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OUR PROSPECTS PLEASING TO ENGLAND. It is good ti. learn that racing in the United State-is once again prospering, in spite of the faddists ; who ■ few years back were responsible for antl betting legislation of so drastic a character thai ► it caused many owners aud breeders of thoroughbreds cither to betake themselves and their horses to other ! countries or to sell oti altogether, in the result tin uorst breeding industry in tbe states was* so badly crippled that, but for tl aergy and liberality of 1 some ot the leading men on tbe American turf not only racing would bare •••une to an end, bul also the rarioua breed- of horses which are based oa the ; thoroughbred. The position in regard to the army h.rs,. siippu became s,, critical a couple of veins ai that, but for the assistance of some of the promineni owners and breeders referred to -who gar valuable thoroughbred stallions away for the purpose "I siring haif-breda -the home supply of ■ horses for army remounts in the U. S. A. would ■ have become exhausted. Anti-gamblers are never -o happ.l as when stalin- thai betting i- a parasitical growth, which should lie not only kepi severe I] in check, but entirely cut away by means of r. press! ve legislation. So closely entwined, however with horse racing, is the inborn betting instinct thai wise men Ion:. a:;., realized that the rety life . 1 the turf and indirectly, the welfare of the as branches of our horse-breeding Industri is dependent on recognition of that fact. Already there , bas been more than sufficient legislation in regard I to betting in our once "Merrie England.* all of it r framed with the Idea of "curbing the irrepressible." • For thai the gambling or betting Instinct i- lire pressble i- i .t.rit to anyone that cares i" studj tb history of tbe human race. This has seemingly at lasl been ascertained, as , result of the prolonged I struggle between tbe antl-gamblerg and the racing n and horse breeder- of tile United State-, for. instead of bookmakers thej now bare for example, ■in tbe race courses of the sine of Ken tuck] tbe pari inutile Su t.u i he Installment of the par mum.! -v-iiin li.i- not lie.-n Interfered with by crank] legislators and tin- present increasing pros pcriu of racing in Kentucky bas nab been made possible bj the enthusiasm with which raei goers a there have taken t.. nari-rautuel betting and the con seqiieuiiv increased attendance al the various meetings. Put for ibis The New Loiiisv lie Jockey Hub i w..iil,l not. I think, be now in a position to gire 2.000 sovereigns in added money !• their chief race • of the coming summer, .the Kentucky Derby; nor r would the Douglas Park authorities be able toso en dow the Kentucky Handicap that the owaer of tbe winner win receive almost ?,O00 sarereixns. The B minor raeaa, too, axe ail of greater advertised valuo i this year than last, and all this goes lo SSjaW ill coii- viuclng fashion thai some form oi wagering i absolutely essential not only to the prosperity of the lull, but hiss to the eon ti nuance of the national supply of horses for military and other purposes- -"Vlgilaat" in Loudon Sportsman.
