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BRITISH TURF NEWS AND COMMENT King Edwards agents have been negotiating for the purchase of the Irish colt The White Knight to take the place in the royal stud left vacant by Persimmons death deathMr Mr Crokers filly Rhodora has been struck out of the English Kcmpton Park Jubilee Handicap and all accounts confirm the early report that she has not done well the past winter winterAt At Liverpool March 20 Danny Maher won on Peach at S to 1 Battle Axe at 10 to 1 and Bertillon at S to 1 and there was great jubilation among his big army of constant followers followersThe The English National Coursing Club has entered into the reciprocal agreement which exists between the Jockey Club and other authorities for he mutual enforcement of sentences passed on offenders Rac ¬ ing Calendar CalendarOne One of the funniest things about the turf is the notion evidently prevalent in sonic quarters that the business of signing a cheque constitutes a man a judge of horses and of racing Illustrated Sport ¬ ing and Dramatic News NewsDealer Dealer to distinguished foreigner who is buying a horse Well ow do you like ini I F I like not iiis leaps Dealer Well Im sure e aint a sticky wse D F Sticky No He is not enough sticky When he leaps I do not adhere Punch PunchThe The question naturally arises as to whether breed ¬ ers of other breeds of horses may not have doue something analogous to what thoroughbred breeders did when they neglected the Herod line and finally let it leave the country at a comparatively small price Mark Lane Express Agricultural Journal JournalMr Mr C J Gibson of the Swalcliffc Stud Farm Baubury writes the London Sportsman that Pori delle by Perigord out of Morphine the winner of a 15000 race at Johannesburg recently was as a twoyearold regularly hunted by his children with the Warwickshire Hounds She was a particularly good jumper and would do two days a week and look well on it Perrier which won a race on the same day as Pcridellc was like the last named bred at Swalcllffe SwalcllffeWhile While human nature is what it is nine out of ten individuals who go racing will continue to try their fortune and the sjwrt is a bane only to tht brainless plunger who in or out of luck and it is generally the latter never knows where to draw the line But the brainless plunger is fortunately getting scarcer every year and as long as a man bets with his head he is doing no more harm tluin the pothunting spinster who enters her pet tortoise shell for the local cat show The County Gentleman
