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PROSPERITY FOR BREEDERS Demand for Good Horses Fore ¬ casts Great Future for Turf J 0 Keene Predicts an Unpre ¬ cedented Boom for Racing When the War Is Over By J R Jeffery JefferySaratoga Saratoga X Y August 22 J O Keene who ia among the prominent Kentucky breeders here fore ¬ sees an era of unprecedented prosperity for Ameri ¬ can breeders of the thoroughbred after the war providing the domestic situation remains as satis ¬ factory as it is at present Xotwithstanding the handicap growing out of war conditions the demand for highclass thoroughbreds in the United States was never better than it is at the present time abundant evidence of which is to be found in the sensational prices recently paid for desirable year ¬ lings and the fancy prices at which horses capable of winning races in good company are held when an attempt is made to buy them themThe The yearling market has been further stimulated during the past few days by the decision of the stewards of the Jockey Club to remove the ban for ¬ bidding the racing 01 twoyearolds before April 1 which decision will have a direct bearing upon the value of the cheaper grade of yearlings in that it will reopen the winter racing field for juveniles of this type typeWith With the war at an end it may be expected that the competition for highclass racing stock will be ¬ come keener as a natural consequence of further accessions to the ranks of wealthy owners who now derive great pleasure front the possession of fleet thoroughbreds The advent of peace is expected to give racing a big boom boomBut But it is not altogether on account of the healthy conditions confronting breeders in this country that Mr Keene predicts greater prosperity for the breed ¬ ing industry of America when the war is over He believes there will be a lively demand from foreign countries for Americanbred thoroughbreds especi ¬ ally those bearing in their veins the choice English and French blood wliich has been so plentifully im ¬ ported into this country during the past few years yearsIt It is well known that the war has played havoc witii the breeding stock of all the European nations tiiat have been fighting so strenuously for four years Russia and Roumnnia are reported to have been denuded of practically all the choice thorough ¬ breds they had at the beginning of the war The stocks of Germany AustriaHungary and Italy ar thought to be sadly depleted and even in England and France there has been a marked decrease in breeding breedingHAVE HAVE BEEN BUILDING UP UPWhile While all these countries have been losing ground in thoroughbred production the breeders of the United States have been building up their studs and there is no question but that as a whole the breeding industry of this country is now in far better condition than at any time since the slump of a decade or so ago growing out of the wave of repressionary legislation in various parts of the United States that led to the dispersal of so many breeding studs and the exportation of some of the choicest stock of the country to Europe and South America AmericaMr Mr Keene points out that the war gives American breeders of the thoroughbred horse an opiH rtunity to enter the markets of the world which they never have had before just as opportunities are prvsentin themselves in other lines that have been lacking hitherto He believes that the American thorough ¬ bred will hold its own in competition with thorough ¬ breds bred anywhere else in the world and that afterthewar conditions will give the American stock the long awaited chance to demonstrate its itsAfter After Hilly Kellys sensationally achieved victory in the Grab Bag Handicap Tuesday everybody was willing to admit that lie is the best twoyearold seen hereabouts in many a year It took some of the eastern critics a long time to concidi Billy Kellys superior quality even after his earlier achievements here had convinced most racegoers of his championship calibre If anything was needed to cap the climax of his sensational record since he first flashed upon the eastern horizon on the open ¬ ing day of the Saratoga meeting his feat of yester ¬ day in coming from far back under the crushing impost of 135 pounds to wear the flying pacemakers down and win in a strenuous drive in which he showed unflinching courage furnished it itHilly Hilly Kelly has two more engagements during the Saratoga season He is eligible for the Troy Selling Stakes to be run on Monday liext but of course he will not fill tliis engagement as the conditions of the race provide for the sale of the winner at auc ¬ tion with 4000 specified as the top price at which he could be entered enteredWILL WILL START IN HANDICAP HANDICAPHis His other engagement which he doubtless will fill if all goes well in the meantime is in the Adi ¬ rondack Handicap of 5000 to be run on Wednesday next The distance of this race is threequarters and weights will be announced by Handicappcr W S Vosburgh on Friday next In view of the manner in which he has been sweeping everything before him owners of other prominent candidates for the 30000 Hopeful Stakes to be run on the closing day of the season may well congratulate themselves that this phenomenal gelding is not among the eligibles for that richest of all American juvenile races Had he been eligible for this race it is a sure tiling that Commander J K L Ross would not have been able to buy the wonderful son of Dick Welles for anything like the 27500 for which W F Poison sold him himTombolos Tombolos victory over the speedy Flags Tuesday was no surprise to horsemen from the Pacific coast who were familiar with the promise which this horse showed in his twoyearold trials Early Wright the veteran trainer of George W Wing Jields Nevada Stock Farm stable has always thought well of this imported colt but has had considerable difficulty in bringing him around to his real form principally because the colt was taken sick after his arrival in the east from Nevada last spring and is only now getting over the effects of that piece of misfortune He is of Eng ¬ lish breeding being by Grey Leg Hernina HerninaHarry Harry Morrissey is planning to campaign tt stable of Henry A Porter in Kentucky the couiin fall Upon the closing of the Saratoga season the Porter horses will be shipped to Lexington to await the opening of the meeting at that point oil September 11
