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ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN BREEDING That horse racing in the States is now well on the road to complete recovery from the setback of a few years ago caused by the repressive antibetting laws Is made more than over manifest by the stal ¬ lion advertisements in the American sporting papers In a prominent weekly consisting of twelve pages no fewer than six are filled with advertisements of sires of the asoit That American owners of stallion as a bod are more alive to the advantages of bold advertist nent than owners on this side of the Atlantic Is s own by the much greater promi ¬ nence of their an oiincoinonts Displayed advertise ¬ ments of tfom a sixteenth to a quarter or half a column i er horse are tiiu rule with iu practically every case a tabulated pedigree showing each horses ancestry to the third or fourth remove and the stallions name in war type also full details of the performances of himself and his chief sons and daughters on the race course Perhaps the most reassuring thing in connection with the boom in advertising stallions consists in the fact that a number of the chief breeders although themselves race horse owners are offering their best stallions for public service for this insures the improvement of the breed at large iu that it stimulates compe ¬ tition In the result small owners of race horses will before long be in a better position to compete with the big stables than used to bo the case Mr August Holmont for example who was recent Iv reelected chairman of the Jockey Club advertises four good stallions for public service at modern to fees Trap Kock a brother to Tracery cannot be dear at forty sovereigns for be was a good winner Neither can Vulcain by regarded as expensive at twenty sovereigns Hy Kock Sand Lady of the Vale by Rend Or Vulcain was lired in France in l lt and it will be remembered was backed for our Derby hut met with a mishap and was not sent over He ran only as a threeyearold and won throe races out of four fourMr Mr Whitney too is placing five stallions at tbe service of the American public from Peter Pan am Broomstick each at 100 sovereigns which seems to lx the top fee out there to Whisk Hrooiu and imported All Cold at 0 sovereigns and Burgo ¬ master at 20 sovereigns Then there Is Messrs Headley and Millers crack stallion Uncle by Star Shoot at 100 sovereigns Not an unreasonable fee for twelve of bis fifteen starters in the States have among them won 57 races worth over 12000 sovereigns And so the list goes on right through some fifty or more stallions many with much English blood in their veins and there is no doubt that before long racing will once more have re ¬ gained tho high level at which it stood before the crossgrained Puritan element adminsterod a tem ¬ porary knockout In order to earn on success ¬ fully breeders and owners out there will IH bound to have constant recourse to this side for the pur ¬ pose of revivifying their bloodstock Altogether tho outlook for Hrltish breeders is highly satisfac ¬ tory now that tho Americans have fully realised the paramount importance of the thoroughbred as tho foundation of their national horse supply for military purposes Iong before the present war broke out farseeing men lamented the folly of tho antlraciug and antlbettlug ellnnes but the bulk of the nation paid no heed Now however the titanic struggle on the Continent has taught Ine Sam his lesson and In tho years to come English and Irish breeders should find In the States a let ¬ ter market than ever before London Sportsman
