, and contested with
Viola and PatriciGn, Highlander and KnOtty
constituting the reserve. Two or three
brushes were made, but it was no go, and
the Bleak Wind colt came home under a
pull, In l:51A, the rest in the order given
in the summary.
Second Heat-After the first heat pool.
selling was a drag, and Bleak Wind sold at
the rate of four to one against the field.
MANY ayailed themselves Of the odds to in
vest and "fall." Yet the animals were all
"well to do" and still determined. Bleak
Wind was the horse to beat, and the effort
10 do it was most beautiful and earnest, but
a failure. Viola fell back TO the fourth de-
gree, while Pdtrician rose to the second,
and Hidwatha to the third, and the red flag
in the distance" obscured the vision of
little Knotfy. But like Cinderella 10 the
play, she did not eomplsin, and may yet
wear glass slippers" Time, l:4et, which
was most satisfactory.