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ENGLISH RACING REFORMERS BUSY litre is the ilea of English racing of the best ela- and the objection to modernizing the sport. a penned by William Allison in the Ixuidou Sportsman: "In Kngland horses have their tenieranients studied to the extent of varying their training gallops and not asking them to go on the same one too frequently. At Newmarket in particular they lljoy great variety, yet it is no uncommon experience even there to .see a horse unwilling to go up n certain gallop. I shall always remember seeing Misu Dollar resolutely refused to .start up the Long Hill, and she had to be taken home without being forced to do it. but she went to Kcmplou and won the Duke of York Stakes the next week. A mare like this would have been no use at Palermo, Buenos Aires, or any other centralized nice course unless her spirit were broken, and then she would have raced as cab horses might race, and that I pretty much how the horses at Palermo do actually race if racing it can be called." This comment comes out of a broad movement now going on in England against the old fashioned racing ways of the governing Jockey Club and in favor of centralizing track and modernizing betting methods, even to the extent of licensing bookmakers and using the pari-inutuel system. Out of the movement will come some improvements in the way of prise expansion, especially to placed hornet behind winners, lower entrance fees, re-Jmbilitation of race courses and the mehods of their nang ment.
