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H. D. PERSSE S OPINION OF THE TETRARCH. in England recentlj some dawaaahM interested turf circles, the discussion dealing with tin- problem en whether the plien.mienal two-yea r-ohl, the Tct- raieli. would have proved :1 -Layer, bad he stood training through a nger rarJag career. In the long ran the muter was referred to his able trainer, H. D, Persse, and elicited from him the . dlowing entertaining statement, as !•• what constitutes ctaying, as well as to hi- opinion of fin Tel 1 11 lis capabilities: ••As regards being able to determine whether a horse stays or not. you eaa lake it from me that it is one of tin- hardest tilings to discover at home. f am 11 t aBndittg to the genuine slayer. which will stay on under pressure and outrun another lii.r-e which apparently has the beatlag of him a half mile ii h.ai.e. There an- various reasons for this one l e*ng Cat a large number of horses after two yean of age refuse to do their i.e-t at home. Another reason is that in order t-« ail a true- te-t in a. -oo l gallop Iroui end to end it is neceaaan to have several other horses that 1:111 dtay taking par: in it. A third n-as a is thai in my 1 xperienee of the present day raee horse !•■-,-. of in in have th.- constitution to stand much two-mile work, and I have often had to train iiorse-s for long-distance races which they have v . a .1:1 the lightest ol 1 reimratioa . !■ r pxj an easy mile one day, a harp live- furlongs another, and. say. now and then a Ualf-apeed mile and a quarter. •Ill to is n •;eMid in tryinir horses till they are practically lit. and often e dare- not string a horse on; say. over nm miles some- days before the races r 1 fear of his not eating up afterwards and leaving the rue at home. .s regards The rctrarch, it is a weU-known axiom thai anything will stay at iis own pace, and otaying, alter till, is only relative. Von ask me whether Tin- Tetrarch Waa a Stayer 1 Ho you meaa Was he a horse that iii. s.iy. m two-mile race, had something nh nL.rshio of hi 1 going equallj well ami was capable of run aittg him out of the raee": If you mean that, mj answer to you i-. I have not the remotes hlea, for the -iniple reason that 1 have lever vol had a horse that, in my opinion, at any reasonable weight, was capable- of extending him over anj Journey. i never seal him a real ~ooei gaUon further than a mile and a quarter. At thai distance, carrying anything from fourteen pounds to twentj eLiii I than The Tetrarch. neither Bachelors Wedding nor L.ni.i of Song could gel oat of hi- way. n n in I. c ■ Wedding was :, prettj useful sort • »r horse- ai home, and in- won the Irish Derby ran over a levere mile an 1 a, half I and the Viceroys lip. Laud -I s ma was only beaten a head by Black Jester for third plaice in the- Guineas, after having been nearly knocked down at the start, lie won a d i ice -iiliseipienllv at S.-il :-1 my in addition to the Irish Iii.v. in Australia he showed, shortlj ifter land inur there, some- extremely good form, winning iw i Idu races, ami was. I understand, considered the- Itcsi four-year-old out then-. I once s a1 The Tetrarch :i mile and a hall, giving a II of weight to Land of Song and Koyal Wearer, and though : they were only goiag a taree-parts speed jrailop p - in- c mill see- thai he- was simply playing with tl l. I considered land of Song a n-ally nseful three-year-old aad a goad stayer, and had it been possible to run him for e-itlu-r the Derby or the e Leger 1 think he would have- ha. I a fair chance of I Winning- Anyway, he would not have been very v far away rrom tin- winner Durbar li.i. "My opSaoa is that ove-r any distance The Tetrarch was twcaty-etgbl pounds in front of either r Bachelors Wedding .-r Land of Song, for the simple reason that they would not have been capable ,. c! extending him. 1 commenced by raying I had ,1 no idea whether he was a genuine stayer, in the ,. accepted meaning f tin- word, or not. There was H no reason why In- shoald not have- stayed, and d every le-ason why he should have d me so. both h fiv-ni his breeding an I conformation. Anyone who declares be araa a non stayer is simply uiikinu nonsense. One thing y -a can take- irimi no- as certain, and that is that there was no three-year-old in IJM I which w mill have- been capable cf extending h!m over any distance."
