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SIRES STAR SHOOT AND FAIR PLAY A paragraph crediting Fair llay with leadership as an American sire for MM is being extensively piiulnd. but is not true. The dead Star Shoot is again tin- leader with a total of .*lJ7,"J3y. with Fair llay. 1191,657. The error comes out of superficiality of tabulation. In first moneys won by his progeny Fair llay would be first, but, when the figures of all moneys won are gathered. Star Shoots total passes that of Man o Wars great sire. "The death of Star Shoot in America.* writes Vigilant in the London Sportsman, •recalls memories of the era when Sloan, the brothers ].. and .1. K. iff. 1. Maker, .1. II. Martin. Kigby and a number of other American jockeys came over here and revolutionized, for good and all. the system of race riding. At the time it was pruned that with the saddle placed on a horses withers, or as nearly so as possible, it matters little whether the horse carries a lot of dead weight. When J. Ueiff won the valuable Hurst Iark Foal Plate on Star Shoot the colt hail to carry Kit pounds, or well over forty-two pounds of lead, for at that time his diminutive rider was able to go to scale at a few pounds aver eighty-four poaada. Many doubted the wisdom of putting so NBal] a boy up on the strnpp.ng son of Isinglass- As;rology. but he won easily, giving a lot of weight away to Ark Itoyal and Gmanlt, hi* immediate followers past the winning peat. Star Shoot went wrong in his a lad, ami as a thr year-old he went to tiie tinted States, where he was a gnat, success as a sire. a
