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I • . I WINNING SIRES IN ARGENTINA. i Mention of Diamond Jubilee reminds me that the * late King Edwards "triple crown" winners position 11 at the head of the list of Winning stallions iu the " Argentine for 1916 aeeeas fully assured. According 3 to "Kl Jockey" of December s. the son of St. Simon n and Perdlta II. was then a long way ahead of his s nearest rival. Old Man. with a total of 3S.632 - P Bade amassed by hi- stock in exactly seventy S races. Old Man. which was hriil out there, an J 1 is by the Eclipse Stakes winner. Orbit, out of • Metenoaaeaae, by Dollar, comes second with forty-niue - race- worth 2*. If? p unds. so that he had ovr * ten thousand pounds to Win in less than four weeis a to equalize with Diamond Jubilee, a well-nigh iin- i- possible task even in the Argentine, where they y race all the year round. It may he as well here e to explain that the Argentine dollar is of nothing « like the value of Hie F. S. A. dollar, the latter being worth, roughly, four shillings and tnwpeeee, whereaa the so called Argentine dollar peso i-worth i- cmly one shilling and eightpence farthing i-lj _ cents.. rylVnar stood third at the begiuuing of la -1 • t mouth with tilty-iour victories of the atjjresatu u of ,f - be ,p ls * M IS e value of 23. 503 pounds. There are two other stal- lions which have nroa nearly 20.000 pounds apiece. Val dOr and Druid, and seven more with from about 10. 000 pounds f.. is. 000 pounds each, not to mention the smaller fry in the first thirty on the winning list, so that there is plenty of money to be won out there. — Loudon Sportsman.
