The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-28
HOass NOTES.

Inc following large amounts have eeen ~asc-Su
on the coming fixed events:-
IN the Withers Stakes, $40. 900 to 81 200 against
Vaultress taken SO, 900 to $1,000 against King
Pin, taken; $4,000 TO 81, 42S against Beatrice.
taken; $4,000 to Sizes against Astral taken !;
$4,000 to sl,428 against Grinstead, taken.
In the Belmont Stakes $4,000 to 81, 900 against
King Pin, taken; $40 to ST. 300 against the Aste
rod colt, out OF Sue Washington taken So 900 TO
$1,000 against Saxon, taken; $4,000 to $500
against Brother to London, taken: $4,000 to $555
against steel Eyes, taken; 5000 to $3.50 against
Rutherford, taken.
In the Kentucky Stakes, for two-year.olds, at
Saratoga, $4,000 to $1,000 against King Bolt,
taken.
In the Saratoga Stakes, for two.year-olds $4,000
to $1,000 against New York, taken.
In the rravers Stakes, TO 1, taken, on the Sue
Washington colt.
K J. Anderson sold his fast trotting mare Lady
Knox to Philadelphia gentleman, o lew days
since, for $4,000.
Messrs. hetdeld & Jackson, of Railway, N. j.
sold sulKy to the owner of the trotting gelding
Hopeful, with the under standing that should the
horse trot In 2:20 before the end of the next
trottlng season 1t is not to be paid for IT, The
owners OF Hopeful, 1t Is said also offered bet
$1,000 against $4,000 that the horse viii trot in
@'S" "SAo0 '"O Ohu VI ScdSOu. Ills IL trOI-
ter, IT will be remembered, that was pulled at Pros
pect Park Fair Grounds last summer, and whose
owner and driver were ruled OF every National
Association track in the country their bad be-
hayior. The horse was also ruled OFF at the time;
put ny the admission OF lawyers into the Board OF
Appeais wrong was made right, and the horse re-
We were in error in stating that the race horse
Shyi0cK belonged TO the stable OF p. Lorard. He
Is the property of MI. J. G. X. Lawrence and
George LOllilard and will hereafter be run under
the hfm name OF Lawrence G. Lorillard.
Racing CaIendar:-"By direction OF Her Maiestys
Master OF the Horse the three Queens Plates at
Newmarket, now run for separately will this year
DC ainag lmated In one plate oil 800 guineaS, and
will be run Tor in the second October meeting the
last Two miles OF the Cesarewitch Course, at the
usual queens Plate weights.
we give below highly interesting letter from
Admiral Rous to the London Times on turf
prospeCts IN England IN which the Admiral
old racing and scouts the idea OF the deterioration
OF the thoroughbred horse. He asserts that
there are now IN England 1000 more horses rum
nmg long distances and carrying heavy weights
than there were twenty years ago, and that the
present system of early training is the only way OF
getting rid OF worthless weeds and maturing strong
and enduring English race horses.
The Thorough inbred norso-rhe Anglo
Arab Racer-Admiral Rous ON Turf
Prospects.
[From the London Times, Feb o.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES
SIR-phe racing season OF 1878 expired without
any symptoms of decay This does not blind me
to the fact that there is black cloud on the hori
zon threatening destruction to the turf It Is
some advantage
To hear tho thunder ere the tempests roar
The bilow ere it breaks upon tle shore.
Equine historians, from the earliest records have
written absurd nonsense. In 1866 w. Osman
states :-'It Is q cruel thing to say but very true
one, that among the present breed OF horses IN
this nation man or any tolerable judgment can
hardly find one IN fifty for his purpose, either de-
signed to draw or to ride" In the Gentler,aan's
Magazi,e, 100 years ago, .Senex' complains of the
deterioration Of our horses by the introduction OF
Eastern blood, which has had the same effect on
our breed as the vices of France and Italy
on our degenerate nobility. We have
now modern wr tiers quite equal to their
predecessors, One complains that in breeding
strength and endurance are not thought OF; speed
for short races is all in all; and this quality
Is damaged in the end by the strain prematureIy
put upon the horses powers. Another writer says
1t Is high time that Parliament in erlered to check
the frightfu abuses which pervade the entire turf
system; and third, "The Jockey Club were en-
boldened to ny In the face of French experience,
aud to devise that no limit should put upon the
time when twO-year-olds should be stripped in
public''-he knowing that the 22d of Marcn was
fixed as the commencement OF the racing season.
TO which reply that strength ana endurance are
the sumDuna b0num of all breeders, and that
we have 1900 more horses running long dis.
tances and carrying heavy weights than we
had twenty years ago; that breeders are not
such fools as TO Carry on their trade at q
loss; that in France and Germany the
cleverest aud the most successful sportsmen
run twoyear-o lds tor our earliest spring races
without damage to their future prospects. File DE
pAir won the WoOdcOte, the following year the
Great Three Year Old Stakes, including the Oaks,
and finished by the Alexandra Plate. these gen.
tlemen had any pretensiOns to racing lore they
would comprehend that the 1st OF August is the
worst day in the season to commence twoyear old
racing especially Tor one mile, because 1t neces-
states 'ast gaii0ping on the hard ground in June
and July. and recommend my French and Ger
man trends to commence on the LIST OF April. Our
twO-y edr-ods are not severely treated because
our courses are restricted to Jour aud five ur-
Engs-rarely to six iurlOngs-belore July, and the
JocAey Club made most ABSURD alteration IN the
fifteenth rule-"that no two-year-0ds should
run aoove six longs for any plate or
sweepstakes.' This Is specimen OF legislation
apparently to encourage speedy jades. There
can be no objection TO running mile in Septem-
Der. Tw0-year- I'D racing commenced at Ne WIN r.
ket in $780, In 1897 u weight OF age race three
miles, was esta olished two-vear-0lds carry ing y
race the autumn. According 10 our present
system first class two-yearold ire
Sasnt lne osTes n ns stone SIX pounds
this weight running at the top OF his speed six
turOngs. 1t Is likely to strain nus slnews more
than running three miles win q leather; 1t IS the
weight which Is destI uctlve. A Oal may travel
sevon cen miles, yearlng thirty-fve, a two
yea -old sixty per diem, II they nave no weight to
carry. When man rides across the Pdmpas with
led morse ne can appreciate the eject Of weight.
A noble cOlleague--a most Successful breeder and
most formidable winner-has remarked that the
very basis OF the superiority value and
excellence OF our race horse all over
the world actually rests on the test
to the wedding out OF the weak ones and leaves
the reproduction and transmission OF sound,
healthy progeny to those only winch have been
aDle TO undergO tue ordeal OF training. thus by
early training you emabcipate a large percentage
for domestic service. hls Is the secret OF our
success. Early education, 80 beneficial to the
human and brute creation, Is a necessity to q
person with q large shed to try his yearlings,
with view to engage them, un,ess he possesses
superabundance o. money or paucity OF BRAINS.
TIE late Lord q. BenlIneK tried us YeariihrS over