Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
HORSE TALK.

Twenty pools were sold last night for the
! tTOting race 10 come of this afternoon at {
P. NJ; Storm, first choice; Rusty Shilling
second; Country Boy, third; Nancy Gray
| fourth. POOl-Selling at the Merchants Elk.
change this morning at 10 O'Clock.
! George Rice has sold his half interest in
Annie B., by Lexington, dam Banner, by
| imp. Albion, together with her yearling
colt by imp. Bonnie Scotland, and her
sucking by John Morgan, to James Nc
| Cormack, Of New York, who is now sole
! owner. The consideration was 81, 900.
j. NJ. Nanmeter, administrator of the
late John Harper, sold, to satisfy a judg.
| ment, the chestnut mare Mamie McNairy,
by jeff. Davis, dam Lizzie McNairy, for
$3.50.
The time made by Mate, at Long Branch,
last ThuTsday,i in the mile and three
| quarters race with Spendthrift, Audubon
and GalWay-j:O6!-ha been beaten only
! once. Reform made the distance half a
second quicker at Saratoga last summer.
Mate, however, carried 105 pounds and Re
form only IS.
Concerning the perniciOus practice Of
giving out exaggerated and fictitious prices
at which horses are sold, that prevails to so
considerable an extent among h0rse-Oreed-
ers and Dealers the Spirit Of tie Times says:
$50 notorious has this practice become in
certain quarters, that but little attention is
paid to these reported prices by those
who are acquainted with the tricks of
the trade; but the general public, as we'll as
the novice in the breeding business, accept
them as actual measures of commercial
value, and the effect is to mislead as to
prices which generally obtain for horses of
a given character. II must be evident to
every candid mind that such a practice in
iuTeS the very business it is designed TO
foster. Hundreds Of men are deferred from
making an attempt to purchase Well-brcd
horses from the fact that the published
prices have led them to believe that such
animals as they want are entirely beyond
their means, and should one be offered at a
reasonable price they At once suspect that
there is something wrong
The following appears il the Turf,
Field and Farm Of the 18th:
"MAURY COUNTY, Columbia, Tenn
We have young trOting association here
and are not up III many things, and ask
your advice and decision in the following
The association offered paIses, on the I'd
Of July, for horses that never beat 800,
and for horses that never beat 2:J0.
A man enters the same horse in
bOthTaces and loses the 800 race in S:1l sos,
$40. There was a general belief that he
was pulling his horse, and the judges called |
him up and admOnisLed him for 50 doing,
but he claimed that he wys not pulling his |
horse and that he could do no better. In !
just twenty-five minutes he drove the sane |
horse, aud won the 2.5C race in 2:5l, EASE,
ESQ. The judges and the public feel very |
indignant about it. What can be or ought |
to be done in the premises? Is there no |
redress for a cOnfdiDg public? Again. ]
is a gentleman who goes half the |
expenses and is TO have half The |
Of Z horse a competent Judge /
for that race, although the association max
ing the judges know nothing about his ~,
Jerest until it is all over?
Auswer-"The INDIES. after they vera
satisfied Tat the horse was pulled in me
lrst race, should have fined the driver of
The horse and expelled him. They should.
also, have declared all bets of. He should
now be expelled. The gentleman having
IN interest in the horse or his winnings
vas not competent judge and should also
De expelled"