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GREAT BRITAINS NATIONAL STUD. I did not knew when I was writing about the policy which the director of a national stud might adopt that apt. Greer was in effect following on that line, but the announcement that lie has -cut a mare to Tidal Wave is conclusive on the point. Here i- a thoi-onghly genuine stayer, and the -on of a stayer, but net within the charmed circle of fashion. All that I wrote a- to the value of Tor-point from a national point of view might equally be applied to Tidal Wave, which when lie won the ; id Vase .it Asea4 by five lengths from Jackdaw then at the top of his form I mast have been in tie highest class. Moreover, he ha- a lot of Herod bl 1 Hose up in hi- pedigree, viz.. Buccaneer twieei. Parmesan twice, and Macaroni. Capt. • Jreer i- to be congratulated on having 11-ecl -ueh a horse as this, nor Caa he have made any mi-fake in patronising Cylgad, one f the sssst powerful ami truly shaped borses at the -tud. In a show ring he weald certainly beat any other son of his -ire. Cyllene. and he i- by an A-cot Cup winner ■ nit of an Alexandra Plate winner. That is the kind of race coarse test which make- for the butting improvement of the breed. There can be no doubt that Royal Realm is another horse of ah- -lutely the right sort for national panoses, but I confess to sssne doubt- alM.ut Night Hawk. It is straage how man; 1 pie have failed to aaderstaad that the Tally Stud i- to be maintained for breeding thoroughbreds of as high . la— a- po— ible. ju-t a- the Qradita and Ki-her Studs have been maintained these many year-. A time may ea-ily come when breeding NSSdstock will be far beyond the asanas of any but the richest individual-, and that is when the value of the national -tud will be fully appreciated. Great Sport is a hor-e which I expect Capt. Greer will not hesitate to use freely, a- he i- ju-t the sort to sire first-rate country stallions. — "The Special Commissioner in London Sportbuiun.
