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I ■ | I ! NEW YORK BREEDING S1UDS + . Empire State Now Boasts ol Four Large Establishments. Great Progress Made in Development of Horse Right at the Threshold of Metropolis. RY C. J. FITZ GERALD. NEW YORK. N. V.. June 2 L— When Sunference, by Sun Briar, out of Conference, by Rock Sand, bred at the Binghamton Stud of Willis Sharpe Kilmer, won the Hudson Stakes at Aqueduct recently it was prophe-. sied that New York would in the near future turnish winners of the great races of the American turf. The fact that Ruthless, winner of the firs Belmont Stakes in 1867. and her sire, American Kclipse, were both bred within twenty-| five miles of New York city hail and that Orange County, only fifty miles away, wa.- the cradle of the American trotter, is a guarantee that conditions in the Empire State are favorable to the development of the highest iight horse types, the chief of which are the thoroughbred and standard-bred. At present this state boasts of four large breedi-ig establishments, representing an investment of more than ,500,000, figuring values of lands comprised in the various studs SS well as the stallions and mares. Two of these — the Eastview Stud of James Butler and the Rinnymede Stud of Gifford A. Cochran at Mt. Kisco — are at the very threshold of the metropolis. The Hurricana Stud of John Sanford is at Amsterdam, while the Kilmer place is within the confines of Binghamton. In the Genesee Valley aro minor establishments as well as the com-I Lined breeding station Of the Breeding Ba-. reau of the Jockey Club and the Federal Remount Service. Farmers In every county i hi the state have thoroughbred dams a!s . ! and the ambition of all is to win the Belmont and other great fixtures of the turf. Trotters capable of holding their own on the Grand Circuit are coming from the Dic.k-erman, Delafield and other studs in Westchester and Orange Counties, keeping alive the blood and traditions associated with Rysdyks Hambletonian. I1KLMON 1 G SEAT ATTR U HON. -"o racing event in the United States has aroused more general interest In the turf and the thoroughbred breeding industry than the $.".0,000 Belmont Slakes, recently won by Richard T. Wilsons Pillory. Oilier races have equaled the Belmont in point of value. but in the matter of tradition and general benefit to the thoroughbred the fine old stake race founded by the American Jockey Club In 1867 and kept alive by the Westchester Racing Association is unapproaehed. The character and standing of those who sponsored it gave the Belme.nt, which was named after Hon. August Belmont, the first president of the American Jockey Club, an exalted position among the turf fixtures of I the period. Its conditions were equitable and it extended an Invitation to sportsmen in every part of the United States and Canada to send their three-year-olds to take part in this conclusive test. The race was framed at a period when the thoroughbred needed friends. The South was impoverished at the close of the war and I breeders of that region, where most of the best blood was held, were desperate. The American Jockey Club gave their thoroughbreds a definite and permanent value when it established a series of races, the continuity of which has never been broken. The Belmont was the chief of these fixtures and its importance to the breeding industry has long been understood. With the passage of the years its value lias been increased. The Westchester management, in the belief that the United States was entitled to a great race for three-year-olds comparable with the Kpsom Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris, increased the value of the Belmont of 1922 to 0,000. Their superb and commodious course at Belmont Park was a fitting testing ground for such a race. ATTENDANCE OF 30,000 PERSONS. The presence of 30,000 persons at the recent running of the Belmont and the attention paid to it by the press of the country shows how accurately the trend of publk: opinion was gauged. The influence of such a great turf feature, which has an economic angle which cannot be ignored, is well ffltt*- Continucd on twelfth page. K - * Jjj New is J" ~r are fn In J» sp wl yrj on Tl | I Wl i I pi ; | gf, I ?r are | ci, I i ar and I ! ev I | m On O the th cc ■ The T! S f,| by h, sl tv 0- T .. tf to W p] 0 f. is _ tf and v V n K c l] I NEW YORK BREEDING STUDS Continued from first page. trated by the following editorial from the York Tribune cf lone S, under the caption "The Thoroughbreds Return" : "The horse, after a period of obscuration, coming back. The proud beauties which delight to spurn the earth with fl lying hoofs no longer doomed to fret Between wooden walls or to spend years of ignoble ease the pasture. The thoroughbred whoso spirit and muscles quiver for action and whose nostrils dilate with joy when he smells the prospect of combat with his peers once more fulfills his destiny. "Many signs attest equine emancipation. Two years ago Man o" War was a hero whoso achievements were followed and ap- plauded by millions. This year Morvich is similarly a national character. Paddocks full of dancing wonders who await their Chance. Conversation turns to talk of blood blue grass. The attendance at racing events increases and promises socn to make new high records. "Belmont Park this week is ■ news center. oven as Churchill Downs was the other day. Saturday the Relmont Stakes, valued at 0,000. and modeled in its conditions after Epsom Derby, which brings king and commoner into wholesome democratic CSSaV popular outpouring promises u be beyond precedent Under an open sky tunga filled with City dust are to i--- made clean ocean breezes and the pulse of life made strorger by copious drafts of honest enthusiasm. The horse i:; indeed coining hack •The killjoys, that dull and intolerant company which, afraid of life, would mak? o-.itence drab, are lighting a losing battle. They must again accustom themselves Is F.""i;g :;mih;; and hearing cheers. The English Puritans, we have Been told, objected bear-baiting not so much out f sympathy with the bear as becaua i they disliked the pleasure of the spectator. Bui Puritanism, out of touch with mar, as led created him. faded, even as a sn.iliar deadness of soul fading here. So dont he ashamed lO mount your fiiwer and to populate your tonneau en Saturday. "Those who have fought the battle to save the thoroughbred have done public service. They have preserved and further dc-l VCloped the speed, the courage, tile BOUDd-, ness and the stamina which make a horse a good horse. The oldest labor-saving invention of mankind, known SO long as to he-come ! e i as a personality, is not to go to the sera;, heap."
