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i • ! I i • I I | i i ? J 1 1 I WANT HANOVERS IN ENGLAND. From the London Sportsman of June 11 we take the following in "Vigilants Note Book :" Only t lie other day "The Special Commis- sioner" called attention to the praiseworthy enterprise of Mr. James E. Piatt in importing the American horse Hand "Or and thus restoring the direct line of Glencoe to this country. From the pedigree of Hand Or. which is given in another column, it will be seen how beauti- ! fully bred he was, and how suitable to cross i with English-bred mares. Unfortunately I have to write of him in the past tense, for I learn with regret that the horse fell dead at exercise at Foxhill on Saturday morning. This is indeed a disappointment and a loss. Hand Or had been in England little over two months. He more than once accomplished a brilliant performance in America, notably when he won the Latonia Derby one mile and a half from Plaudit in the record time of 2:324, and Plaudit shortly after- ward ran second to the great Hamburg for the Realization Stakes, the most important three- ; year-old race in the states. Moreover Hand Or was a good-looking, lengthy. blood-l:ke horse, with every appearance of making up into a fine stallion. 1 have not yet heard the cause of his death, but it would probably be rupture of an artery or heart disease, and in any case the hopes that were formed in regard to him are now dashed, and the prospect of re-establishing the Glencoe line in England is again as remote as it was before the arrival of Hand Or. To be Bure. there is Star of Hanover by Hanover racing in England, but there is not enough of him to make a stallion, and we must look again to the States if we want a Hanover horse likely to uphold the reputation of that extraordinary sire. The first experiment has not proved en-I couraging. it is true, but it is to be hoped that another effort will be made. Glencoe has, through Pocahontas, left us such cause to regret him. and the value of his blood in America has proved so inestimable that 1 can imagine uoth-J ing better calculated to improve our bloodstock than a revival of the Glencoe line. He was a great horse himself, and splendidly bred, being by Sultan out of Trampoline, by Tramp, her dam, Web. own sister to Whalebone and Whis- ker, by Waxy out of Penelope. The above is a good "tip" for American own- j ers who may have well bred sons of Hanover. — | I Turf Field and Farm. | |
