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HITCHCOCK TO ABANDON FRENCH TURF Marns Abroad to Bo Sold Stallion Sandy Hook May Be Brought Over XKW YORK May 20 Mr Frank II Hitchcock of the Poard of Stewards of the lotkey Club who has been racing and breeding thoroughbreds in Fnince for a number of years ever since ho par ¬ ticipated in the syndicate which gave Major August Pelmont 150000 for Hock Sand and the Hughes antiraoing legislation drove so many selfrespecting sport loving Americans out of the country is to sell bis mares now in France and confine his breed ¬ ing operations 4o tho Tinted States StatesThis This more than probably means that his fine voung sire Sandy Hook by Uock Sand Tangle by Meddler and next dam that good mare Handspun by Hanover which was bred in France and raced with considerable success in that country will l o brought ver and placed in the stud at Hamburg Place if arrangements now in progress with John K Madden are completed completedSandy Sandy Hook is i fine individual a bay with black points and in ich like his sire He should be a valuable addition to the Rock Sand family in America Mr AmericaMr Hitchcock is fond of racing in France Few who stay more than a year in France want to come back said he This is especially true of Die trainers and jockeys and is illustrated in ONeill and McGee The hitler told me he had not been home in six years yearsThe The greater degree of freedom and interest taken in racing and all those who participate in it abroad is responsible in a great measure for their atti attiMr Mr Hitchcock brought a number of photographs of I he best horses in Fnince witJi him and one which had inteiest for those who are keeping in touch with the various candidates for the Grand Prix was that of Odol by Opott Sainte Fiole owned by M Henry Ternyck Odol up to the time of my departure said Mr Hitchcock had scored five straight victories his last two starts at two ami i hive this spring He is deemed a dangerous ean Oidate for first honors in the Grand Prix as lie is a good stayer stayerThe The picture showed a lengthy colt rather high on the log and light in the barrel but a bold rcso rcsof lute head cairied high at the end of a long light f f neck He looks more like a gelding than a roll rollI I tine perhaps to the fact that all French horses carry less flesh than ours This fact was most noticeable in all of the pictures Perhaps the fact that the bulk of French racing is over a lung dis ¬ tance Is responsible for this thisAnother Another picture which Mr Hitchcock showed with satisfaction was that of a halfbred twoyearold by his own sire Karly Song a son of Yankee anil Itossignol by Itossington This colts mother said Mr Hitchcock was a mare of unknown breed ¬ ing which Snyder his former trainer drove to a cart Her son as you will notice has as much Utility as the best of the thoroughbreds and lie was sixteen hands high when I left France He is a jierfect tvpe to improve the general purpose horse family of any country He will be left entire and unless I change iiiy mind will be brought to this country
