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RACING CULLS IMPORTANT FACTOR Without Cheaper Grade of Horses It Would Be Difficult to Fill the Daily Programs. Xew York. April 2. — In the glowing accounts that have been given of the large army of turf stars that Will carry the colors of their various stables during the racing of 191S there has been a tendency to overlook the fact that there is another and larger army of thoroughbreds that represent an entirely different division. Tliey are what might be termed the "rags and liones" of the thoroughbred world. They are to be found in all the large stables, at least in the early spring. and their particular function is an important one in making up the daily racing programs at the various tracks. When one watches the hundreds of racers working out each morning over the race courses of the country he cannot but be impressed by the law of averages which prevails in the thoroughbred world. If a census were taken of every horse in training in this country it would be found that the average would tally pretty regularly, and the man with ten horses would have his average number of iioor sjh-c-im -us. just the same as the trainer with fifty horses. While this years band of race horses is probably better, as a whole, than it has lieen for the past decade, there are large numbers of the mtxlerat.- article. This is necessary, for without the cheap horses tiiere would not be sufficient names to fill a respectable daily program. While the larger and more fashionable stables at Belmont Park contain some real good race horses, stalls are lieing occupied by those which Iraiuers would rather see elsewhere than in their string. WIN SHARE OF THE RACES. "But they have to lie fed." said one trainer, "and they will win races, too. but they look small and iiisignificcnt after watching the work of horses like War Cloud. Papp. Old Rosebud. Stromboli. l.ucullite and that kind." The trainers of the big establishments feel that way about it and the little fellows are always glad to have a half dozen of tin-culls. It is the half-milers that will lie a drug on the market during the coming season. Few of tin-horses that have performed in Havana all winter will lie able to earn oats, and a large majority of those from New Orleans and Hot Springs will not earn brackets until the winter comes around again. These are the horses that will feel the pressure mostly, their only relief being in Nevada and the one or two five-day tracks that prevail in Maryland. According to reports quite a number of horse, will remain in Cuba to await the opening there next winter, their owners only bringing those in this direction that are considered worth while. Others now in this country will probably be turned out until next winter.
