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. s .. h r. u !, „ ,r ,, of I l. — „ ,] ,. ». ■ ii it it •s I n -. n l- — y to o .e d of if r by y a a k n — *1 i ie i. DECREASED RETURN OF ENGLISH RACING. When you find an owner of race horses heading the list for the season with a total of 1915.sh7,730, as Mr. L. Xeumann lias done this year, the difference lietween a normal campaign and that of 1015 is forcibly brought home to one. Last year Mr. J. 15. Joel was at the toji with nearly 55.000 — more than twice the amount wliich served the same purpose at the close of the campaign a few days ago. Mr. Astor was second in 1014 with .000. Mr. Hulton third with about 5,000, the late Iord Cadogan fourth with 1,501. Sir Ernest Oisscl fifth with 1915.sh5,000. his majesty sixth with S.5 K, and Col. Hall Walker next with 0,500. Thus no fewer than seven owners were credited with five-figures amounts, and by way of contrast this year there are only two — Mr. Neumann aud Mr. S. B. Joel — who between them amassed 24,410, or about 5,000 less than Mr. J. B. Joel put toogcther "on his own" in 1914. Tile figures quoted provide the most eloquent testimony possible to the difference between racing as we have known it for so many seasons, and as it has lieen during the troublous year which is now so rapidly drawing to a close. The same features, of course, are observable right through the long series of statistics, and it is a striking fact that a score of sixty-one has sufficed to place Donoghue at the head of the jockeys, and that the modest totals of thirty-six " and thirty-five were good enough to enable F. Bullock and Bickaby to claim second and third positions. It is seldom, indeed, that leadership among the jockeys is attained without something well over a hundred successes having been achieved, and Don-•1 oghuo last season won more than double the sixty- t two which landed him so far ahead of his nearest rivals this time. Time was wiien nearer two hnn-n drcd than one was necessary, and Fred Archer fre-1. qucntly exceeded the second century: but those days are no more, the advantage enjoyed by apprentices and the wider nan afforded to riders of all grades having served to destroy anything in the shape of a "cornering" of interests. There has been an exceedingly close and interest-1- ing fight for leading position au:oug the trainers, iu which Grasslands victory in the first race on Friday turned out to lie the deciding factor. When Charles Morton retired not long ago from pursuit of the profession he has so long adorned, Mr. J. B. Joels horses were transferred to the care of Charles Peck, who was thus enabled to make considerable additions to the total compiled by his famous charge. Poniniern. The latter grand colt ought to have headed the li-t single-handed for his trainer, but differences in the values of the New Derby and September Stakes as compared with the Epsom l » rby and Doneaster St. Leger were too great to | ermit of this lieing the case. However, as I have already remarked, the arrival of Mr. .1. B. Joels bsjtaaa from Wantage gave Charles Peck a further opix.rt unity, and so well has he done with them that he now finds himself in the highest ncakttaa. Messrs. Gilpin. It. C Dawson and George Lambton have all five-figure scores to their names, and ho-d tween the master of Clarehaven and C. Peck it was a close finish. — "Augur." in London Sporting Life of Novemlior 1.
