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Here and There on the Turf Duettiste Training Encouragingly. Wingfields Experiments in Breeding. Owner Salmon as a Breeder. Reports of how Joseph E. Wideners Duettiste is training at Lewes are of great interest in this country. Escott, than whom there is no better conditioner of steeplechasers in any country, has begun to lengthen out the exercises of the sturdy, big son of Ethelbert and Dulcibella until now it seems assured that he will be brought back to the races well able to race for America in the Liverpool Grand National next March. It was a disappointment last year that he should have gone wrong when he appeared to be such a formidable eligible for the best of all cross-country prizes. He had done all that Escott had asked of him so brilliantly that his chances for the Grand National were considered second to none. In fact, Mr. Widener had engaged passage to be on hand for the running of the race when he received word of his horse having gone wrong. From being one of the outsiders among the cligibles, his preparation had attracted such wide attention that his odds in the future- books had been repeatedly cut until there was a chance that he would have gone to the post one of the choices. Nov it has to be done all over again, but Duettiste has lost none of his friends and, when his name appears among the entries for some of the other steeplechase stake races, the entries for , which are to close this month, it will be evidence that Escott has him back on the j way to racing form. A perfect jumper, his preparation is principally conditioning, and j when he takes his gallops to the satisfaction j of his trainer there remains no doubt of his ability to stand up over any course. George Wingfield, whose Nevada Stock Farm has sent many a good one to the races, is a i close student of breeding, and it is evidenced , by his not becoming wedded to the stock horses on his own farm. He is well equipped with stallions with Atheling n., Honeywood and Star Master. Atheling H., in particular, i has made good adequately, but Polistena, a fast daughter of Polyrnelus, was sent to Sweep, and from that mating General Thatcher was produced. This colt came to hand brilliantly at the close of the Maryland racing season at Bowie and went into winter quarters at Benning one of the brightest of the three-year-old prospects. Mr. Wingfield has made another mating the result of which will be of great interest. This was the sending of Flotation to Sweep. Flotation is a three-year-old daughter of Disguise and Maid of Avon, the latter a daughter of St. Avonicus. Disguise is a son of Domino and Sweep is a son of Ben Brush and Pink Domino, a Domino mare. Thus there will be a double cross of the Himyar blood in the produce and it was the line that made James It. Keenes Castleton Stud such a marvelous success. This employment of outside sires by breeders has frequently brought the best result and it is along such lines that Walter J. Salmon is conducting his breeding operations. Mr. Salmon has not been breeding long enough to have any results at this time, but he has gone into the production of thoroughbreds extensively and can hardly fail to succeed. He has made many important purchases of mares and nearly all of his attention has been devoted to mares, whether of breeding or racing age. The wide range of stallions he has employed is demonstrated in the entries he has made for Futuritys that have already been closed. His contention is there are stock horses enough in service to give any variety of crossing, and his intelligent study of blood lines should not fail to bring excellent results.
