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■ I I I H. T. OXNARDS VIEWS ON RACING H. T. Oxnard. well-known Virginia breeder and turfman, has two hobbies — sugar lieets and race Iiorses. "I became interested in race horses." he says, "when, during my numerous visits to Europe, I saw what the governments of France. Germany. Austria-Hungary. Italy and Russia were doing to encourage the raising of thoroughbreds for no other putrose than to insure remounts for their cavalry. Befoe the war I was told by Count Lehndorff, head of the German Remount Service, that without thoroughbreds it would lie impossible to properly mount an army, and I want to say that in Europe, where nothing but thoroughbreds and thoroughbred crosses are used for cavalry horses, the armies are so much better mounted than our own that there is no comparison. Thoroughbreds — racing, betting and the army-— arc iudissolublv linked, for without racing there can lie no thoroughbreds for the army and without lietting there will I* no racing. Racing is essential to determine the fitness of horses from which to breed remounts."
