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AMERICAN THOROUGHBREDS THOROUGHBREDSTruly Truly this is a year when tho oaglo screams and Old Glory waves on highl Our commerce is greater than ever our national prosperity beyond the limit and our thoroughbred horses apparently beyond compare compareFollowing Following right on after the performances of the great Commando and the good Conroy and the speedy The Parader as typical threeyear old giants cornea the victory of an American owner in the English Derby for the second time in its history An English horse he is1 practi ¬ cally owned by an American leased by him for a term of years at a fabulous sum trained and ridden by Americans and the quality of his opponents is shown by tho now record estab ¬ lished for the race In the single preceding Amorican victory twenty years ago tho horse was Amorican but tho trainer and jockey Eng ¬ lish lishIn In tho Oaks victory however is found a genu ¬ ine and full triumph for American breeding and training methods Tho good filly was bred and born in this country her sire an American horse pnro and simple trained and riddan by Americans The only English item is her ownor long enough in this country and suffi ¬ ciently closely identified with this country to ba considered as good an Amorican as his son who if we mistako not was born here hereThese These victorios abroad and tho good per ¬ formances of tho threeyearolds at homo dom omstrate that our stock selection and breeding methods are all right and that wo know both how to train horses and how to rido them Hitherto tho tide of high class blooded stock has rollsd almost without exception from east to west but in tho f aco of recont events in the blue ribbon circles at home and abroad it will not be surprising to sea boforo long somewhat of a change and tho world coming to these shores for thoroughbreds as it has for the past fifteen years for trotters Spirit of the Times
