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WHITNEYS UNLUCKY HORSES IN ENGLAND. In spite of an unlucky season Mr. Whitney comes out at the finish amongst the first twenty-five win ning owners with 21,S90, which, if u great drop from last year, might easily have been worse had Whisk Broom gone wrong a little earlier. Hardly any of Mr. Whitneys yearlings have good joints when they come over, and our hard turf quite crippled old and young alike. No worse year could have been found for them, and Joyner must have been at his wits end to know what to do. An unhealthy winter brought sickness to Borrow, Fir3t Flight, and others, whilst Lady Frivoles filly had such bad knees that training her was altogether out of the question. Pique Dame was another that could never be trained in America or here, and I have no doubt that the reason why Bashti and Matinee did no good was because they were small marcs of line quality that had exhausted their" whole store of racing merit in their first year in America. New Castle became somewhat affected in his wind, and Perseus and Witcliwork could not be trained. I had hoped for something better from All Gold, though he was a chestnut Persimmon, and that should have been sufficient proof that he was not of his best family. Bad luck prevented Iron Mask from taking higher rank perhaps, as ho. bad .abnormal speed, and except for being touchedviin. his wind might reasonably have boon expected to stay a. mile or over. Whether It was the result of unhealthy weather through winter and spring can never be known, but he ia one of those big upstanding horses that are prone to affection of the respiratory organs. - When a batch of twenty-two yearlings came over, they were generally regarded as the best which Mr. Whitney had ever sent, but when they got into training the majority fell away Instead of improving. As the year progressed, the Fiesole colt, the Melba colt, Uranus, Yorkvllle Belle filly, Jersey Belle, Evening Star, Delusion. Turnover, Dont Care, Jinks gelding. Perversity, and one or two more were put into selling races and sold for what they made, whilst Sandrian was offered in the same way, though nobody would give more than 400 guineas for him on account of his bad knees. In doing thlp, Joyner showed that he was not afraid to let anybody else have them to make them better if they could, and there is clear testimony to his skill 4Q the fact- that in no case has there been any iui provement at all, and scarcely one seems worth keeping in training. It appears that Joyner will be left witli a mod-crate lot of old ones next year, and with Wild Thyme filly, Martha colt. Sun Up, Balaton, and Sandrian the best of his two-year-olds, that division will require strengthening from America, if he is to take any part in the classics of next year. Another large batch of two-year-olds arrived some time ago, and they have already settled down in regular exercise like old horses. "Warren Hill," in London Sporting Life.
