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MADDEN DISSENTS WITH NEW RULE. Lexington. Ky.. January 14. — John I". Madden, the master of Hamburg Hues, who is one of this countrys most successful horsemen, is not favorably impressed with the course of the members of The Jockey Club who put the ban on two-year-olds now racing at the winter tracks, or. as Madden puts it. engaged in southern racing, for he argues that it is their time of the year for racing. "They could no more hold races at Juarez, Havana. New Orleans and Tin Juana in June and July." said he. "than they could at Belmont Dark in February or March." "Will the ruling of The Jockey Club, in your opinion, benefit the breed of the thoroughbred?" h# was asked. "I do not think that the change from January 1 to April 1 will in any way lienefit the breed." he replied. "Had the date been made July 1 instead of April 1. the experiment might meet with some degree of success and be worth while, but to prepare a two year-old for his April engagements on the often-frozen tracks of Long Island against the watch would prove more disastrous to the youngsters than would January racing in the south, at three-eights of a mile, without strip or spur." "Will the ruling ever abolish two-year-old racing in the south.-" "Decidedly not. As far as southern racing is concerned the new ruling is fortunate, for the class of two-year-olds at those early meetings will be more even. The owners of yearlings of such promise as were Old Rosebud and Hawthorn will not take any chances of their coming under the ban. The s inthern associations should welcome the new rule. There will be more material for southern racing next year than ever before. Yearlings which show high class in their trials will be reserved for the lug northern meetings that commence after April 1. Southern racing associations will offer purses and stakes for two-year-olds just as long as they believe they can fill them. It must lie remembered that Texas and Missouri are largely represented in the list of thoroughbred breeders, and these breeders wain to see their two-year-olds race without going hundreds of miles away from home. Barring the eastern tracks, the two year-olds that race in the south before April 1 will have no bad effect on them, and there are tracks elsewhere that do not follow the ruling when these two-year-olds can earn their brackets until southern racing is renewed the next year. The large number of asportations will also help to increase the fields from which the south will draw for two-year-olds." Asked for his views on the subject off the government taking up the breeding of army horses on a large scale. Mr. Madden said: "I do not approve of it. The farmers throughout the country will be able to supply any demand in time of war, especially since the New York Jockey Club and the Kentucky Racing Commission have placed thoroughbred stallions at the disposal of the farmers in many localities." Asked how he would proceed to produce the type required and Iff the fanners nave the right kind of mares, Mr. Madden replied: "There is on such thing us an established type in the half-bred. The crossing of the thoroughbred horse on mares of totally different breeding re--uli- In a great variety of type, so many are the sources to which the foal may revert. It is not to be expected that the farmers will dispose of the mares they now possess and replace them with sues bred on the lines proposed by some theoretical u r iters. "The thoroughbred stallion will cross better on the general type now owned by the farmers than stallions off any other breed. The draft mares tired to the thoroughbred stallion will produce splendid artillery horses and an occasional fine hunter. The artillery horse, when properly selected, is a better horse than he is accredited. He should be fifteen and three quarters or sixteen hands, with form, substance and weight, and be competent to gallop freely with a gun. The regular draft and broncho horse does not answer these requirements. "The hackney, the trotter, the saddle horse and the Morgan mares, especially the hackney, will furnish excellent cavalry horses at I price remunerative to the farmer."
