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SOURCE OF ARMY REMOUNTS Without Racing There Would Be No Cavalry Horses Within- the Next Ten Years. SARATOGA, N. Y., August 23. About 1,500 representative horsemen and persons interested n racing attended the meeting in the paddock .at which officers of the National Remount Association were heard in their plan for co-operation in the work of army horse improvement. Colonels Koch and Scott, the latter ;in active charge of the work at headquarters in- Washington, explained, at length the aims and hopes of the organization and asked for the co-operation of everybody Interested in breeding and racing and also, in the matter of national defense, which they said were linked together. . In the course of Colonel Kochs remarks lie made it plain that the nrmy depended .absolutely upon the race tracks for its supply of thoroughbred sires which would be placed at various breeding centers throughout the United States, and added: "The army stands ready to testify to thLs fact whenever racing is assailed." Colonel Scott, in a brief outline, sketched the plan under whiqh the 254,000 appropriation will be distributed, and made an urgent appeal to the spectators to become members of the Remount Association and afterward to canvass their friends and secure their -.co-operation. He stated that the organization, though in its infancy, was successful beyond the most sanguine expectations of its promoters and that interest In the movement now extended from coast to coast. An impressive statement and One which carried conviction was made by Colonel Koch to the effect that without racing there would be no cavalry remounts in the United States within the next, ten years. There are now some fifty thoroughbred sires at the various breeding centers and remount depots in the United States. Colonel Scott declared that it is imperative that at least one hundred more sires of the proper type should be distributed before next spring. It was hoped that a large number would be secured through the medium of the military races which the various racing associations had planned to give a place upon their programs. The fact that the first one offered .at this point on Friday failed to fill is not conclusive, evidence that horsemen will fail to realize the importance of entering suitalile stallions in such contests at a later date. Under the revised conditions the government will add 50 to the premium offered by the racing associations, which will give the Owner approximately ,750 for liis animal. At the conclusion of the addresses a large number of new members were secured, the first to join being George H. Bull, secretary and treasurer of the Saratoga Association for the Improvernent ut the Breeding of Horses, who becuine a life member. .
