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J p r, 1 11 s c t S d o of n 3 c a t t d 1 li a v p t r t " 1 o of y o o t o of p ii 11 11 d h a I I s o 1 t s so h n a as t b f o a NEWMARKET SALES AND JULY RACING. An Authoritys View in Regard to Features Marking the First July Meeting at "Headquarters." j For a variety of reasons, the Newmarket First .Inly meeting was about the most successful and pleasing turf reunion of the year in England. The racing was marked by interesting incidents and the S xpectedly good results for the sale of bloodstock proved highly pleasing and heartening to all concerned. In a review of the sales and racing on the evening of the last day of the meeting "The Special Commissioner," W. B. Allison, said in London Sportsir.au: "Successful sales lepreseutcd the leading feature this week at Newmarket, and this was not n merely a question of a few long prices, of which 1 1 3,000 guineas was the highest, for there was a very i considerable volume of middle-class business done, ami this augurs well for the future. Moreover ii though a good many lots were bought for America, these were not the most valuable ones, and as the y North-country has been going quite strong of late, s despite the absence of any fixtures North of the s Trent, it was no matter of surprise to find Col- ji in ling among the principal buyers. Nor is there of anyone belter qualifed to pick a good yearling, f which to all of us is and must ever be a bit of a puzzle. J, "Reverting to the sales. I must needs mention c; the National Studs initial venture, which proved o remarkably successful, and in my humble opinion 1 the best yearling of the week was their filly by ;i AVliite Eagle out of Colonia. It. is impossibly to I n "fault" the 3.1100 guneas Polynielus colt, but b Ibis Colonia filly has the indefinable character greatness which I have; rarely seen in any yearling. La Fleehe had it. Sceptre had it, John q Gaunt, had it. but I can call to mind few others , that struck me in the same way; and it is a case a a instinct rather than considered judgment when y one seems to know and see right through the com- ing time that here, for sure, is a great win- 1 ner. 1 have written in high praise of many and K many a yearling, and results have not seldom been i, disappointing, but it has never been so when the ;1 halo of siiperexcellnee has seemed to be then;, f and instinct, not reason, recognizes it. AVell. now. ij have written thus about the Colonia filly, and ;1 stand to be shot at if she docs not justify my i, opinion of course, provided that she lives and .., thrives. It is really more than satisfactory that j. these Natonal Stud yearlings should have done , well and given the Government a first taste of j to blood in tie; shape of hard cash. They were by 1 no means all the yearlings from the fully Stud, there are a number of others there, and. with f the exception of the Colonia filly, they are the r best. These will no doubt be leased later on for their racing careers, unless indeed, they are j offered for sale in September. "Many people seem to have thought that the notice j about the colts requiring a permit from the Board ., of Agriculture before they could ever be exported , f from the United Kingdom applies to them only s b but, as a matter of fact, no thoroughbred of either s sex can be exported without such a permit. The t difference probably is that, whereas in ordinary f c cases the permit is given almost as a matter of ; course, in this case, for a particularly promising ? stallion, it would probably be refused, and intend- J 1 ing buyers were therefore quite properly reminded . " of the condition. J. "Few people who have not had experience of ex- j 1 porting horses have any idea of the numbers of j formalities that have to be observed before ship- . menl can take place, but I have never known permits refused except for export, to a neutral conn- ; try, which might conceivably pass on the stock . J to enemy buyers. There will be no end of trouble , in getting all the papers together to ship Mr. , !. II. Brownes purchases of this week, but Mr. f 1 Leach, F. II. C. V. S., is already at. work mak- . ing out their identification certificates, in which j every distinguishing mark is set down, and this : alone is no light task, for the certificates and f the animals are compared by official veterinary surgeons when they reach America, and if then , be any discrepancy the animal is turned down and 1 not admitted for racing or the Stud Book until the j matter is cleared up. I knew one case in which two American vets claimed that the English cer- tificate was wrong, and in the face of two re- ports the English vet was half inclined to think , that he must have made a mistake. Lilt hi; turned . out after all to be rght and the other two wrong, , which was really quite strange, as their reports , were made independently of one another. "Nassovian is the hero of the week, so far as ; racing goes, and it is quite certain that he is a j vastly improved colt, being altogether more robust than he was in his earlier stages of development. . In fact, he is following much on the same lines as his sire, William the Third, did at the same age, for AVilliam the Third was a lathy customer in the first half ot his three-year-old season, and never came to himself until the summer of the following year, when he won the Ascot Cup." Nassovian is developing somewhat faster, but he, too, is likely to see his best day as a four-year-old. Yesterdays Itig race was no more than an exercise gallop for him, and it will be a mistake to think too much of Blackadders performance in finishing second to him. The field, in the absence of Kwang-Su. was a wretched one, and something was hound to be second. Nassovian himself will make a race with a donkey, and he had an incalculable amount in hand. I saw Butters this morning, who said in effect that the colt is all the liettcr for his race. A most interesting "War" St. Leger now confronts us. and Kwang-Su will bv that time be all right again, let us hope. There is no certainty that Hurry On will not be upsides with the last of them by that time, and then there will be the good fillies. "Certain persons persist in the belief that the three-year-olds oT this season are moderate. I am equally persistent in my often expressed belief that they are distinctly good, though as for as Nassovian I hasten to admit that I did not like him in his yearling days. Grand Fleet, the Dark . Dinah colt, came to grief when he tackled Kimts-ford yesterday, and it may be that the latter ought to have won at Newbury, but I am sure it is a mistake to think that Grand Fleet was overdone in being asked to run a second time in three days. ! Those who formed this opinion were not down at the finish of his first race, and thought he was I hard pressed because he was not well placed in the early stages. 1 was near the winning post, and j never was a race won more easily, when once Grand Fleet got on terms. Moreover, he was second best - to Knutsford, which has all the appearance of a . - classic horse, with none of the bulkiness of his sire, Swynford. I expect the Sautoi colt, which I is beat him at Newbury, will prove to be something 1 in the nature of a smasher, for he was certainly i far from his best on that day, though it may have 1 been the Santoi excitability that caused him to I sweat and lather so freely as he returned to the t paddock after his race. "But what are we to say of Diadem after her , runaway victory in the Fulbourne Stakes today, ; giving nine pounds to Pamfleta, which could only " finish third V This is great form indeed, for Sunset Glow, also in receipt of nine pounds, was sec- e ond, beaten three lengths; but one does not ex- 1. peet an Orby to stay well, and I suppose Diadem I. will prove no exception to this rule. Pamfleta, - we must assume, has been overrated, hut I notice f that Mr. Richards placed her JO pounds behind II Diadem in his latest Handicap Book. It will have e to be fourteen pounds or more after todays run- Coutiiiued on second page. NEWMARKET SALES AND JULY RACING. Continued from first page. ning. Diadem is a fine filly indeed, indvidually. and if the Marehetta filly is really her superior she will certainly win next time she runs, unless, indeed, a bad start once- more puts her out of court. There have been good handicap performances this week, one of which is to the credit of old Lance Chest, and another to that of Ilasta today, l.oth of these; animals are by Spearmint, and as to Ilasta. it may be said without fear of contradiction, that there is no more beautiful mare in England. She is as near perfection as ciin be found, and she both stays well ami is dead game Nothing could have been finer than the way in which she battled out the finish for the Milton Welter under 181 pounds, and Lord Stanley might well look overjoyed at the parental success. l:y the way. he is going quite sound again to all appearance, though it may be some time before he is fit to return to the front. Ilasta started at the remunerative price of 7 to 1. and some lucky people got on at eighths, though she really ought to have been favorite on the score of class nloiie. Aerschot carried his ton-pound penalty well indeed, and was loudly shouted as the winner a long way from home. Some of the shunters afterwards blamed Colling for letting him go to the front too soon, but they probably did not realize that the horse was drawn with the inside berth, and his Jockey was finite right to retain it. Moreover, he had tin; horse in restraint while lie was in front, and never drove him until an extra effort was absolutely necessary. I feel sure that the stable did not expect more of Aerschot than that he might get. a place, and even that contingency was regarded as a dubious one. He was simply outclassed by Ilasta, as were all the rest of the starters." , i i I
