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EARLY RACING OF THE TWO-YEAR-OLDS. Some Australian Comment on Our Rule Pcnali::nij Those Raced Prior to April. la America the racing of two -year -olds before April 1 of this year oa tracks under the supervision ..I" the Jockey Crab has been barred, and a similar course has been do iih | upon by Kentucky dubs — Which seemingly ; ant came under Jockey Club rules and in Canada. Despite this, some of the Americaa clubs have held two -year -old races from January 1. as la the past, and it was i ntieipated about liki youngsters would come under the ban. In Australia owners setting the ruling bodies at defiance would in conjunction with their horses, he disqualified but in America they do things differently. Owners uffeadiag against the rate referred to are not punished, and the disqualification f r racing earlier than April 1 only applies to the youngs ten during their twe-year-oM careers. As three year-olds they can race under J.i.-key Club rulee, as if nothing had happened, and next year a deal of Interest will attach t. ti." meeting of horses which Started in January of this s,.;ls,n with those whose earliest appearance aa two-year oid was not until April. It is not improbable that some of the early-beginning youngsters will have a slight pull over the others in one respect. The two -year -old ciiiu-nieneing in January is likely to get a longer rest before it is three yean old than the one which docs not -tart until April, and will in consequence be racing later in its first season. It may be reasonable to assume that the two-year-old. which is raced at the earliest possible opportunity, will deteriorate sooner as a race horse than the one given greater time in which to mature, bat it cannot be said this idea always works out correctly. Australian Horses Which Raced Early. Various prominent Australian race horses started as ■sea as Ike rates permitted as two-year-olds, and notwithstanding that, were racing and winning •ver long distances when they were five years old. Those people who are not opposed to early two-year-old racing aba point out that most of our best three-year-olds of recent years have been horses which showed form in the spring as two year-olds, and contend that early tuition as a galloper is in most cases productive of better results than to wait until a horse is nearly three, and less adaptable. Some of Australias best stayers have been horses which did little racing early in their careers, but the fact also remains that several prominent at the present time were trained some months before they were actually two years old, .and were raced early in the sprang. For instance. Woorak. our greatest sprinter, who is now five years old, won in the spring as a two-year-old. and Carlita. Australias heat mare, and a rattling stayer, was raced as early as possible. It was the same with Setigne. and Watered, Australias best three-year-old, was another early beginner, opening his winning account in the Australian Jockey Clubs Rreeders Plat... Oa the other hand. Pntrobas. which probably now represents top weight-forage farm at middle distances, was not seriously trained as a two-year-old, nor were Kamios or ITvas Isle, others of the liest of our older division over a journey. "It depends upon the horse." is the way a leading Sydney trainer sums it up. That is to say. one youngster will thrive on work that would iuickly break Up another. However, in these days of big two and three -year-old prizes in Australia, most owners would sooner have their yearling purchases tried early than put by until they were three years old. or near it. even if that course might tend to lengthen their days of racing usefulness.— Sydnev Befcrce.
