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. ! , 1 : 1 J • ; 1 ; • f 3 • IRISH HORSES SWEEP TURF • Win Important Stakes Over All Courses in England. / • Brown Jack and Sandwich Latest Products of Erin to Occupy Spotlight in Great Britain. I Whether it be over the treacherous jump* ing course at Aintree, the Rowley mile course at Newmarket or around the "soup plate" track of Chester, Irish-bred horses thus far this season are making a sweep of most of the important stake races on the British turf. Their successes are so frequent that it has become a monotonous story. Th4 latest triumphs of Irish thoroughbreds were this week at historic Chester, where the two most important and valuable stakes, the Chester Cup Handicap and Chester Vase were won by Brown Jack and SandwicttV respectively. Sandwich, a three-year-old half brother to the Derby and Two Thousand Guineas henty Manna, which carried the primrose and rosO hooped silks of Lord Rosebery to victory in the mile and a half Chester Vase, beating his compatriot, Pickpocket, son of Gainsborough and Voleuse, sporting the colors of his owner-breeder, the Aga Khan, was bred by J. J. Maher at the Confey Stud, Dublin, and sold as a yearling at Doncaster for 8,000 to his present owner. Sandwich is a bay son of the Derby hero Sansovino, out of the Buckwheat mare Waffles, dam of Manna; Parwiz, winner of Gratwicke Stakes: and City and Suburban Handicap; Bun-worry, winner of four races, and Chapattl, winner of two races, her only other produce. Sandwich raced but once, and that unsuccessfully as a two-year-old, and ran his second race when victorious in the Chested Vase, a performance that entitles him to a place in the field for the Derby next month. He is also engaged in the Doncaster St* Leger next September. BROWN JACK TAKES SPOTLIGHT. Acclamation of Sandwichs success in the Vase had hardly died away when Brown Jack again focused attention on the Irish thoroughbred by his clever victory under the crushing burden of 132 pounds in the two mile and a quarter Chester Cup, in which he gave eight pounds and a beating to General Charles Lambtons high class distance horse, Trimdon. It was a sterling performance by the seven-year-old Brown Jack, a bay unsexed son of Jackdaw, from Ouerquidella, by Kroonstad, from I arganey, by Wildflower, from Sapphire, by Buckingham, from Criosphinx, by Rosicrucean. Brown Jack was bred in Ireland by George S. Webb and sold as a yearling at Goffs Dublin Horse Show bloodstock sales to C. Thompson for 75. He was not raced in his young days and again changed owners, becoming the property of Charlie Rogers, the well-known Irish horse dealer cf Rct-oath, County Meath. Rogers disposed of Brown Jack at the close of his three-year-old season to the late Anglo-Irish trainer, Honorable Aubrey Hastings, who was acting for his patron, Sir Harold Wernher, for ,200. The horse has proved one of the bargains of a lifetime. VICTORIES AND EARNINGS. Including his victory in the Chester Cup, Brown Jack has accounted for eleven flat race stakes and two hurdle races, earning for his owner 6,500. His outstanding triumphs have been in the Alexandra Stakes twice in succession and Ascot Stakes Handicap at Ascot, Goodwood Cup, Doncaster Cup, Hwfa Williams Memorial Handicap, Salisbury Cup and Nottingham Handicap. In nine of his eleven flat race victories Brown Jack was piloted by the veteran Steve Donoghue. It was under the National Hunt and Steeplechase Rules that Brown Jack came first to the races, and in four outings over hurdles as a four-year-old he was twice winner and once second. His outstanding performance over the minor obstacles was at Cheltenham, where he won the two-mile Champion Hurdle Challenge Cup. On the flat, Brown Jacks triumphs have all been in long-distance races, and he has proved that no route is too far and that weight does not bother him by his two-time victory in Englands longest race, the two-; mile, six-furlongs Alexandra Stakes at As-: cot. However, his latest triumph at Chester was undoubtedly one of the most impres-| sive performances of his career, and proves that all courses are alike and that increasing age is not affecting Jackdaws gallant son. Brown Jack loves to hear his feet rattle, and does not run within pounds of his best form when the track is soft or yielding. Since the death of the Honorable Aubrey Hastings, Brown Jack has been in the care of Ivor Anthony, brother of Jack Anthony, at Wroughton.
