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TAKING INTEREST IN OUR RACING. During the next two or three jears, if not for a longer period than that, English racing folk will he greatly interested in the doings of British-bred stock in America. Disastrous as have been the effects of the war on the racing and breeding industries of this country and France, they have brought about a degree of attention on the part of American sportsmen which, while it causes us a certain amount of alarm for the future, is certainly lettering. Indeed, as 1 wrote not long ago. then-has been a remarkable reversal of positions between our American friends and ourselves. Yearlings bred in the United States were shipped over here in considerable numbers while the faddist element wa enjoying itself in the land of the stars and stripes; now that our own representatives of this obnoxious species of humanity hold sway our best yearlings have been taken away wholesale ami mainly to the Fnited States. There is, after all. a sort of poetic justice in the turn that matters have taken in this direction, because we used to, in our self-satisfied way. express sympathy with our American cousins. which was an easy process considTing that we never for a moment believed that a similar state of repression could exist in England, the ancient homo of sport. We know better now. however, and realize thai the warnings based on the experiences of American sportsmen were only too well founded and thai tlie ant i-e very thing-that-provides-pleasurable-reerc. • tion element iu our midst is just as powerful m this country as on the other side of the Atlantic We must not. therefore, indulge !u any undii ■ repining over the losses we have recently sustained in the shape of exportations of numerous highly bred yearlings and other classes of bloodstiek. but rather look forward with eager anticipation to hearing from time to time that the exiled animals are upholding, with every credit, their lineage as well as the reparation of their native land. In France, owners and breeders have had even greater difdcnlites to contend with, and they, of course, have also lost many highly bred young horses in consequence of the brisk demand from America. That the advent of so many thoroughbreds from England and France is causing tremendous interest in American racing circles wil tie readily understood. It will be of some interest, perhaps, to give the names conferred on certain of the yearlings bought at Newmarket in September by Mr. Charles Patterson on behalf of Mr. Frederick Johnson. Mr. Pat terson has a great reputation as a good judge of tin- thoroughbred and this he fully hsatMed in Ibe course of his dealings at the ringside at Newmarket. The Polynielus— Fvadue colt baa boon named Greek Legend; the son of R. i 1 1 erode and Alphabet, Royal Writ; and the bay by Cicera Selinotte, Words o Wisdom. Spear Lance is the name given to the Spearmint — Snoot colt: Omar Khayyam to the Marco LtSBSB colt, and All Star to 1 he Manstar — Falling Star yearling. The name of one of oar own celebrities. Bachelors Hope, has been tHkeu for the chestnut son of Tredennis and Ladytown, and it is to Ik- hoped that this youngster will do as well for his new owner as his elder relative here. — "Augur" in London Sporting Life.
