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WHERE THE UNITED STATES BENEFITS. In the immediate future, unless the war speedily comes to an end, it looks as if racing in the United States may be more interesting than that in this country. Thanks to the short-sighted policy, in the first instance, of our government in influencing the Jockey Club to cut down racing here almost to starvation point, wealthy American owners who were wont to have long strings of race horses at Newmarket, Stoc-kbridgo, and other centers are practically confining their operations to the United States. Mr. H. P. Whitney, for example, who for a number of years had a big string in the care of Joyner at headquarters, has now not a single race horse in training in England. Mr. Foxhall Keene, who won the Oaks with Cap and Bells II. and the Goodwood Piute with Sinopi, not to mention other successful bearers of the spotted" Foxhall jacket, has one solitary representative in the three-year-old filly, Puss in Boots II. Another prominent American owner, who, in the past, has been identified with a victory in the Two Thousand Guineas and has won number of other important race;; is Mr. August Belmont, the chairman of the New York Jockey Club. About the time when Norman III. won the Two Thousand for Mr. Belmont the latter generally had about a half dozen horses in training with John Watson at Newmarket. This season, however, Watson has no horses to carry the familiar "scarlet, maroon sleeves, black cap," and Mr. Belmont has recently sent over a score of three-year-olds and yearlings to the United States. These wen; a!! bred in France, and include eight three-year-olds, which have been sent to Belmont Park to be trained for their American engagements. They are all colts, the French government refusing to allow tins exportation of fillies with the exception of yearlings. Among the thirteen yearlings sent out are eight colts and five fillies. Three of the eolts are by Tracery and form part of the first crop got by Rock Sands best son. For the time being the yearlings are quartered at Mr. Belmonts Nursery Stud. London Sportsman.
