Wichita eagle., 1889-09-15
THE BLUE GRASS REGION.
ITS GLORY SUNG BY COL. GOOD
LoE, OF KENTUCKY.
How the Breeder of Fine Blooded Horses
Lives and Enjoys His Life Gentle
man Should-Some Interesting Informa-
ton About Breeding.
Especial Correspondence

man Should-Some Interesting Informa-
ton About Breeding.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, - -~~HCor,e Up stairs
with me- said First Assistant Postmaster
General Garrison at Chamberlin's the other
day, land 1 will show YOU splendid speci-
of the Kentucky gentleman. Like the
Kentucky horse which he loves 50 well this
gentleman is thoroughbred He has all the
strains and Qualities Of the racer, which YOU
will understand when ! tell YOU that the
blood of the Gays flows in his veins Col.
Goodloe, Of whom / speak. lives in the out
skirts of Lexington There he has the most
beautiful home ever saw. The grounds ara
filed with al the trees and Towering shrubs
that will grow in that latitude and SOIL and
their name is legion The drives, walks and
paths wind in and out. The house, built
many years ago by a rich Englishman, has
all modern co1veuiences combined with true
Kentucky homeakeness> Broad, a-ched
galleries run around the house, the floors Of
these being beautifully tiled. The hospital
ity dispensed here is fairly princely
Il speak OF this because it is type Of the
hospitality which all that region of Kentucky
dehghtsin Down there everything Is dropped
for dinner party. II there are visitors u
Cinner is given every day. Guests are
brought from Louisville, from Cincinnati,
from even more distant towns. The Ken
tuckian who will not let business take care of
itself, rack his dress coat into a valise and
board the cars TO go to dinner party is not
worthy the name OF Kentucky gentleman.
a..
or Others are crying for him. They take
him from house 10 house, from dinner party
To dinner party The Blue Grass region Of
Kentucky is emerald on the bosom OF one
of the fairest states in the Union The peo-
pie who live there take more real enjoyment
cut of life than any other people IN the world
of whom | know anything. l know Of no
spot in which / would rather live. Take the
home of Col G-oodloe for example When
you wake in the morning there is colored
man to help you dress, to polish your boots,
70 supply your every want. All day long 1t
is the same. Wherever YOU turn there is a
colored servant to attend you, and they are,
when properly trained, tue best, servants in
the world Many of tlrsse were formerly
slaves who could not be induced to leavo the
old place. Col. C|oodloe keeps four times Us
many servants as he needs, simply because he
does not like TO drive them away Around
the house are the thoro1yhbreds, grazing and
playing like pet dogs. Col. GOODBYE has four
daughters, each as beautiful as a dream and
every one a horsewornan Of Ss1h and daring
In Kentucky the women know horses almost
as we'd as the men and love them even bet
ter The visitor who does not take the pre-
caution to conceal his ignorance of the horse
must expect to have n good dealof fun poked
at him by pretty and nnschievous girls as
Col Dudley discovered when be spoke one
day of the hind knees of a horse But if you
want to hear about Kentucky and Kentucky
horses, come and see Col. Goodloe.n
A handsome, cultured gentleman is Col
Gooiloe, one you'd like for host, a friend,
an adviser, or a second in a duel or any other
enterprise requiring courage, firmness and
loyalty. He rs good business man. knows
politics. can tell story, make speech or
lead the german. but he would rather talk
horse than do anything else in the world
1.-THE horse breeding industry in Ken
lucky he says, lis almost entirely confined
to the Blue Grass region. Travelling in the
north and east meet many men who have a
mistaken notion of the extent Of the Blue
Grass country Many thsnk IL covers half
the state or more, but as q matter of fact it
extends but twenty five miles around Isexing-
ton The borders describe a circle OF irregu-
lar formation, but circle, nevertheless,
averaging fifty miles in diameter. | do not
call this the garden spot OF the world, nor do
| say il is an emerald on the bosom Of Ken
lucky, IS my poetic friend Clarkson
SAYS, but | DO often tell gentlemen
there's but one place on the face
Of the globe where corn, wheat, oats, rye.
barley, timothy, clover, hemp, fax, potatoes,
both Irish and sweet. and tobacco can be seen
growing side by side and that is in the Blue
Grass region; and not only growing side by
side but growing Ill perfection IN all the
tsaa.tv and bountifulness Of nature The
crop which gives name 10 our country is an
indigenous cTop We do not nave To SOW blue
grass, it need not be protected. The blue
grass is hardy and persistent and it runs out
everything else Left to iSseh field of tirno-
thy or clover quickly becomes field OF bine
cyrass This famous grass Is tall and thin Of
stalk and very sweet. / have sem II THREE
feet high. but with its tops tapping over. No
hay is made of the blue grass II is consumed
entirely by grazing. There are several rea-
sons for this. One is that 10 Is light crop In
tonnage. no more than one-third OF one-lsalf
that OF timothy or clover Another Is that
it is. next 70 clover, the most difficult grass
to cure perfectly. Besides, the borses and
cows get 1t all even in winter digging under
tht. snow for the last blade In favorable
winter season the grass grows nrceiy down
under the snow. and the horses nose II oot IA
great delight and with much benefit 20 theTn-
selves"
And it Is this grass that gives 70 Ken
tuck her fame as q breeder u race horsesF
1T must be So The results speak for
themselves. Nearly all the crea. race tsc-ses
in Anericn trace their origin 20 Eeutack =.
The California breeders, who have great sta
bleS. started with kentucky dr,s. 50 did
the Montana breeders, and tn Tennessee.
The only exceptions % the rule are found IN
the case Of q number of thorosIghJresis bred
directly from sires imported from England
There Is a number II srlcoessful racers On The
turf today bred from imported slrvs and ma
tive mars ! as lire * bre91sng usLaliT
urctrices excellent results. but L dor n;
work web Tire ota~r way. Bresfing frusu
irn1ortssd mars bss never oes1 q s7zccsss. 80
/ IL NAV Dc said. sT,aSIng sez1eya1fy, that a.
! the f.-.t race horses N the Unis,d Stairs srs,
/ in one way o- another, Keutscky pEoef.ct
| Kentucky fsas the hloo1, rtich Is r~cnzoz-
| ally crossed with good strains from Eng
/ land -
How lrng has tbe bresiing of racs hors-z
| beer going On x Ksutuckyi'
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| ir,rssrs4ts9a Of q few ssTesfTz-l England n
| 1880 or ttsere1.t,ysts -4Ough s. car hardly -
/ said tea, h~-.s<1-4g hsd fairly beas1n bsfors
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