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it is very doubtful wliether Black Maria would not have ruu on 

 to the age of her grand-dam, and with equal credit. 



In 1836 she produced a bay colt by Gohanna, which Mr. 

 Stevens appropriately named Terrific, from its immense size. 

 It is a colt of great promise, combining the best racing points 

 of both sire and dam — at six weeks old Mr. Stevens refused 

 $1,500 for it. It makes one of the "string" Mr. Stevens sent 

 to New Orleans last January, in Yan Leer's charge. 



On the 6th of March last, Mr. Stevens shipped Black Maria 

 to New Orleans, per the " Nashville," in company with Cora, 

 Clara Howard, African, Bonny Black, and EthioiDia. The lot 

 arrived there on the 29th of that month, and when landed on 

 the levee, the fine old mare excited great admiration by her 

 blood-like appearance. None were sold here but Black Maria ; 

 the three last named were subsequently taken to St. Louis, Mo., 

 where Van Leer sold them for $5,000, to Messrs. Shacklett, 

 Sloan & Overton ; they came out at the Fall Meetings at St. 

 Louis, and were all winners, carrying oif the purses for three 

 and four- mile heats. Cora and Clara Howard were sent to 

 Alabama, the first to be stinted to imp. Glencoe, and the last to 

 imp. Leviathan, where they remain, still owned by Mr. Stevens. 



Black Maria, while at New Orleans, was purchased by the 

 Hon. Balie Peyton, in company with his friends. Dr. J. G. 

 Chalmers, of that city, and J. S. Yeager, Esq., of Yicksburg, 

 Miss., for $4,000, a sum much below her value ; not above a 

 year previous, an ofifer of $5,500, made for her, through us, was 

 refused. Mr. Peyton sent her at once to imp. Luzborough, and 

 at the same time proposed a Produce Stake for colts and fillies 

 dropped Spring of 1839, to come off over the Nashville 

 — ^Tenn. — Course, during the Fall Meeting of the Jockey Club 

 in 1843, with a subscription of $5,000 each, $1,000 forfeit, four- 

 mile heats. Black Maria's produce headed the list of nomi- 

 nations, and when the stake closed in January lust, there were 

 twenty-nine subscribers, making the stake amount to the enor- 

 mous sum of One Hundred and Forty-Five Thousand Dol- 

 lars ! No stake at all comparable with this, has ever been 

 made up in this country or Europe, so far as the amount of 

 money is concerned, and twenty-nine better mares cannot be 

 selected, in England or America. 



