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WHISK BROOMS GRAND ENGLISH RECORD In returning Whisk Rrooin and the two three yearolds Priuce Eugene and Nightstick to this country Harry Payne Whitney is acting in the same commendable spirit which led August Relmout to order all of his Frenchbred youngsters to be sent over here for sale at public auction the purpose In both cases being the desire to aid in the restoration and upbuilding of American racing Whisk Rrooin was emphatically one of the best horses racing iu England in the course of the last four years Gifted with tremendous speed and a singularly beautiful horse his injection Into American racing will afford an Interesting basis of comparison touching the relative speed of the best horses in England and the United States There Is no question as to what the English oilicial hnndlcappcrs though of Whisk Rroom It was always expressed lii pounds that made him out to be as good as the best For the 15000 Kempton Park Great Jubilee Handicap at a mile and a quarter which will be run May 10 next and is the richest handicap of the English turf Long Set was given 130 pounds and Whisk Eroom 129 Rachelors Hope1 at 122 and its winner last year being next to this famous pair A horse of such high class is bound to lie a great attraction in Now York racing and it is to be sincerely hoped he will retain here the form that made him admired across the big water waterAs As a twoyearold he won a single race in five attempts but ran second to Lemberg in the Midde Park Plate and the Dewhurst Plate His winning race was in the Prince of Wales Plate at York He was unplaced in his first race and also in the Champagne Stakes at Doncastcr As a threeyear old ho ran second to Neil Gow in the Craven Stakes third to Neil Gow and Lombcrg in the Two Thou ¬ sand Guineas second to Willonyx in the Knowsley Dinner Stakes and won the Trial Stakes at Ascot and the Select Stakes at Newmarket When a fou yearold he won brilliant victories in the Sailford Rorough Handicap at Manchester and the Pcveril of the Peak Plate at Derby Last year he won the Victoria Cup at Hurst Park and walked over for the Snailwell Stakes at Newmarket besides running second to Rachelors Hope for the Great Jubilee Han ¬ dicap and to Long Set for the Select Stakes It is to be remembered that almost without expeption his racing jvas against the highest class horses in Eng ¬ land and right worthily did he acquit himself His English record is as follows Year Age Sts 1st 2d 3d Unp Won 1909 2 5 1 2 0 2 5935 1910 3 7 2 2 1 2 5825 1911 4 5 2 1 0 2 DGJO 1912 5 0 2 2 0 2 7COO Totals 4 23 7 7 1 S 29020 29020Prince Prince Eugene is a bay or brown colt by Hamburg Eugenia Rurcli and Nightstick is a chestnut geld ¬ ing by Rroomstick Handspun Roth are maidens but promising threeyearolds and were expected to win this year in England They will do to keep in mind when New Yorks racing comes on
