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WHY ENGLAND IS AGAINST TIME TEST. Betative to the fact that racing men in England attach little baportaace to the time test. The Field has the foBowiag: "It is not only impossible, hut ill. tether futile, to attempt a comparison between the great horse - oi our day and than of : ther, for then is no sort of line to go by. Bad tin- time test is of title value in this country. Oa this head it m.iy be remarked that en ui-.iss tracks the conditions vary from day to day. and are hardly ever exactly alike. The going may be as bard as iron or soft, or it may hit the happy medium. It may also be good going and yet rather soft, and on this point die only thing one knows fir cerlain is that those boron that caa stride out freely on a really hard trick make the fastest titnis. That at Bpaoa in a dry Derby week extremely fast times are freqaeatly made. is tbey are also M the somewhat similar dowa hill tnck at Brighton. Times at Newmarket in the spring and autumn are, on the other hand. generally speaking, much slower than those at Bpeom or Brighton, and we are inclined to think that on the whole the slower times an made on the courses which are flit or nearly so. and the faster ones ,,n undulating tracks bat, of coarse, only in dry weather. Wind and atmospheric conditions ban also to be taken into account, and oa an exposed ptaia like Newmarket Heath the wind is often high, either herjmg the horses along, or. if a bead wiiil. retarding their effort . Put the Pick of value of the tine test ill this country is to a great exteal proved by tiie fact that good tines are freqaeatly made by moderate horses, !,il- horses kiown to be of high class will occasionally make bad times. Any Sow, no thaws which .ire m. my years apart can he of any vatae."
