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Here and There on the Turf Breeding and Racing Interdependence of the Two Growth of the One Growth Growthof of the Other Favorable Sentiment SentimentSpringfield Springfield I As racing is now conducted the turf has grown beyond a mere sport The horses are just as good and probably better than they were in the days of Wagner Grey Eagle Bos ¬ ton and Fashion Few have attained to any ¬ thing approaching the esteem in which these marvelous eld horses were held There was much more of romance and sentiment to the turf in those days but racing has grown far beyond the picture stage There may be something in the charge of commercialism but a certain amount of commercialism is in ¬ evitable when the turf is so dependent upon the production of the thoroughbred horse horseThe The production of the thoroughbred horse is the big thing after all and any breeding establishment that is not a business cannot endure unless it be onaat which horses are bred by sportsmen to race in their own names How long would the turf last if the only horses that were bred were those that came from the studs of sportsmen who did not send their foals to the market There must be the business of breeding horses for the market This market must exist and the barometer of the market and of thoroughbred horse production Is the race course Only a certain amount of commer ¬ cialism makes possible the hanging up of ade ¬ quate purses and stake races and these values fix the value of the horses horsesSport Sport must always be the first consideration as far as the turf is concerned and as long as that is kept foremost there need be no fear of the absolute elimination of the pic ¬ turesque But back of it all there must be the great big business of producing thorough ¬ bred horses horsesTime Time was when the late James B Haggin was the foremost thoroughbred breeder of this country Mr Haggin was a sportsman and raced his own horses but he did more for the American turf by his sales than he did by his racing The late James R Keene was a sportsman who bred and raced his own but the fame of Castleton was more remarkable for its breeding and sales for this worked real benefit to the turf Harry Payne Whitney and August Belmont have done wondrous things in both racing and breeding but it was the sales that counted in the distribution of the blood that made their racing ventures euccessful which advanced the pport Mr Belmont bred Man o War but he raced for Samuel D Riddle It would be pos ¬ sible to go on down the line through the sportsmenbreeders indefinitely Almost with ¬ out exception they have sold and their selling was what the kept the turf expanding and has brought to its present pinnacle of success That was after a fashion the business end of racing for without the money to be won in racing there would have been little breeding Then take the breeders who have made a business of breeding for the market Their part in the success of the turf has been of vast importance John E Madden who has led all the breeders for six successive years has by his selling broadened the usefulness of the thoroughbred immensely Mr Madden each year shows his silks but his horses have al ¬ ways been on the market and his recent sab of The Finn to W R Coe is an evidence of the farreaching influence of his business breed Arthur B Hancock year after year has been sending yearlings to the market from both his EHerdie Stud in Virginia and daiborne Stud in Kentucky but his silks are never shown in races racesMiss Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield has been breed ¬ ing for the market at her Haylands Stud in Kentucky and she does not race any horses Thomas Piatt A E Hundley Hal Price Head ley Emil Herz Phil T Chinn Sanford C Lyne C H Berryman and many other breeders for the market and for that part in the turf are best known These few give an idea of the great business of thoroughbred production It is an honor ¬ able and a thriving business of immense pro ¬ portions It must be a business and it must of necessity be a paying business to continue continueIn In the picturesque days the breeding of the thoroughbred horse in America had not be ¬ come a business Breeders were few and sportsmen for the most part bred their own and there was not the market that has come for the thoroughbred Encouraging news comes from Springfield It is said that there is real sentiment for legis ¬ lation that will revive the great outdoor sport of racing in Illinois on a permanent and sub ¬ stantial basis In addition to the bill intro ¬ duced by senator John Denvir of Chicago there will in all probability bs presented another measure some time this week the sponsors of which will be the newly organized Chicago Washington Park Club the directors of which include some of Chicagos most prominent citizens both commercially and socially
