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looeph BRITISH SUPREMACY IN BREEDING. Spa-ms conae and go and ill -considered legislation affi-ctiug racing is a great industry in the United states, iu the other direction governmental aid goes to great lengths in supporting it in contl nental Europe. And between these extremes the British breeder of 1 d •• .1 1 stock, who is in no direct way encouraged bj the state, but is allowed the unhampered development of the racing field, maintains hi- supremacy and continue- Britain as the stud farm of the world. Tin reports of last months anles at Newmarket Indicate an enviable condition ol prosperltv both in breeding and racing. In fOUT days 583 head of -took wen- aold for a little leas than a million dollar-, an increase of a hundred thousand dollar- over the receipts of the similar sale of the previous year. This was considered par ticularly gratifying, a- the Austrian and German buyers took less than usanl. The Russians were active, a- tiny were also at the last big sale ol harness horses la New York. The Argentine to,k atunit a hiindi d thousand dollars worth of mare-. Senor Carlos Reyes alone buying seventeen head, ii. bee been for" some time the leading breeder in Uruguay, but has now established ■ new stud ncr — tic- border In the Argentine Republic Two of bl stallions are la- Samaritaln and Bimatead, the latter a Steward- Cup winner and brother to Sundrtdge, sire of the 191] Derby winner. Sunstar. To many of us. with our u-iial -ell -uftieieticy and in the pn railing Ignorance of the southern portion of the American continent, the name of Uruguay suggests vaguely aoaae distant semi-barbarous c nunltv. to which wi ought to ii- -ending missionaries and the enlightenments »f civilization. The breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses, though, are carrii l on only in progressive, stable and well-ordered com munities. and it may be possible that, after all. uir patronizing efforts for the uplift of our feUow-saeq could lie employed to greater advantage at hone. At l«-ast. there ar BOOM of the arts of husbandry wbi.h we mam ach them. Nor does it lis with ii- to talk to them of enterprise. One man from that benighted territory has actually bought in three ,ia- thoroughbred -lock to a greater value than all the breeders In Canada have imported in my life time. I The couiuKut of a Cauadiau breeder to whom 1 pointed out this seemingly incredible situation was that the same condition would continue so long as the Canadian racing clubs failed to realize their obligations to breeders. It is true, as he said, that there is little inducement for the importation of high class stock while the stakes and purses to be raced for show no relation to the great progress of the country in all directions or to the prosperity of the racing associations themselves. Unless the clubs provide mote and richer prizes the status of breeding In Canada will not improve. — Francis Nelson iu Toronto Globe.
