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ENGLISH COMMENT ON AMERICAN HORSES. Views of Great London Dailies After Hillside Had Won the Crawfurd Plate. After the American horses had aelueved .a fairly good measure of success at the Newmarket Craven meeting, the London dailies devoted consl.lcra! le s|M.e to commenting on their performances: ••The iHiloiuiances of the American horses last week were notable." said Hie Loudon Times. "It is underst.kMl that the best of tliem have not been S-.ii: those thai h.-n e run are se. ..ml or third-rite animals opposing English horses of about the same class, or perhaps it should 1«- said deticiciicv M class-. Rut the importations lave done so well that Wheat the Pick of thein go to the post the best efforts of their F.nglish opponents will, to all r.p pearanee. be recpiired. It is evident that the Americans are capable of holding their own. half a dozen races having already ban s. cured l.v tbese three owners. What they have done is the more creditable as they have had comparatively little time to get into trim, and it must be supposed that they are under some dlsa. .vantage ill couseinience of their new surroundings. It is particularly to be observed that those of the two year olds which hue run. and of which, of course, nothing could b. known delinilelv Ixfore Ihey were sent over, are of obvious capacity." The I.ond.ei Standard commented as follows: •"To then who carefully follow 1 1 1-- trend of pass ing .veins, the Craven meeting, which closed yester day. shows that the American invasion is far more s.iioii- to F.nglish owners than was generally expected. Thus early in the season have our American cousins shown us that the Material th. y have brought over is worlhv of respect. To will ■ 1 ..uple of banal cups ere raciug is a mouth old, with horses that, according to the estimate of their home form, have not been leniently treated, is a remarkable achievement, and it is only fair to assume that our visitors have not as yet shown us the full stiengili of their hand. One cannot take any exception to the way Joyin-r has commenced his eainiuiigii with 11. P. Whitneys team. Both Hillside and Sea Cliff were run out as straight as the proverbial gun barrel on their lirst and subsequent appearances on an BngUafa racecomse. There has been no acclimatizing in the sense that occurred some dozen or more years ago. Everything in connection with the Itall.it. 111 Lodge horses so far has been free of finesse and absolutely above beard. Neither the owner of the horses nor his trainer b.ls. s. their success, uutiuge.l by any monetary consideration, is purely of I sporting character, ami thus is acceptable to those who follow racing for pleasure and regard it as a national pastime.- Horsemen and race •-•.mi-, however, still 11.nl inue to wonder at and criticise the training methods of .loyner. though they already have act opted th. 111 as etiicacions with American horses. Straight through, the critics have insi-tc.l 011 styling the hois.-, thai .lovner has raced as -fat," and the comment 0.1 th, fat that Hillside carried when he went to the | ost for the Crawfurd Plate, was universal. Of loraer and Hillside in c.niucft ion with that race, the Lo 1 d.ui T.legr.H.h said: "We have further evidence in the Ciawfurd PI 1: that Jovncrs stable is likely to make its mark this year. Hillside, a nice stamp of horse, virtually won the race from end to end. The gelding held ipiite a levee in the outer •bird cage." wh r- the somewhat unconventional methods of the American trainer, assisted by his several attendants, were watched with the keenest uiiiositv. Hillside was ridil. 11 by Frank Wootton. The lihtu.ight thus made his tirst acquaintance witli Harr Pu.mu Whit Ueys colors."
