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i , , t i | 1 | i « i i ! i l I I i i 1 t r , • I :" l I ■ i l i - - - * - RIVALRY WILL BE KEEN NEW YORK RACING TO HAVE REAL INTER. NATIONAL FLAVOR NEXT SEASON. Importation of High-Class Thoroughbreds from England and France to Give Impetus to Sport on Race Courses of the Metropolis. New York. December 25. — With the infusion of some of the best thoroughbred blood of England and France, which will shortly be injected by the in- elusion of youngsters ami others of royal lineage which Americans and Canadians have purchased abroad, the turf of this country must improve, as it will through such strains that the breed will be bettered, despite the feeling of loyality to stallions and broodmares typically American. While it is conceded that breeders and breeding establishments are ever in need of stallions to aid iu the propagation of their kind, the demand for broodmares is certain to become greater with racing on the plane to which it has been raised by" the interest of sportsmen who are going in for that undeniably useful hobby, horse breeding, with a sincerity of purpose which has marked their successful accomplishment of matters in the commercial and financial worlds. There is little doubt that these stallions and broodmares have been imported here by members of the New York Jockey Club, primarily in the hope that tliey will improve breeding generally, and secondarily, in the expectation that they will be en- abled to breed colts or fillies which may lower the colors in racing tests of rivals, and eventually lead to the point of having their strains imparted to the race horse of the near future to such a degree that credit will be reflected upon the efforts of those standard bearers for the improvement of the type. That there will tie the finest sort of rivalry next year between the owners of English and French bred two-year-olds as against the typical American and Canadian youngsters goes without saying, and while the latter type has been somewhat bandi-l capped in recent years by the curtailment of racing tests lie is fast coming into his own again, and by mid-sunfmer of next year the international contests will toe well under way for really the first time in American racing history. What is admittedly Englands loss as far as the partial depletion of her stock of broodmares and future stallions is concerned must reflect itself in Americas gain in the establishment of a better type here, as when all those which have been pur- chased abroad are registered with the Jockey Club it will be found that sires and dams will be in- eluded which have made their names famous iu the winning of English classics and handicaps, to say nothing of the descendants of French stars as well.
