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BROSSMANS VIEW OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS. Imps Trainer Says the Good Feeders Are Not Hurt by Frequent Racing. That the American public is anxious to patronize any strenuous exhibition of speed, skill, strength and endurance between properly traineel athletes of about eeiunl capabilities and will not lie denieel the opportunity of witnessing any e-ontest that it believes to be on the level lietween living, breath- I ing. well-trained representatives of any elepurtnie-ut I of athletics where brawn, alertness anel courage are the qualifications tlia.t secure victory, the re-e-e-nt boxing e-ontest between Willarel and Moran at Maelison Square Garden. New York, will fully illustrate, writes C. E. Brossman. The enormous sum taken in at the door demonstrates the desire; of the peeiple to be entertained by conflicts where-the inherent e.ualities and the personality of the athlete produces the winner. It is the same characteristic that makes horse racing the meist magnificent of all sports anel gives it a rigiit to be e-ailed the "Sport of Kings." One horse may look as good and be as. well bred as another, but if it has not that indefinable something born in it called class, its owner can never hope to make a stake horse out of it. Therefore, in purchasing yearlings one should not be guided altogether by appearances. Select rather those by any good stake-wining sire out of mares from a producing family, families where the mares have all produced winners from one generation to another all the way down the line. Many a medium -sized yearling, poor in flesh and a rough coat, has been turned clown at the sale ring and preference given to large, fat. sleek, well-groomed colts and fillies offered by some prominent breeder that knew how to fit his yearlings for the markets, and the next year demonstrate that it was the best of the whole lot. Yearlings should be well grown, healthy, vigorous, have an abundance of exercise, be well taken care of and all that, but I would not turn down a well-formed, well-bred, healthy yearling just because it looked a little ragged in the sale ring. I would prefer to take a chance with a couple of medium -priced ones of that description rather than to put double the price into one that was fat as a Christmas prize steer, stall-fed and not much exercise, for fat covers a multitude of defects anel almost any horse can be made to look well if it can be got fat. The question of how soon anel how often a two-year-old shouleWace is an old one. anel as in other matters connected with the horse training profession no set or fast rule can be laid down that will apply to all cases. It all depends on the constitution and conformation of the individual horse. The trainer should know whether or not his horse is doing well under the treatment it is receiving and, if so. there can be no possible harm in having it race for the money, for a horse owner, like a man in any other kind of business, desires to get his money back as quickly as possible and while he has the opportunity. A child will run anel play and at night cry with the legache. but after a good sleep and a nights rest will be ready for the same play over again the next day. So also will a two-year-old rapidly recuperate and if it is eating well and doing well in the stable, it can be raced short distances freeiuently without any ill effects ever being discernable. The feed box is usually the best criterion to go by. Oftimes a small precocious compact pony-built two-year-old will show to more advantage to be of more value to its stable as a two-year.-old than in any other year, while a large, lank, loose-jointed, growthy colt will take time to develop. Longfellow never raced as a two-year-old . because his owner. John Harper, thought he was too big and awkward to start, aud his stable companion, Lyttleton. a more compact built horse, could always beat him at that age at any rate. Prince Charlie and St. Simon beat him at that age as two-year-olds. Prince Charlie was called the king of the two-year-old course, and St. Simon was never beaten in his subsequent racing career, and when retired to the stud stood at the head of the winning sires in England for nine years. Libertine, by Leonatus. was one of the best race horses of his day. yet he had the misfortune to meet with one of the most peculiar accidents that ever befell a green two-year-old. He started at the St. Louis Fair Grounds in a stake race, his first start: he had been working well and Matt Dunn had him "fit and ready. Just as the horses were going to the post it commenced to rain and for a while it rained so hard that one could scarcely see ae-ross the track. Rain fell in torrents. In those days they started by dropping the flag and had no barrier. Admist the confusion occassioned by the downpour the jockey on Libertine thought the starters flag went down and it was a go, so away he; went iind raced the colt through the driving fain all by himself the entire distance, and did not know that it was no start until he had pulled up at the stand, when the judges sent him galloping back to the post to start over again. When they were finally off Libertine raced gamely and well; the first three horses were right together at the 1— — ii— nnmm— — -— -m— — — finish, but Libertine was third, beaten a half length. That was an extremely strenuous performance for a two-yoar-old in its first race, but he trained on. and the next year. lhM. secured the record for that day. erne mile in l:3S?i. He won during his career on the turf forty-six races and ever 0,000. and ultimately became a successful sire. Abe Frank, one of the best sons of the great Hanover, started fourteen times as a two-year-old. winning ten rae-es anel unplacoel but once, his first start, many of them stakes and at times carrying up to 125 pounds. His phonoin-n:-! career was in-te-rrupted after eight rae-e s w-on in succession by his running away twei and tliree-epiarter miles, carrying 12." pounds, in the Maywejoel Stakes, at Washington Park. Chicago. Many horsemen thought his future was ruined, but he- won meire s;ak-s after his runaway, in his two-year-old form, anel as a three-year-old he won the- Tennessee Club Stakes, the Tenncsse-e Derby anel two other rae-es. He has be-on suee-e-ssful in the stud for the chane-e he has had. being located in Te-xas. where he has only a limited number of good mar -s. yet he has sent to the rae-es a number of high-class winners, among the number be-ing the sensational Pan Zareta, one of the fastest horses in training today. Therefeiro it will be observed that a good two-year-old i-an stand quite a bit of strenuous rae-ing without impairing the- physical or procre-ntive power of the breed. The horse-men themselves are the best judges of such matters, for it wemlel be a foolish owner or trainer indeed that would think of starting a horse when to do so would lie an injury to the animal.
