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i ! GRAY HORSES IN FOREIGN RACING. I If we have not seen many good grays in the las-, ; ten years oa the KagHsb turf, there was. a, .,,,■. i rate, a reallj good oae, i. e.. Tagalie. Grays are far i more numerous on the continent, especlallj in Prt ami Italy and without a single exception they are lleiods. mostly descendants from Le Sancy. I i i Knglaml new ami then a gray Hermit i- seen, Isai not one of them has ever raise, I am pretension; to be anything more than of very moderate class. Ii, two graj Herod strains are those of the Wild Day- I roll descendant. Pepper and Salt, continued by -Gray Leg and Senseless, who, with the few descen dants from See Saw are all that is left in Engl ami of ibis e powerful Highflyer Hue of lb-rod and those ••; Le Sancy. Great sires of all times have produced gray e,.iis with gray mares, but not one of them has established ■ new family of grays. If Tagalie were nun. i would not hesitate to have her covered by Senseless, If only for the sake of gettiug ■ fill who cannot posalbrj fail to become a grand broodmare, considering the amalgamation of two of the si.uitcsi Herod lin.s |g existence. in ih ■•Dents, i„. r Sport" reference is made i .. the obvious upeiioiiiv of i be graj descendants from Le Sancy as it appears from the last rears racing i i records of the Italian turf. Of I.l horses run • twent.i nine were grays. Bight were offsprings ; from Moucberou. b. Chambertip. by Le Sancy: , seven are by Le Souvenir, by Le Sancy: three by !.-■ Si in.ii i t a in and three b.v Soberano. both sons if : " Le s.imv. One is bj Mirojr dc Portugal, a brother to Le Saucy. The most successful gray was f-a Kauterelle. which wen 2;..!"iii lire. Sin i by Si. Daini. n and bet dam. T.a Sireiie. by Le Basil I. . by -Le Sancy. Altogether these twenty-nine grays ....i I 142.045 lire. If from this sum the stakes are i ducted which the French horses. Kildare ami Clairnti I i II. carried ovel the frontier, there remains an average of 5,261 for the twentj s,..n grays foaled in Italy. In order to show the normous vitality of tlies, grays it may be mentioned thai the now foot year-old daughter of l.c Souvenir, La Paquil . t«...k i-.. i I in twentj six races The record in this , i direction is held bj Ghadames. lo Le Samaritain. He passed the starting gate thirty-five times |«si veai w,.n seven of th - raee was secoad in tea and third in six. Hi- Ills] race lie lau Oil IVbrualw It, at Neap. I. the opening meeting on the Italian turf, ami the lasi on December 1 al Borne, the clowuiy meeUng. of these ; I - i r t . tiv.- performances several - were "over the sticks" and a few steeplechases w proper. This, lu tin recollect! f Italian -i" s | men. wa- nevei before achieved bj * horse of any color, and 1 wonder whether such has ever he B s, lui in England. That h was i n - by a im" and a Herod Is, I should think, convincing prooi of . . . " .en diuai tenacity of this blood, also demon --ti.it. « 1 l,.v the tact thai almost any may descend ut from Le Saacj can be turned Into ■ good chaser. Lets wail and s, , whether Irian, m III. Which Is ill rill.- fettle and in the hands ,,;• OConnor, woo -will als,. ride him in the Grand National, receh •« Ii a special pi . pai .it ion al Bhelms. where his own r has built a special training ground, with fences i exactlj the same nature as those at Aintree will give English br lers a fresh lesson a- t . the eaor inoii- value of Le Sancys bl I for regaining some of the stoutness which nevei will Is? brought forth lo concentrations ill thi fasl able lines uf Leiipse. 1 have a presentiment that Trianon III. will Im a s,.,, ,in! link in tin- chain which ragalie a is i,. gni • a ... k for Hi " ul i less" and help . he i.. : hat appi e, n i inn w bhrh thej n adl Ij i serf. "Boulanger" in London Sitortsmau. •
