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RACING AN ABSOLUTE ESSENTIAL. The • fleets of th curtail! g of racing In England, says tbe Sydney Australian "Referee." is evidence Itself of the fact that racing keens the thoroughbred up to iis very highest standard. While the game is continued love »his country will get the benefit of :t lot of good Mood coming from England but if racing wire wiped out in England the thoroughbred would depreciate so rapidly that the supilv ..; rood horses would certainly fall right away. Something should all be said about the character of tbe men who are engaged la breeding and using the th roagbbred for racing purposes. The greater pari of the transactions of these en 1 1 1 ii - i n - J show U seen, but tha line big spirit which keens the business ol breeding and the gaaae of racing going on never seems to he dulled by reverses. if the cranks could have their own wa. ;his splendid tribute to the British race would be so dis-coaarged that it must eventually be wiped out of the character of the people.
