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AN AMERICAN RACING IN CEYLON An Odd Cosmopolitan Combination About His Horso General Foch In a personal letter from S II Barlow an Amer ¬ ican sportsman who has traveled much in the world and is in business in Ceylon Asia writes under date of February 21 of a curious cosmopolitan inci ¬ dent about one of his horses racing in that British Asiatic colony The letter is well worth printing Here it is isA A friend in the States recently sent me a few copies of Daily Rating Form the first 1 had seen for nearly twenty years yearsYour Your system of charting a race is to my mind the very last word in reproduction Still our famous Rapier of the Sporting and Dramatic of London writes that he thinks it is too hard on the printer and generally too much trouble any wav Did you eveiV eveiVThis This same delightful old critic also objects to numbered saddle cloths as they tend to con fuse one Can you beat hat England is the lnad quarters of the turf and always will be no doubt but it is the only place I have ever gone racing where I found difficulty in a large field of pick ¬ ing out the horses in the paddock A color blind chap is surely out of the running runningXow Xow what I started to write you about is an odd combination which recently occurred with re ¬ gard to one of my horses I think that it was a novelty in racing About eighteen months a o 1 bought an old plater called Xewlone by Xew haven Lena a good old sort but touched in the wind and with a bad case of slows after reaching the halfmile post However this is merely a de ¬ tail As a compliment to the great French gen ¬ eral I renamed him General Foch As my racing partner Mr A Fellows Gordon had gone to the war after selling out his interests 1 carried on vyith the old colors tartan red sleeves and cap So wlien the old horse went to the post here is the combination combinationHorse Horse General Foch French FrenchOwner Owner S II Barlow American AmericanTrainer Trainer T White Australian AustralianJockey Jockey Fitzgibbon Irishman IrishmanColors Colors tartan Scotch ScotchCourse Course Ceylon English EnglishThe The old horse eventually won one race and was placed seventeen times in twnty starts I 55 in iii dosing pirt of official program of the Ceylon Turf Club of February 22 22Tin Tin program shows that in the first raccvjthe Auction Stakes one and onequarter miles of lJVKl rupees Mr Barlows Poodle Faker was second in the Xcwberry Stakes five furlongs 1000 rupees General Foch was third and in he February Handi ¬ cap thrce iirlcrs of a mile 270 rupees his Cherry Blossom wVm wVmEvidently Evidently American sportsmen will go aracing even in the English colonial possessions when busi ¬ ness takes tlicm there
