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ENGLANDS THREE-YEAR-OLDS OF 1912. A- |..r the racing during the past year, it is scarcely possible to wax enthusiastic aimut the per fornianees of the three-year old-. There can be little doubt thai Tia.-erv wa- mil and away the beat of them. Twelve months age this son of Pock Sand wa- -o badly crippled by a mysterious swelling "i on- of his hocks that nothing seemed more likely than that he would never take part in a race. The greatest eredil is daa to his trainer. Watsou. for the patience and skill he displayed in the treatment of the "cripple." Lite Derby was the lirsf race in which Tracery ran. Had it been possible to "open hi eyes" in a smaller event prior to the Epsom meeting, it may lie taken for granted that he would have beaten Tagalie and Jaeger, instead Of finishing behind them. The manner in which Tracery won the St. Leger proved him to be a uood horse ami if there had been a three-year old handicap framed last auiuinii. we should have found Tracery allotted ten pounds more lhan any of hi- riva -. Thai being so, the less said about the latter the better. These was a peculiar International "iavor" about the classic race- of i!»i2. The Two Thousand Guineas winner, Sweeper II.. is by the American sire Broomstick, lie was, however, foaled in France, but Maher. an American jockey, rode him when he won over Hie Rowley Mile. Tagalfe, winner of th-one Thousand Guineas and the Derby, i- oul id the French-bred mare Tagale. In the Guineas she wat ridden by the Australian Hewitt, ami in the Herlv by John ReiiT. an American domiciled in Prance. Mirska, winner of the Oaks, though bred and trained in England, belongs to a frenchman, and wa- ridden by Childs. an Anglo-French jockey. Tracer] :-owned by an American, was bred in America, is bj an Knglisn horse oul of an English mare, i- trained in England, and was ridden to victory at Doacaster by Beilhouse, who. though born al BirVningbam, h i-• lone all in- riding in Prance. Never before has there been so straage a "mixture" a- iiii-. What Would Admiral Hon- have bad to say about it all in the year that has just dawned we shall probably see things more nattering to our insular pride, for I take it that Irishmen will allow u- |.. share m the satisfaction derivable from the anticJpati l achievements of Craganoor and Bbogun. both if which were bred in the Omen ]-|e though the former went as a foal to the bracing pastures t Sledmere. These are two high-chis* colts. Cragan oar ha-, ladeed, only to develop on normal lues in order i,, rank with famous horses. — London Snortinir Life.
