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v t e • - d 1 ■d e to ,. t .s of .r 1 of if n 0 ,. Is is s BARRING THE GELDING IN AUSTRALIA. ll is understood Ihe Australian Jockey Club will lobar the nomination of geldings lor future St. labels as well as Derbys, and. io be consistent, such a step was necessary. In the past it cannot le said the states blood sto.-k suffered through i our "classics" being open to geldings, but I am afraid the new order of things cannot otherwise than have a bad effect. It must lead to an increase in the number of Indifferent stallions travelling Ihe country, and at different times there has been n considerable outcry on that score from 1 ide who . i.e.-, uphold the action of the Australian .bx-kev Club. Theoretical!] ■■ Dorin winner should he capable of improving any countrys blood stock, but. in taet. several Australian Jockey Club Derbys s have been won by horses to which suhseqnentlv . tree siine would not ha v» twin accepted for a fair ,■ n. are. The alteration was unnecessary in the fir-t place, and the mere f:i t that such conditions gov or 1 the Fnglis.i Dorbv should have carried no o weight hen. A couple of years ago the South Afri-,r j. can Derby was thrown open to geldings, as il was - found tin- conditions which debarred them from competing was assisting to overran the country with h stallions, many of an undesirable class. — Sydney Referee.
