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was _ SPEAKS FOR AMERICAN THOROUGHBRED. The views of Charles Bun— a. f rater trainer oi the great racing man Imp, on the breediag of tbomugbltrcd racers, are always Interesting. Comparing the American blood lines with those of the English 1 11 ■■■. Mr. Brossm in handle- the question in this manner: •■The old question as to the relative nierit- of the English and American-bred rase borae seem* to nave bobbed np again, and prominent breeders are discussing. cussing aid writing on the subject with a vehemence that is both Instructive and in jovabie While It i- conceded that America owes everything to the mother country :l ■ producer of the fo. udatian stock, nnd i the acknowledged rradh In which the Infant was rocked. Amerh in breeders have always contended that the splendid olimate, pure air. targe ranges and Insckm* grasses • f thi- e.Miutrv have all contributed to produce .1 horse superior to any la the world. If the Eng-Ubh, in their exchtstveneas, have burred the name 1 • . . • _ - of the great Lexington, the best horse in the opinion ol most American breeders, that ever trod turf or paddock in this coaatry, from their stml Imok. it -imply Indicates the character of the Brit- 3 i-h. They want to be rulers of the sea, the arbiter- of the loinnieree of the world and controllers of everything that there is any moaey in. When the scion of their broken down, runout, effete noble families marries a wealthy. handsome, healthy American girl, they really imagine that he is doing the young lady a favor. Man makes the stud book, and can bar a pedigree if the com- mittce so decide, but the Almighty creates the race horse and nature reproduces these indefinable valuable qualities that every winner must have. so that ■ weak place or a yellow streak will soon be shown and detected by the performaace of some Of the family on Hie race track. "It is the -eere test that shows the tlaws and brings OOt the weakness in anything. There are lew Americans whose genealogy can be traced in Burkes Peerage, yet the names of Washington. Jefferson, Jackson. Lincoln and Wilson will stack up in history as men of action, capacity and worth. Numerous great horses in times g "no by have had their pedigree- assailed and the genuiic-in— of the same questioned both in this coaatry and in England, the great English Eclipse being among the number. Intense and bitter rivalrv existed between the faction that believed ill the , superiority of Highflyer, son of Herod, and the one that exalted the excellence of Eclipse. When Sir Peter, by Highflyer, won the Derby and an Eclipse wa- second and third, great was the rejoicing in the camp of Highflyer. Rut oKclly. the owner of Eclipse, and his friends had their revenge through Alexander. King Fergus. Merearv and Joe Andrews, and it i- related that upon the death of Eclipse, » Kelly employed a poet to fiing defiance at the Highflyer crowd. One of the verses runs as follows: "■True oer the tomb in which this favorite lies, No vaunting boast appears of lineage good; Yet the Turf Registers bright page denes The race of Herod to show better blood." •■Hie same rivalry exists today and the only way to tell whose theory of breeding is best is to see which one can uet to the wire lust and the public will quickly make fashionable the horses from any farm that gathers in the most of the desirable prises en the race track. A- a matter of fact. Americans have always done reasonably well when racing on the other side: horses bred in this country have won many of their most famous events and it will be found that there is and has been good and bad horses in both countries. The Mending of the best English blood with our best native strains will certainly result in a great improvement in the thoroughbred. •The late Mr. .lames R. Keelie was generally considered to be one of our most successful tttrf- men 11 ml breeders. His greatest success was o b- rained by breeding highly bred Imported English mares to stoutly bred and highly-tried American race horses, and through the blood of Domino and his sons th ■ Castleion stud acquired cverla-ting fame and won many races, both in this country and abroad. ••Dominos pedigree contains three crosses to Lexington— two through his daughters, Hira. dam of llimyar. and Eida. dam of Enquirer, and a third through War Dance, one of the best sons of Lexington. One of the most valuable horses ever Imported into this country was iloneoo. As a race borne he was one of the best in England, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas in 1834. It is remarkable that the British ever consented to have Mm leave the country. By the term- of the sale Glencoe made a season in England before lie was exported and in that single season be made a more lasting Impression anon the Mood of the Baa;-lisli horse than any other horse of his generation. His blood seems to breed on and accumulate strength, power and speed. With each succeeding generation, whether in the male or female line. it i- most valuable wherever found in any pedigree. Ih Lexington-Glencoe combination, however it was twisted around, seemed to produce race horses of the ii-tela— wherever the blood Was mingled. Before Glencoe was exported he sired the famous I oca boat as. whose winning desecendanta would till a volume and thr ugh StoefcweH, King Tom. Rata-: plan and her iimtin -rous daughters she has left a progenj whose names enter into most of the best pedigrees in England today. Therefore, with horses to lay our breeding foundation like Sir Anliy J, -ton. Lexington. Vandal. Virgil. Hanover. Long-5 fellow, Glencoe, Leamington. Eclipse. Prince Charlie. Order and many others equally as good, our INHiition, for th,. present, at least. is secure, and if the fanatics and bandwagon politicians will leave the btisinesss alone we will be able to breed a class ,f hordes bene in America that will be the peer Ot any in the world."
