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BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO RACE HORSES. The first definite step to be taken in connection with the two-year-olds, seven in number, leased by the National Stud to lxird Lonsdale for their racing careers, was announced in yesterdays "Calendar." The report of the meeting of tlie Jockey Club on April 10. published a week ago. included no mention of any discussion of the subject, hut it appears that a resolution was then passed that leases and entries signed by the official director of the National Stud should be recognized, and that such entries are to be made in the name of the National Stud. The director, in question, is. of course. Captain Greer, who on retiring from the stewardship of the Jockey Club at the meeting referred to nominated Mr. Arthur James as his successor. No more competent director than Captain Oreer could have been apiionted, and under his skillful and experienced guidance we may confidently look for the projier development of the National Stud until it assumes a degree of importance at least commensurate with similar establishments in other countries. Presumably, the seven horses leased to Lord Lonsdale- the lease has only just been registered, by the way. will now run in the name of the National Stud, though on that point I am not quite clear. However that may be. it is obviously the intention sooner or later to race the horses reared at Tully under their proper ownership. Hence the necessity for the recently adopted resolution on the part of the Jockey Club, as hitherto vide Rule 79 entries could only lie made in the name of one person, whose interest or projierty in a Iiorse was at least equal to that of any other one person. Thus when horses owned by the Gen.-m government were sent to coiniiete in England they were raced in Count Lehndorffs name, and it will be remembered that when Hammurabi, the property of the Russian Imperial Stud, was over here a few years ago he ran as the nomination of "Mr. Derkul." It will be a decided novelty, therefore, to find horses figuring on the English turf carrying the colors of an influential body instead of those of an individual, and if the prime minister of the day should l c prevailed SBSM to lead ill the winner of sonr- imjiortant event in the future, it would he a happy circumstance. At any rate, the suggestion to this effect conveyed in a clever picture in "Punch" recently is quite callable of fulfillment. Perhaps Mr. Kennedy Jones will oblige in due course. — Augur, in Loudon Sporting Life of April 21.
