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CHAIRMAN WADSWORTHS WISE VIEWS. Portrays Gain to Farmers Through Operations of tho Breeding Bureau of JJew York. Buffalo, N. Y., July 10. James II. Wadsworth, chairman of the State Racing Commission, was one of the throng which saw Skeptic win the Canadian Derby at Fort Erie on Wednesday last. Mr. Wads-worth, while a breeder of fine sheep and cattle, is like every other resident of the Genesee Valley an ardent admirer of the thoroughbred, not only for his speed and stamina, but for the Influence his blood has on the common horse families of the country. "Racing evidently has a strong place in the affections of the public at large," said the commissioner as he gazed over the crowd which filled the enclosure to repletion, "and it Is well at this time that the people of the United States and Canada should have some recreation, as most of us have somebody fighting at the front. It i3 cheering to learn that the Jockey Clubs meetings to date have been so well patronized, for If racing should pass in the Empire State It could not endure for any extended period elsewhere. The men who are willing to pay for their sport and who count themselves fortunate if they have it at a cost of from 5,000 to 0,000 a year, are chiefly residents of New York. They maintain the big breeding studs and import the best blood in the world. The old saying As New York goes so goes the country holds good in racing as well as in politics. Jockey Clubs Government Praised. "The Jockey Clubs government of the sport," resumed Mr. Wadsworth, "is along safe and sane lines and the Breeding Bureau adjunct of the governing "body of the turf is doing a splendid service for the country. We in the Genesee Valley arc! perhaps in a better position to speak of the benefits the farmers and horse breeders are deriving from the opportunity to niato their common mares witli sires of blood than other regions in the state, but it will not be long until every community will have one or more of these stallions standing for mares at a nominal fee The farmer has learned that there is money in the production of hunters and saddle horses of good class, and the fact that the federal authorities are eager for the half-breed as a cavalry remount solves the problem in so far as the breeding discards are concerned. "I have read with interest the result of the protest made by the English Jockey Club and by such enthusiastic breeders as Lady Londonderry and others interested in tho turf, to the English authorities, and it is significant that they have seen fit to rescind the prohibitory mandate and will allow forty-one days of sport this season, with a new Derby and Oaks to keep the traditions of the English turf intact. "They could scarcely do otherwise, " said Mr. Wadsworth in conclusion, "with the example furnished them by France, Germany and other European powers with their racing tests, which are as much a part of the economic fabric of these countries as the production of wheat, corn or other crops. The English exports are bewailing the loss of so much of their prized thoroughbred blood to this country and the fact that an American has taken the entire Sledmere yearling crop appears to have struck them particularly hard. It is the best blood in the world, but what is their loss is our gain."
