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BREEDING GOES ON IN ENGLISH STUDS. D.-spite the gradual curtailment of racing in England and its final suspension, the falling . off in breeding race horses has not yet amounted to anything. This is shown quite convincingly by the number of thoroughbred foals reported in 1916 to the custodians of the General Stud Book. The total last year reached 3.412, as against 3,567 in 1915 and 3.3S3 in 1914. By opponents of two-year-old racing the tem-]M rary suspension of the sport may not be regarded as an unmixed evil. It will have at lenst one crop of foals from Che ordeal of meeting the turf test at the usual immature age and perhaps serve to answer, when racyig is resumed, the long disputed question as to whether the starting of two-year-ols ought to be encouraged, discouraged or forbidden. — Ne* ¥or* Ber*hi,
