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south Africa champion goes to England. Baluarte, the champion racer of South Africa, lias been shipped to England for a campaign against the best horses to, be found there- . Baluarte was bred in Argentina and Is a brown -colt by Batt Gypsey and bred at, Senor Unzues.jstud at San, Jacinto, near Buenos Ayres. He was bought and taken to South Africa when a yearling by Joseph Plcclone. who sold him to Hon. Frank White, one of the leading turfmen of South. Africa. From bis start in racing he has been consistently, a high-class racer, and, having won about all that is, to be won in South African racing, finally reached that stage where, the handlcappers put. a stop to his further chances. Last winter he won the rich Johannesburg Summer Handicap, with 129 pounds, up, and since then hiis been given impossible weights. Of his being sent to England the Transvaal Leader said: "We can . Ill .afford to lose .a race horse of Balu-artes caliber, and It is a thousand pities that such a high-class horse should ba drlveu out of ;the country to allow of . second-rnters paying their way. Under the existing state of affairs there is no other course for the Hon. Frank White to pursue. Balu-arte could only run at the quarterly mt-etlngs of the Turf Club, If one be allowed to except about two Germiston handicaps, and, perhaps, the Durban Julv Handicap. It was obviously Impossible to prepare the horse for such widely divergent races as are the principal events catalogued at these fixtures, for. as any trainer knows, you must sacrifice jx horses par to get him to stay the Handicap or GohlQelds course, aiid vice versa, for the short dash up tlie straight in the Merchants Handicap. Consequently. Balu-artes opportunities were reduced to a minimum. Further than that, he stood so far above the hulk of bis rivals that the handlcappers, perforce, apportioned him an Impossible galloping weight to produce a field of starters a case of our one good horse being sacrificed for the predominating moderates."
