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GOOD HORSES AND ACCLIMATIZATION. As far as I have ever been able to make out the best class horses arc- really the worst to take across the Line for racing aajvneaea, or even to countries such as India, where comlitions are wholly different from those experienced by them at home. I have many times nutated out how tiie best Australasian horses imported to England have failed to live up to their reputations here, while comparative commoners have, after reaching England, improved much on their Antipodean form. So. too. it has happened that really good English horses have been sent to India and South Africa with most disappointing results, while hardly soeond-•■lass ones or even selling platers have succeeded Ix-yond expectation. The phenomenon of change, adversely affecting the best seems to obtain all the world over, ami a really astonishing Instance of i occurred when the- great Argentine three -year-old, Pippermint. was want to South Africa a good ataaj .Mars ago. Though lie was in pretty nine h tin sane- latitude as that of his birthplace, lippirmint proved to be absolutedy use less on South African race courses, wbereaa in tie- Argentine he WM quite invincible. So much did those who knew him lie-st think of him. however, that Senor 1nzue took the trouble to bring him back to South AmiTiea. 1 i — red i ted as he was, and lie is. I believe, still with Vat dOr at the San lactate Stud. What set me thinking about all this is the- news that RedfiTii is net making good on the Australian turf. and. it will be- :•. me-mbe-rod. I half antieipated sum such result when the sou of St. Denis was s prem.itiuely exported after Sir William Cooper BMaght liiin. Hail he been left in England unele-r P.laekwe-llV rare R •clfern Might have- troubled e-ve-n Pommerii last year, but the- change to the Antipoch-s si-ems to have- deprived him of his form just as the revert change did in the ease of Noctuiforni when he was imported to England. That Redfern waa in the top class here no one-can, on Ids two-year-old form, deny, and this fact was so far accepted that Sir W. Cooper gave .5.300 gutaeaa for him. but it would have been far better to have kept him in England and entered him for last years Derby and St. Lager as it now turns out. At that time-, however, the machinations of the .Nortlu liffe Press against the Derby had not harae fruit, ami as Redfern was not entered for the Epsom Derby the reason for retaining him in England was not apparent. However. Pommc-rn would probably have beaten him for tin- siibstit.ile races hail he ri-m. lined her.- and Bean fata red for ihein. so thai it K aaaaehhi no great harm was done when he was exnarted and it ii. ay be that be will still do something to justify hi- Bugliah reputation, more-espec dally as his failure- in the race- for the Futurity Stakes ntaj have be-e-ii elm- to his having been knocked about in a railway horse box. as reported in Australian exchanges. The Australian Cup two and one-quarter miles was won. I see, by the New Zealand-bre-d Che-rubini. by Martian son of Martagon and a mare of Sunshine family. I sent out the dam of Martian when e-arrying him to the late Mr. G. G. Stead, and the colt was foaled in New Zealand to English time. He became quite a champion over long distane-es. both in New Zealand and Australia, and now in the former country he is the leading sire-. This son of his. Cherubini. von the New Zealand Derby. Canterbury Cup. Great Northern Derby and Auckland Plate, and has now gone farther afield to campaign witli success in Australia. Wallace by Carbine is still the most successful stallion in Australia. His son. Patrobas, won the Victoria St. I.e-ger. and Aniata, by Wallace out of, Carissima. took the great sprint handicap, the Newmarket Stakes. Nothing couiel be better for Australian bloodstock than that Wallace should keep the old staying line-s on top. Not only is he a tail-maile desi-endant of Musket, but he takes in two Fisherman lines through his dam. and it is a pity that he must in tiie nature of things, lie almost played out now. — "The Special Commissioner" in London Sportsman.
