The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-26

regard to hOrses and on it's capabilities of
supplying any present and future demand
for them" The other contains the obser
vations of the French Jockey Club. or
" Society for Amelioratng the Breeds of
Horses in France" on the report made by
the committee to which the Assembly had
confided a proposition for re-establishing |
in France the Government studs. The
English committee consisted of the Prince
of Wales the Dukes Of Cambridge and |
Richmond, the MarQuisscs of Lansdowne |
and Aylesbrry. the Lord Stuart. and Lord
Malmesbury, Roseherc and others. The
committee organized February 2Sth, 1873, |
by the election of Lord RDsebery as it's
chairman. Ii sat through the session of
Parliament and examined some forty wit
nesses, among whom were included all the
greatest horse breeders and horse owners |
of Great Britain. The testimony taken |
makes substantial Blue Book of some $50
pages, and the report of the committee was
drawn up and presented to the House by
Lord Rosebery at the end of July. 1t is
full of matters of incidental interest in re-
gard to the subjects of which it treats, bat
we refer to it to day mainly to cite its
evidence in regard to the influence of
| individual enterprise and supervision in
| improving and developing the British
horse. On this point Admiral Rous, the
veteran " of the turf, than whom no man
! is better authority in regard to the facts
of the subject, tells US that the "stature of
thoroughbred stock has increased in Eng
land since 100 an inch every 25 years, so
that whereas the average size of horses
then was ID hands 3, it is now Is hands 2,
| and they can carry twice much weight
as they could hundred years ago." Ad-
miral Rous also testified that whereas in
1924, when he began to know the English
truf there were {" 735 brood mares" in
Britain; in 1872 there were "2,952 brood
Mares that is, besides having supplied
France and Germany and the greater part
of Earope and America and the colonies
with thoroughbred stork." The Admiral
attributed this great ADVANCE In the horse
producing power of Great Britain to the free
unfettered action of private enterprise, and
in answer to Il question to that effect from
Lord Rosebery he decisively answered: 81
think that all Government interference in
the breeding is wrong" The evidence OF
the French Society overwhe! n1lngly con-
firms this, and confirming this affords
most stringent argument in favor of ex-
tending the largest possible public support
to such bodies as the American Jockey
Club. AS the French Society shows, when
it was first formed, in November, 1888,
g the superiority of the English horses was
manifest, and the principal cause OF that
superiority was easy to perceive; it con-
sisted especially in the existence of a par
ticular breed of horses, kept pure with the
greatest care, not fer the purpose of di-
rectly supplying the general consumption
|
which the experience of a century had es-
tablished, of producing, by crossing it with
the ordinary horse, the best working horses
in the world" Tkis, in the judgment of
competent French observers forty years
ago, was the outcome of the racing system
of England. In 1884 the French Society
had twelve members. In 1S74it has 800
At first it accepted state aid, and the Gov
eminent OF France then kept Government
studs. The French Society established its
races, at which 1t was possibie-as in no
other way could it be made possibe-for
private owners to test the quality and value
of their horses. In 1865 the development
of the Society was such that it requested
j. the State to Withdraw IT'S subVention. In
1869, the g overnm+,nt stnds having ceased
to exist, the private +nterPrise OF tht
French Society had called into being SOC
brood mares of pkre blood. In 1913 the
, first French acehorses, Nautilus, Fi'z-
Emilius, and Drummer were sent on trial
to England. They were not even placed
at Good wood. F rTteen years later Jou-
vence, Earoncine, and MonsrSue ran 80
we'll that AK the aiG wances made to French
horses were withdrawn. Since that time
French horres have Won the " bite ribbon
r of the English turf, aud tie recent victory
of the English horse Trent, wlie won the
Prix dc Paris this gear, was Eailed hy
Englishmen real triumPh. The
, French horse Gladistor has been sold for
the stud in England at S35. G10 end Bois-
Roussel at SIG, OGG
What has been dope in France during
the last quarter of century by private
. enterprise organized 10 make horse races
the machinery for pe.fecting the race of
horses, has now been undertaken in
! America by tie American Jockey Club.
The results are not to be looked fer to day
or tomorrow. But they are certain, if
public intelligence aPprehends the aim of
the gentlemen who are conducting che ,eu-
terprise and appreciates the spirit IL which
they are pursuing it.
"There is dark side to the coal lues-
tion," says n coRten porary. At first glance
one might say that all the srdes are dark ];
bet then, ia a winters CRATE, it is delight
fax to see all the sides bright.