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DALMATIAN AND BASHTI ADMIRED. English turf critics seem to think that Dalmatian, which was wild last fall to Louis Winans by S. C. llildreth, will get along well on the other side this year. Dalmatian arrived In England in Sep-, teniber and started once, in the Markeatou Handicap at Derby. lie carried 120 pounds and finished sixth in a field of nine, three horses being left at the post. But the Kthelbert colt was hardly fit after his ocean voyage and his performance was not taken seriously. When thoroughly acclimated Dalmatian, it is thought, will show much of the form that enabled him to carry off the three-year-old honors iu America last season. Speaking of the colts breeding, one of the critics says: "The breeding of Dalmatian affords yet another example of the shining successes gained in other countries by imported British stock or their produce as compared with the results obtained from the interbreeding of horses and mares, either of native origin or only remotely descended from the British fountain head. Not only is Dalmatian by the son of an imported English horse out of an imported English mare, but on the female side of his pedigree we find that his dam,s sire. Magnetizer, is by the English horse. Ill Used, and Ionls. dam. lone, I13- another English-bred sire out of imported Leamingtons daughter, Inverary. "To the blending of all this good imported blood is attributable the twelve victories of Dalmatian in his first two turf seasons. Had racing not been so crippled in tho states by the harsh anti-betting laws, his winning total would no doubt have been considerably in excess of the sum of roughly 5,000 with which he is credited as the result of his efforts in the two years." H. P. Whitneys Bashti, for which ho paid 0,000 in order to send her after this years English Oaks and other rich stakes on the British turf, has been greatly admired since she arrived at Balaton Lodge, Newmarket. Trainer Joyner did not attempt to show the Adiini filly under saddle before the fiat season closed, but at winter quarters she has been inspected by the English critics, who say she is one of the finest looking fillies they have ever seen. Joyner has been advised by trainer Welsh, who handled Bashti here, that she likes early racing and can stand plenty of it. For that reason Joyner will lose no time in training Bashti for some of the early fixtures..
