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AMERICAN WINNER IN GERMANY. That American-bred horses as a rule take kindly to jumping is well known, and it was only eight years ago that Rubion won the Grand National. He had, however, much English blood in his veins, being by Star Ruby half-brother to Sceptre and Collar, out of a mare whose four great grand-sires were English, viz. The Libel, Camhuscan. Australian, and the The Palmer, while in tail female he traced back to Calliope, the maternal ancestress of Harkawny. Nevertheless he had a number of American strains in his make up, and it would be easy to make out a list of other good junipers that were bred in U. S. A. among them the unlucky Selectman. I see from "Deutscher Sport" that the Great Stransberg Handicap Steeplechase was won the other day on the Berlin circuit by the six-year-old horse Dissension, an American-bred horse, which in his yOung days carried the colors of Lord Deeies for whom he won one little race over a distance of ground at AVindsor as a three-year-old. His sire is by St. Simon, however, and it is indeed difficult nowadays to find an American-bred one that does not conie of English blood close up on one side or the other, if not both. At the close of Dissenions thrce-"year-old days he was bought at the December sales by Baron von AAedel for 300 guineas. He has done well in Germany, and in the steeplechase referred to he started favorite at "evens" in a field of eight, although he was given from nineteen to thirty-four pounds apiece to his opponents. Two of the other races at Berlin-Strausberg had a decided Kingsclere flavor, for Count E. Henckels Mustang, which won the Muoggil Ronnen one mile, is a four-year-old soil of the late Duke of AAestminstors old horse Joyful, and Illner, which won a minor steeplechase, is by Matchbox. Both Dissension and Illner were ridden by a German jockey named Keith. "Aigilant" in London Sportsman of Aug. 24.
