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JOYNER PREFERS ENGLISH METHOD. Andrew Jackson Joyner, the American trainer, now located in England, has boon giving The London Evening News his ideas on the subject of the time test in preparing horses What it all comes to is; that he thinks n trial in the old-fashioned English method, with a horse, is more trustworthy than with the watch. He has. been looking into the question closely since he went to England. In America courses are not so easy, or so sevtre, as in England. Here they are level, and the going differs little. Not so in England. One may have an easy course at Epsom or Brighton, and a difficult one as at Ascot or up the finish of the Bunbury Mile. Joyner went into details. "A fast sprinter," he says, "would run live furlongs in 57 seconds at Epsom, whereas It would take him fully 1:03 to do the five furlongs at Ascot." The wind 1ms much .greater effect than most people would suppose in his opinion. He told of galloping some two-year-olds on the Limekilns, live furlongs, the wind being favorable, and they covered this distance in 1:0121. .A week later be galloped the same animals over the same ground with the wind against them, and they took 1:07J. "You take selling platers amongst themselves," he said, "and they will run fast, but put them with stake horses and they will be beaten in slower time. The reason for this is, they simply cant stay the pace with the stake horses." His conclusion is that under English conditions the time test does not amount to anything.
