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AN IMPORTANT SALE. The decision of Sir J. Blundell Maple, the owner of the famous Childwick Stud, to transfer from France to America the annual sale of thoroughbred stock which has become so noteworthy an event in the annual round of continental turf annals, is an event whose importance it is not easy to estimate. It would be quite the truth, indeed, to remodel the foregoing sentence into a declaration that the opportunity which the present sale affords "American owners and breeders to obtain some representatives of 8ir J. Blundell Maples great establishment is one whose importance it is impossible to overestimate. Sir J. Blundell Maple is, in every soneo, a high-class sportsman, and his turf operations, both as an owner and breeder, have always been, and, of course, are today, upon a scope and plane well befitting his individuality. " Nothing but the bast" has evidently been his motto, and the breeding and racing records of both England and France are bright with the achievements of animals brad at the Childwick Stud or sent out therefrom in utsro among its annual sales at Paris. The great importance of the present sale, as already intimated, lies" in the fact that it is practically Sir J. Blundell Maples annual French offering, but in accordance with his determination to now give America the benefits of Chlidwicks blood strains, has been transferred to our own market as the first of- a series of annual sales of a similar nature. Sir J. Blundell Maples racing and breeding operations, as already noted, are upon a tremendous scale, and so well were the strain of blood chosen, and so ably have the vast interests of Childwick been handled, that we find the "white and gold stripes, claret cap," invariably prominent in the annual reckoning of Englands silks and satins. Last year for instance, Sir J. Blundell Maple absolutely led tho list of winning owners, while this season 1902 has witnessed big colors achieved tho tremendous total of sixty-iix races, among them being many of the turfs most important prizts. French racing, as already intimated, also testifies to the great strength of Childwick blood, as well as to the genuine opportunity offered by such a sale as this. Sir J. Blundell Maple has for several years held an annual sale in Paris, and mares sent to these French sales in foal to Childwick sires have subsequently produced such great winners as Perth, Allier, Isle, Espoir, Styrax. La Camargo, etc. Perth was a tremendous racehorse, the best colt of hi year. He practically swept the board of all the great three-year-old French events of 1899, his series of six unbroken victories including tho Prix Hocquart 2,231, the French Two Thousand 3, 68, the Prix Darn 2,152, the French Derby 7,285, the Grand Prix de Paris 10,0C6, and the Prix Royal Oak 2,883. All the other animals mentioned won great races, but there is space in this connection to refer only to La Camargo, who was an equally high class performer the filly of her year, in fact winning last seasons French One Thousand 3,161, French Oaks 450, and Prix Vermeille 1,630 ; and, too, the daughter of Childwick and Belle at Boune has this year captured no less than seven great stakes, among her victories being the Prix de Conseil Municiple, one mile and a half, with VZ pounds in the saddle, defeating the bast French horses with Black Sand who subsequently won the Cesarewitch unplaced. All the broodmares consigned to the present sale are surely in foal, and they are junt as genuine, just as promising, and have as equal chance to produce groat results as any of the many winner-breeders which Sir J. Blundell Maple has in other years eent to France. The diversion of the sale to America is because Sir John has become impressed with the possibilities of America as a market. The yearling fillips, which are in no sense "cast-offs" CONTINUED ON FODBTH PAGE. AN IMPORTANT SALE. Continued from First Page. nnd are absolutely untried, embrace some of the most choice strains in the English Stud Book. The naturally rapid increase of bo great a stud as Childwick is the only reason for their being sent here for sale, the advantage of this country over France being their eligibility for all our racts, whereas few French events are open to the production of other lands. A feature of the sale which calls for especial mention will be the presence at the sale of Mr. Alex. Waugh, M. R. C. V. S., the manager of Sir J. Blun-dell Maples stud, who lias an international reputation in the turf world.
