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NATURE OF WESTWARD HQS TROUBLES Last year Lord Clancly paid $.7.1.7011 at auction for the yearling colt by Swnyford Blue Tit. This was a new record price for a yearling, displacing the previous record price of $.j0.H0 paid for Sceptre at that age. The colt was named Westward Ho and curiosity as to what lie would do in racing this year was rife in English turf circles, so it yns concluded lie would not do. However, when Lord Cbinely gave the greater price of .."ill0 for his yearling half-brother by The Tctrarch this year it was concluded that Westward Ho must have shown high promise in private after all. All of this led the Newmarket ccrrespondelit of Hie Manchester Sporting Chronicle to write quite recently: "For" the information of those interested I can. however, Uutlifully state that Westward Ho. which went lame on one or both of his hecks in the fore part of this year, and had to be thiown up, was for a lengthy period of tlie season placed under Uncharge of a veterinary specialist and treated for thorcughpin and other defects to his Iiocks. He has been rendered perfectly sound without blemishing the parts which caused the trouble, and by the planner in which the colt moves when trotting or cantering not tlie slightest sign of lameness can be detecled, nor is anything wrong witli his action. The son tif Swnyford Blue Tit. which in tlie early part of liis two-year-old days presented an unfinished and backward .-ippearance. Iris since fined down and is now one of the most commanding and as good looking as any of his age and sex in training here or Msewhere. "lie is not, however, so taking as his half-sister Blue Dun in action, while it is a fact that up to the present time neither the owner nor trainer can possibly know anything of a reliable nature of the capabilities for racing of Westward Ho. The olt until the present time has not done anything in tlie way of active galloping, and any report to the contrary is incorrect."
