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LOOKING AT US FROM OVER THE WATER Another Invasion by American Owners Expected After the Great War Is Over. Latcst exchanges from the states show. that British nfred horses by their success have" caused American breeders to "think furiously," what with the brilliant victories of the tlirce-ryear-olds Omar Khayyam and Sunbonnet and of the two-year-old Sun Briar. Then in addition there is the French-bred Hourless to be reckoned with like the others, a horse of the highest-class and altogether the outlook as regards English horses for America is distinctly promising. At tlie same time it is true enough that the United States are partly responsible for many good winners on this side of the Atlantic, inclusive of W. K. Vanderbilts filly Brumelli winner this year of the "French" Test Derby, and for the runner-up for that race, Sandy Hook, which won several long distance events at Chantilly and elsewhere. Brumelli was foaled by Brume, a daughter of Duella, a mare by Bramble sire of lien Brush and other well-known animals. Bramble was bred in the states by Bonnie Scotland, which was by Iago, dam the famous No. 10 family mare Queen Mary, by Gladiator. Brumellis sire is Maintenon, which himself is by Le Sagit-taire one of the successful sons of Le Sancy, whose other son, Le Samaritain, begot Roi Herode, tlie sire of that great two-year-old The Tetrarch, whose first crop of foals were yearlings this year. Five of The Tetrarchs yearlings were sold last September at Newmarket for an average sum of 1,7S0 guineas, tlie highest priced one being the brown or gray colt by The Tetrarch Whinstone, by Desmond, which was bought by Sir O. Nugent for 2,800 guineas, a big price for an untried sire. This youngster, which was described as a brown or gray, is really a gray with a star of white and a white near fore pastern. BIG WINNERS FROM THE STATES. Although breeders in the United States have had to rely upon constant infusion of British blood in order to keep their thoroughbred stock up to high-water mark, they have sent out many good winners to England in the past and San Gennaro, winner of the Austrian Derby, is a grandson of the American mare Meta II., a daughter of the American sire Sensation, whose children won so many races over here In the days of the Lorillard-Lord W. Beresford confederacy. Meta II. herself won a number of races with C. Wood, Sloan and J. H. Martin in turn in the saddle and on the female side she came of English blood, her dam Magnetic being by The 111 Used, by Breadalbane Ellermire, by Chanticleer. Long before this, of course, Messrs. P. Lorillard and J. R. Keene had sent great winners to this country from tlie states respectively in Iroquois winner of the Derby and St. Leger and Foxhall winner of the Grand Prize of Paris ami the big double of the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. More recently Cap and Bells II. heroine of the Oaks and Durbar II. winner of the Derby had American blood in their veins and now that so much of our best blood has gone to the United States during the last three years, it is quite on the cards that when, the war is over we may have another highly successful American invasion. "Vigilant" in London Sportsman. A
