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PRAISE FOR A GREAT AMERICAN HORSE. Foxhall Estimated to Have Been Best of Our Horses Raced Abroad. There can. I think, be little doubt that Foxhall wa- a better class horse than Uosebery. He was certainly one of the lx st. if not actually the best, ever sent over here from America, where he was bred by .1. K. Keene from King Alfonso — Jamaica. Although the winner of two out of three races, then was nothing to suggest that he was anything out of the ordinary as a two-year-old. In the following season Itend Or gave him thirty -four pounds and a decisive lieating for the City and Suburban. His next appearance was in the Oraad Prize of Paris, anil after a desperate race Ford-ham ■ejaceaed him home a bead in lront of Tristan and Fr.d Archer. Four days altiwai ds lie was saddled for the Oold Cup at Ascot, but evidently was jaded as a result of his severe race and cross-channel journey, as he played but an insignificant part in the race, which was easily won by Robert the Devil. After a long rest Foxhall came out like a giant refreshed in the autumn, and, giving seven pounds, ran away from bis stable companion Don Fulano. and Islunael in the Griiid Duke Michael Stakes. Wins the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. With 110 pounds en hi- back iie started favorite for the Cesarewitch. and same home twelve length-in front of Chippendale which was trying to give him fourteen poaads, among the unplaced being Petronel. a Two Thousand iuineas winner. which, however, wa- conceding twenty-two pounds, and a subsequent winner of the Liverpool Oram! National in Yoluptuary. In the same week he more than confirmed the French form by giving five pounds and three-quarters of a length beating t. Tristan in the Select Stake-, and then came the crowning pi rformanoe of all, for. carrying 120 pound-, and opposing probably the best field that ever assembled for the race, he won the Cambridgeshire by a head from Lucy Hitters ninety -one pounds, which had previously finished within a couple of length- of Iroquois in the St. LegCT. Gaaged collaterally, Iroquois, therefore, was decidedly the inferior of his fellow countryman. Iris-tan. IMllllag nineteen pound-, was b-aten a bead and a neck from Mr. Keeaaa horse, and, admitted that he was unlucky not to win. it was -till a high -class performance on the part of the American three-year-old, which won the Ascot Cap in the following year, but failed to come again for the Alexandra Plate on the next day. succumbing by six lengths to Fiddler, also of American breeding, by Pteakneaa Masie, and a rare good stayer. — "Vigilaat" in London Sportsman.
