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PATRIOTISM INVOLVED IN RACING ABROAD. Somebody asked. August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, the other day why practically all the best race horses here last season, including Ballot. Odin. Fair Play. Priscillian and Sir Martin, had been sent to England Instead of being kept here to maintain the standard of the sport. Mr. Belmont readily replied that while a desire to capture some of the rich classics in England was one reason, it was also the aim of Messrs. Keene. Whitney and himself to win some of the big stakes with hor.-cs bred in this country, that American pride and patr! otism might ls aroused and the real value of the breeding industry here might lie finallv appreciali I.
