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INFERIORITY OF OUR STEEPLECHASERS In Iti- country our most important -teep.-cii i- I are of less than thiee miles, but in Engliu I raw Ireland raeea arar !ai ttati e are treqraeari : ud tonwatTI throughoit the winter jumping mei-tiugs. Fey.- at ys at any of C.ese meetings pass witheut a BfcNI l" base at three miles, and not hifr" pi"!i.ly at three and a half miles. Since these meeting.* begin each year as soon as the flat racing season ends in Novemlwr and continue throughout the winfr ami early spring it results that the pick of the Hundreds of jumpers in action are of high class in then line and of a number of which we have had no experl-PBce in American racing. Moreover, their best sn in to hold their form better and longer than MI best. — a ♦
