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VARIABLE QUALITY OF HORSES. Just sis with regard to the vintages of claret and champagne there arc good and bad years, horses vary from season to season, for reasons more difficult to discover than in the case of the wines, which are affected by weather and other ascertainable causes though to some extent the weather may also influence the growth of thoroughbred stock. There is no cause to become pessimistic about the race horse because certain years are bad ones. In lSSO, for example, there was an extraordinarily brilliant concourse of three-year-olds, for it is at this age that a horses reputation is usually supposed to be made. Ormonde, Minting, The Bard, Saraband stood out from several others which would have been accepted as good animals in an ordinary season. Next year was, on the contrary, distinctly poor, the Derby falling to a moderate animal in Merry Hampton and the St. Leger to a far from good one in Kilwarlin. The Times.
