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REPORTED RETIREMENT OF TRACERY. Dispatches from London say that Tracery is done with racing and is to be retired to the stud. This report may or may not be true. If true, it is of decided interest to know whether this country, England or France is to receive the benefit of his services as a progenitor of others of Ills splendid kind. Other than the will of his owner, there does not appear to lie any reason of particular importance why lie should not be raced for another year. It Is true that he has no future engagements, but he could bo nominated to such important weight-forage events of 1914 as the Coronation Cup, Ascot Gold Cup, Goodwood Cup and the Champion Stakes, .with every present piobability that lie would add them all to bis list of victories. However, in case liis retirement to stud duty has really been decreed. It is to be hoped Mr. Belmont wil have brought back to the land of his nativity for the enrichment of our thoroughbred resources. Bred as he is he can hardly fail to prove signally successful as a sire of the future-. As a mere matter of dollars and cents, England would be the best place to locate him. There owners are accustomed to paying high stud fees and all subscriptions to Tracery would be quickly snapped up. His great rival. Prince Palatine, has already a full list for throe years at ,000 and he would undoubtedly do as well there. In two years of racing Tracery has started in nine races, of which lie won six and was once second, once third and once unplaced. As a three-year-old last year he won the St. James Palace 1 Stakes at Ascot, Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. St. Leger at Doncaster and ran third in the Epsom Derby. This year he won the Burwell Plate ami Champion Stakes at Newmarket and the Eclipse Stakes at Sundown Park. He ran second to Cantilever in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket. His only time of being unplaced was when a weak-minded suffragist rushed out into the track while he was contending for the Ascot Gold Cup and. grasping his bridle, caused him to fall at a moment when his victory seemed assured. A more detailed account of Tracerys performance and his pedigree a icared In Daily Racing Form of October 3. Geueral opinion in England makes him one of the best racers of recent turf history. Ills latest aud probably final performance on the track was when he simply ran awa- from the great horse Long Set in the Champion .Stakes at Newmarket October 14. Ilis condensed record is as follows: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2-1. 3d. Unp. Won. 1912 3 4 3 O 1 0 0.23.- 193 1 5 3 1 0 I 54,850 TotaU 2 J 8 l i 1 04053
