New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-12

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There are several weighty reasons why the past
achievements and future prospects of our horses
in England should be source Of great pride and
intense qualification to those who take interest IN
that noble ANIMAL the thoroughbred horse Of
America. The difficulties to be encountered in the
enterprise Of taking over American race-horses
70 contend with those OF the United Kingdom upon
their own ground, were great and they were mn
merous In the first place. the number Of thorough
bred horses produced in England, Ireland and
Scotland exceeds those raised in this country so
largely that the chances would have been greatly
against Us, even if all the running horses of the
States had been carried over the Atlantic. It is
agreed that the ratio of rst.class animals to- the
number bred Il very small anywhere, and the
larger the aggregate number bred the greater the
chance of having them. But il was manifestly i'm
possible to take over more than some few Ameri-
can racers ; and hence arose another great diff
eulty-the selection. To tell what horse has
been is easy enough; to tell what he i going to
ity. The greatest experience, the best Judgment
and the most careful consideration can only hope
TO approximate the probable truth and they are
very often entirely mistaken in the conclusion
they arrive at. Hence the discrepancy Of opinion
as to whether the best American horses have yet
been taken to England, a subject we do not pro-
pose TO Investigate at present. RI szs
But the few horses having been chosen to repre-
sent oar thorough bred racers against the multi
tudes of England and Ireland, they have to en-
counter the risk and detriment of a sea-voyage.
we think these are much greater than is commonly
legs, cribbed, cabned and eontined,'' In a con-
strained and exhausting position. His food is
changed; his water is bad in quality, and often
limited in quantity; the air he breathes is vitated.
" The glory OF his nostrils is terrible y longer!
Neptune may have created the horse, as the an
clients believed; but he fares badly upon his ele-
ment. The voyage, however, over, and the horse
arrived in England, he has to undergo the process
Of acclimatization, which is another drawback to
success Now, all these were elements in the
question of equality or superiority of American
English horses, when Mr.. TenBFoeck endeayored
to reach its practical solution.
In view Of the risks and difficulties the American
horses had to encounter, their success has been
extraordinary. True it is that the noble Lecomte
and the gallant Prior died, and that Charleston
broke down; and that it devolved upon the good
old mare Prioress, upon Stark and young Umpire,
to uphold the American cause. GloriousIy they
have done it, and in all probability future and
greater trinmphs await them. From his public
running as a two-year old, Umpire strobe from his
place as an outsider at 100 to l. and took the posi-
ton of first favorite for the Derby He was SO adj
vanced by English bettors. who were of course
ments by shrewdness and experience. It is alleged
by some mournful blockheads here, that what was
said about him BY this paper made him'frst favor
lite. Hockey Walker Why does not what they
say against him drive him out of the betting?
Simply because English turfmen judge from his
public performances upon English ground.
Some time since the colt had slight cold, which
drove him back few points in the betting. He is
now FecofeTeu anu nus D6e1 put 70 Wprh. Mf.
TenBroeck, and Lord and Lady Stamford, BY in
yitation, witnessed one Of his galleps The Saria-
tons in the betting are small BuGcaneer and
Mainstone have slight lead of Umpire at present,
and he leads Thormanby. Yet as little as So to
has been taken that Buccaneer wins the Two
Thousand, and .Thormanby the Derby, coupled.
With these four nearly on par, and two or three
more known good ones close behind them, the field
is very strong. If Umpire should win, under these
circumstances, and we indulge confident hopes
that he will we have no hesitation in saying that it
will be triumph for America, before the splendors
of which all those we have hitherto achieved in
sporting matters, in England must pale their in
etfeetual fires" For the Chester Cup Satellite is
again in SOME favor. as viii be seen by reference
to the latest betting. 4-.sl.sTs