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HANDSPRING COMMENDED TO ENGLAND. The annual December sale of thoroughbreds begins at Newmarket, England, next Monday and continues to ami including Friday. Many horses change ownership every vear at the Decembet sale and transactions of prime importance not infrequently are brought off. Of one feature for the forthcoming sale of this year Sporting Lifes commissioner says: "The Fridays catalogue is one of considerably more consequence than usual, and in view of the many important lots which it embraces, we are not likely to see so many visitors leaving on the Thursday evening as in former years. For the moment 1 will only mention two the Trenton mare. Palmy Days, which is believed to be in foal to William the Third, and the American-bred stallion, Handspring, a son of Hanover. There -will be a very considerable leaven of American stock forth coming su these sales, for on the Friday Mr. J. B. Haggln is offering twenty-seven of bis mares, and Blr. II. T. Oxnard has eleven mares la the first days catalogue. Handspring, which, -was foaled In 1803. is a horse of the Herod line, tracing1 back, through Hindoo. Virgil. Vandal and Glencoe which was imported to he United States, to Sultan, son of Selim. a great-grandson of Herod. The Sultan branch of the Herod line ihas produced four Derby winners, viz.. Bay Middletdn, Flving Dutchman, Andover and Ellington. We have practically none of its representatives in this country, tout in France the family occupies a prominent position. It is to be toped, therefore, that some English breeder will secure. Handspring, which was not only a good-class race horse, but has proved a successful sire, more than fifty of bis sons and daughters being winners."
