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WOULD LIMIT RACING IN ENGLAND. London. England. April 20. — Since the outbreak of the war. horse racing has been continued in England, the supporters of the turf maintaining that it was necessary for the prcseivation of the all important horse breeding industry, of which they declare racing to be an indisputable branch. Kennedy Jones, director of food economy and founder of the London Daily Mail, who was a well-known race horse owner before the war. today gave the Associated PW ss the following statement in answer to the above claim: "Most people agree that the horse breeding industry, in which we are preeminent, must be maintained. Hut to insure this it is only necesary to allow oats for br i mares, for horses at breeding farms and for yearlings. These classes are not affected by racing, which is only essential in a year such as this for the twenty or thirty first-class three-year-olds, so that their degree of value as prospective stallions and mares may be decided. Suggests Only "Classic Races" Be Run. "This would be achieved if the live classic races only or substitutes for the five classic races — were run at Newmarket. Thus the 4. MM horses now in training would lie cut down at once to about thirty of forty horses an. the saving in oats would be. if not large. ::i all events of real value in the present circumstances. Brood mares, stallions and yearlings and the thirty or forty horses, which might lie entered for these five races, ought to be strictly rationed, ai.d the other horses should either be turned out to grass or killed. "In view of the fact that our stock of oats at the present rate of consumption may be completely exhausted by the middle of June, it would appear to nie, even in the interest of horse breeding, that the -ourse I suggest is urgently advisable. "May I add that I have not raced a horse this year, and that 1 do not intend to do so."
