The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-08-04
Our English Cousins.
WHAT AN AMERICAN SPORTING RE-
PORTER THINKS OF THE PEOPLE
CLIMATE AND HORSES.

| "hhk AN hpAENlCAN bPORTikG RE-
PORTER THINKS OF THE PEOPLE
CLIMATE AND HORSES.
Mr.. Joseph Elliott, the veteran
sporting reporter Of the New York
Herald, who has recently been
on visit to England, has been
interviewed by Graphic re-
porter, and expressed, in very piair
plain terus, his opiuion Of tho Eng
iish climate and raoiug stock, as vol
rs of the mass Of spectators of Euglst
racing. We give so much Of tho ia.
terview os bears on these poiuts
swell, Elliott, what did you think
Of England T.
! 81 think it is an internal climate,
Inhabited by raoe of beathen barba.
rians. had letter to Tattersall,
and delivered it just bofore came
away. had been there many days,
looking at the sales but | didn't
want to DO coached, and I delayed
presenting the letter. Said latter.
sail mir. Elliott, how long do you
stay in London = Said l, If NY watch
is correct shall bs out Of this town
in about two hours. sHow do you
like the couutry?' well, l hayeu't
seen anything in it to like. It ap.
pears to me to be only partly OWL.
lied, and how in tho name of God
you are going to civilise such materi
al you have got here passes my com.
prehension ,"
"But at any rate the horses exceed
yours III style, speed and strength Z"
"No, they don't. There are more
weeds running in England than
bad any idea Of. I sew four hundred
rao, horses on Newmarket Heath ::
that is more than We have in ali
America, for we have little above
three hundred. / said to n thew
Dawson, who has the best stable
there: 'You won't pretend to race
some of those sorubs7' 'Oh, well,'
he suid, we'll work 'em all in during
tue soason. There's so much running
in England that every one Of the
weeds can win something"
"How many race horses have thew
in NIL England Z"
"About three thousand. Their
system Of handicapping is vicious.
don't believe their horses get food,
climate or growth equal to ours. They
put their winners into the stud too
ourly, and fail to give them the time
sides way the racing M us Is co ooldaScted HdHS Pm ID;
England is in the highest degree cor.
rupting to man and horse. Every
little public housekeeper has his
book 'Bookmaking' is the vice of
the nobleman and the roust about.
The money gets into the hauds of the
rumseller at last, the people are cheat.
ed, and still they game from St.
Giles to St. James,"
"And you don't think the climate
of England the best for the horse I"
81 think it's about the worst :;
humid, foggy, wheezy, breeding con.
sumption aud affections Of the throat
and nostrils. l was ordered by my
doctor to 60 out of the country
fually.'
"Did you end France any botter Z"
"Altogether better, both in climate
and manners. They have taken to
racing there in recent years, but their
horses are sounder than tho English
and they Garry off their own purses.
l won't to Vincennes, Longohamps,
Grand Pre-, aud Chantilly courses.
Tho horses Of the Duo d'Auulale at
Chantilly were magnificent animals.
| told the editor of London sporting
paper whom l returned that the best
race horse in the world was the
American, and next the French. He
said was the most prejudiced man
he had ever seen. But / told him
then that no English horso would
win anything at, and I marked
the winner-French."
"Why don't our turfnen challenge
on the other side if our horsos are up
to English standards Z"
Stanford is going over this year
with large part of his stable, par
tioularly yearlings. He was preoe-
ded by Ten Broeck and Harlan. Ten
Broeck was frequently winner"
(which ore the favorite sires of
England now T. . .
81 suppose they call old Cathedral,
Macaroui, and Blair. r.Athol the best.
The irst has to be lifted up, he is 80
old and broken. I attribute the do
cline of English stock. as have said,
partly to the malign influence Of
racing, as conducted in England, on
the stud. A Derby winner at two
years old ia magnified into SIRE"
"Whose stable did. you fud the
best in England ~
"Oh, the Newmarket stables. New
market seems TO be tho imme NJ orial
homes of the British horse and Jock
ey. The three brothers Dawson have
each about sixty horses. Mathew
Dawson's stable Is probably the best
10 Euglana; it is lighted with gas
and kept open until 10 O'Clock at
night, when the gas is turned out and
the horses and ,trainers 60 to sleep.
All day the horse is kept amused by
people conversing near him. He ia
Interested, his mind helped, and
his habits CLEANER. We shut the
stable dcors, the horse romans in
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