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AMERICAN OWNERS SHOULD STAY AT HOME. Wishard Says Only Exceptional Horses Can Win Abroad and More Money Can Be Made Here. Enorli Wishard was on a recent visit to I.eo-i.atus Stock Farm at Ilarrodsburg. Ky.. for the pur-iitse of inspecting John A. Brakes Ort Wells, wliith is doing stud duty there and twelve of tho mares lie served last spring which have been named bv Mr. Drake for the Futurity of 1910. Drake also owns a number of yearlings, the get of Ort Wells, which Wishard will train next season. Mr. Wishard. in spi aking of Mr. Drakes recent return to this mutiny from a trip to Europe, volunteered his views as tit the ailvisabilit v of American owners racing in England. "For American turfmen." said Mr. Wishard, who has traiue.I and raced a stable there llT John A. Drake, "racing in England is a tight proposition. Our class of handicap horses, per-formers of a valuation in this couutrv of Srom ,000 to ,000, tire handy racing tools in selling ran- abroad. The noblemen of the British turf think it no honor to win a selling raee. so the fields in sueli i.-iei s are of a |»oor quality of horses and a good nieiiean-breii pet former has little trouble to a in tliein. but when it comes to the big two and three-year-old stakes a different proposition is to lie faced. The American in these events has pitted I .gainst him the pick of English breeding, and it lakes a sensatkSaa] racer to win. "English trainers will go through an cutire season picking out the lxst of their strings to raee for the one event, and the Ainerii an owner will have against him a doaefl or more such high-type horses and. unless the American has an exceptionally higli-. MM! performer, he cannot hope to win. Any man mulct taking to win a Derby must be prepared to -la ml an outlay of thousands of dollars and have tin patient-, of Job. Pierre Lorillard did it with lroiimis. but jt cost him a huge sum. and of his eperi n.t in English racing he told an intimate Mead before he died that it had been a losiug game. "In my opinion any trainer having a stable of barm good enough to win in England, can make more money ;,t home. I dont think we have as ned raee karats on the awasaga as England, but I am s:itiMi,,i American horsemen are better trainers than their English contemporaries. I think at his beat on Wi Us ..mid hae won the Derbv, that is in some years, but 1 doubt his ahilitv to Iteat such winners ■, ;h event as Ormonde and Fh lag Fox. There are Mais when the fields in the Derbv. like limse in some big American races, are weak, but at times a eoit appears there that Borders on the ph.nomeii.il ami why shonhl not such be tin eaS* in a country in which every filly or colt foaled is fashionably beedl "our ows Wat Woodfo-il. 1innzi. Beldame and Artful. Uke lap and Bell-, nilgkt have won an English Oaks, bat I doubt if *» ose of these .pieeiis of tie- American rarf eonld have shown their heels fit a trio .f sueli mares as La lleehe. Sceptre ami 1ieitv Polly. The -realist of Kngli-h race horses are a shade higher in type than our-, t.m the American turfman racing abroad srlth hi- homebred harass has oaasolatfcni in the tact that sack a phenomenal performer tloes n..t show on there every year. Their coming at intervals gives an ordinary home a winning ehanee in the big classic races, I nle-- yon are lucky dont try the English racing."
