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ENGLISH RACING MOST EXPENSIVE. "American Racegoers" Comment on the Sport at Liverpool and London Courses Last Week. New York, July 20. The Heralds "American Racegoer" cables entertainingly of English racing at Liverpool and London last Friday and Saturday as follows: "Devotees to the sport of kings had their hands full in England today. Up- in Liverpool one of tlie big events of the year came off. The Liverpool Cup was run for and that little cupid in a cap jockey, . Frank Wootton. won it. "Since he has gone back to riding after his accident he seems more successful than ever. Perhaps it does jockeys good to pretty near kill them once in a while. I know a number of bettors who have expressed a desire to kill certain of them outright now and then, ami do it themselves, too. "Be that as it may. Baby. Wootton lias been winning races at Liverpool so fust lately that he is a bigger pet than ever with the public, and especially with women. Racegoers will spoil that rlfteen-year-old boy if they are not careful. "He rode in six races today. Of these he won two and had places in the other four, second in one and third in three. No wonder he is so popular. "The purse for the big race he won today was no small affair, either. It was for 1,500 sovereigns IS7.500, and the odds were S to 1. The horse he rode was Adversary, owned by H. Lythaui. He is probably glad he owns it. "Its a long jump to. go from London to Liverpool for a horse ract! four hours and a half up and a little more coming back. None but jockeys, horse owners, real sports and fools would do it. "By no stretch of the. imagiuation can I be placed In any one of the first three classes, so I know what I am. Maybe 1 can hedge, though, and try to crawl in as a horse owner, liecause once 1 did possess a donkey whose singing so annoyed the neighborhood that 1 presented him to :i man 1 did not like. "In addition to the nine hours it consumes in railway riding for the attendance of a Londoner at the Liverpool Cup meetHig it also consumes a fat collection of pounds.- The fare is 5. and I refuse to tell how they sting you to get Into the enclosure, as 1 have no wish to discourage Americans from attending races in Liverpool. "There are other things to discourage them besides the price, all of which, is explanatory of th fact that the Yankee attendance was attenuated, although there was a Very big crowd here, mainly from the north of England,- with a liberal seasoning of Scotsmen. "As to foreigners well, move came over from Ireland than from America to watch the famous race, but then Irishmen go everywhere, and they only had to jump across, anyway. "While the Australian. Wootton. has been just about having everything his own way at Liverpool, our .American star jockey. "Danny Malier. has been adding fresh laurels to his crown at meetings in the south of England. "At Hurst Park today for the Molesey Stakes there were seventeen entries, but only two starters. The jockeys were Mahcr, and Dillon. Danny was up on a horse called Jackson, that has iron gray hair like a sixty-j-ear-old man. He won so easily that within one hundred yards or so of the post he turned around iu the saddle aud laughed at Dillon. "Of course it had to rain. A little English race meeting without a shower is an almost unheard-of thing this year. Not chough rain, you understand, to oak through, but enough to make the grass wet. seats on the lawn disagreeably damp, and to do all kinds of damage to "dainty shoes and delicately colored costumes of ladles. "Waterproof coats and bales of banknotes are two essentials to the enjoyment of an English race meeting."
