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W00TT0N THE STAR RIDER LEADS ALL COMPETITORS ON THE ENGLISH TURF— MAHER IN SIXTH PLACE. American Horses in All Stables Working Satisfactorily — Leading Sires of England — Antaeus Does Not Please English Experts. London. Eng., April 11. — Among the winning jockeys of the past wi-ek most progress was made by F. Wootton and the youngster is well In front of his rivals with a total of thirteen. Trigg is n.-xt beat with eight and Higgs follows with a point less. The busy times of Easter will give plenty of won; for the riders in all parts of the coiintrv. and the winning list, which has 1 a idly taken defmiie form :us yet. xvill iloubtlcs- show iiianv changes as the result of the weeks doings. Hie demand for Wool-Ions services, however, is likely to enable liLni to keep the lead, and it is suite on the cards that he will hold it for some time to come. if. indeed, he does not remain at tin- head of the winning list till the close of the sea-son. The table of the principal winning riders on tin-flat up to yesterday is as follows: Jockey. Mts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Inn. P. C. Wootton. F it 13 18 ! 30 20.U Trigg. C .". » S 4 7 31 16.0O Higgs. w 48 7 4 .", :-.2 14..".S Jones. H 24 ."i 4 5 1« 20. v; Bjdfclllie. E .!2 5 •". •". 17 l.i. 62 Mailer. D :*i .". ."» 4 22 ES.SS Howard. J 2B 4 2 4 l.i Di.iXi Madden. 0 :!2 4 7 1 19 12 t Vigilant says in the Sportsman of yesterday: "Twenty years previously Foxhall had immortal ized himself by a magnificent double event, as i II ree-year old. in the Obaarew itch and Cainbriilg • shire, prior to which, thanks quite as much to -nmgaiarent riding of the late George Pereamm .is to his own intrinsic merit, he defeated Tristan an I won the Bemad Prize of Purls. Indeed. LSS1 tvh- a red letter year for the Americans, for it was then that Iroouois won the Derby and St. Leger for tin* late Pierre Lorilhtrd. Harking back to the preaei Sam Darling l.«oks like playing from a strong hand tliis- season, for in addition to he sixteen Ames i cans owned by James R. Keene. he has charge l International and the two year olds Troubled Waters, Truckeo. Washmv Torch Bearer Miss Helen Courtes.inue. a lillv by Meddler, mil of Vantage, and the three-year-olds WalMower ami Nature, for Mi Carroll. Nor does the invasion stop here, for at Ballaton Lodge. Newmarket. A. J. Joyner has up wards of thirty horses in training, collectively the property of II. P. Whitney and August Belmont, while the gentleman last named has eighteen, inclusive of the Two Thousand Guineas hero. Norman III., with J-dm Watson at Palace House. It mav be assumed that all these American horses are selected goods, and with sui-h an array it will lip strange if we do not see stars and feel stripes before the season is oyer. Joyner. to the promise of whose team I called attention during the winter, after a privileged visit to his establishment, has already struck oil. anil it is pleasant lo be able to constrain-hue him on having saddled a winner in th.- two year-old Oversight so early in the campaign." Pager leads the aires so far Ibis season. His position is through Duke of Sparta. Then comes Bebctl BE Diablo on account of his daughter, the Sacristine filly, winning the M.8T5 Spring Produce Stakes at Newbury. The sires of winners of .oH or more to April lu.are in the table lielow r: Win- Sire and breeding. ners. Races. Won. Eager, by Enthusiast — Greeba :: ;; .KX Robert le Diable. by Ayrshire -Rose Bay i i o.sT-i St. Piueaulu. by St. Simon— Isabel. :: :: t; .v.r. Buccoth or Knthiisiast 1 l SJM J.-ddah Ideadi. by Janissary — Pilgrimage 2 2 MM Toredo Souih Africa i. bv Torpedo by H.-rmit i— Thetis 1 1 4.12." Cvllene I Buenos Avresi. by Bona Vista— Arc. ulia 1 1 4.ot ." Wolfs Crag, bv Barcahline — I,ucv A-hton 2 2 4 17:1 St. Marian frimanj. by St. Simon -Miini 2 2 .". C °.- St. Serf, by St. Simon — Feronia 2 2 3.185 Ayrshire, by Hampton — Atahinta... 1 2 2.885 Wildfowler. by GalBnuh? — Tragedy 2 2 2,tii0 Lcsterlin dead. bv i . a Minnie — Miliora 1 1 2 tls". St. Oris, by Galopin— Isabel 2 2 2.510 Chris Newman, the jockey, who followed bis no fission in America with some success, has accepted an engagement to ride in Holland for the Baroness de Breiuan. a leading light in that country amongst racing folk. Newman came to England from Eugene Leighs training establishment in Franc.-, and was to have ridden for Lady de Bathe, whose horses at the time were under the charge of Donohue at Kent ford. Owing, however, to Donohue severing his connection with her ladyship. Newmans engagement was cancelled. He has for SMM time been connected with the Hon. ;. Lambtoa at Stanley House, riding in all trials and principal gallops. Moat of th.- present raring gray bursts have descended from Chanticleer, and of late years there las been a distinct revival In this line, judging bv ti:.- number «f recent winners ei this color, to wft. Skirmish. Jackson and Clvdebridge. Now that Nahol has brought new blond into this country from France we can expect to see a larger number of gray horses competing. A J. Jovners horsesi--all of which that have been seen in public have run well -have lieen eeieiing on the rice course side, when- Priseillian and Delirium have been slipping along alter the fashion of win mis in embryo, and it is fully expected that there are good times in store for the Ballaton House team The English racing critics do not at all like August Belmonts Antaeus, which has run one fair ra.-e in Lngl.iml. They consider him "conchy" in type, untrue in general t on for mat ion and bad in style of movement. According to all accounts, no horse :it Newmarket coiibi be doing belter than Norman III., which is by ma. iv g.HMl judges greatly fancied for the City and Suburban, for lie makes fresh friends with i-nrv succeeding gallop and strode out in great stvle last Thursday morning in a mile and a uuarter stretch on Bury Hill.
