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BENEFICIAL BREEDING AND RACING. The special English correspondent of the Now Yoik Evening post -,iv of Cleat Britain as the .in ,.l market Cm the thoroughbred: "Though onl oi t" its goals, racing lias plot, ably contributed more than anything else to the present dimensions of the British horse breeding Industry. For Oils reason it seems tu the horse lover that peoples and governments should hesitate before thev comb inn the turf as :i useful guide to let-morality. England has benefited considerably by the fact that Governor Hughes appears to be of that opinion. Such nun as .lanes K. Keeue liave ad mlttedly succeeded in producing in their stable-animals as flu. at those of any English breeder, and now England is benefiting by their skill. - -1 1- -1-- - perbapa more than In America hone racing inn be considered fruta two puiati ol view as M Industry led is a recreation. Attempts have ;1t times been ma* to show how main million sterling iin annually brought Into circulation by means ot the turf: but the ramifications oi the snort are so i i.i.i thai nothing like trustworthy figures can h« ol. mined. •Trainers and their servants constitute an army, and the acreage remuneratively occupied by breed iug and training establishments is enormous. It I* bard t.. mention a trade In England that does not dl reetly or Indirectly benefit by the turf. The bones and ii, ii- attendants hare !•• be bostsed and fed: training sad breeding establishments employ areau sects builder* and labor, is. and the care ol courses lnri.i-he employment on a scale that is little imagined. The traffic which racing occasions is a most import an I Item In the receipts of many railway com i .mi- s: hotels and local tradesmen in towns when luei in-.- are held benefit hagely; .i ia.-t well recognised in Paris thai earnest efforts are be ing made to prolong tie- s.-.ts..n fee a few weeks at the end of the year. Main businesses which would ■ .i. lj nppear to a easuai observer to be concerned with racing derive wealth from it -opticians, for Inst mi i The number of race glasses sold annually in London must be reckoned by thousands. "Bui from the horse lovers point of view the real Importance el racing is thai only after ii horse hn-giveu unmistakable proofs of his capacity on the coarse .an his worth be appreciated. The best bred and most perfectly shaped animals may be useless r i practical purposes, that is to say. for the props gati.m of sto.k which will give evidence of the s| . rial v. i!ne of thoroughbred blond, not only for racing, but for all oilier occupations, notably for cavalry. Preparation for the race and the ordeal of tin struggle bring ••ut weaknmaea and defects oo the one band, ur virtues on the other, which coebl be a-. • Ttaloed by no other means, n is not for Hi. take ,i merely breeding race horses that foreign governments are alw..s ready to pay man. thous suds of pounds for prominuut tUoiouuhbrcU sires."
