River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-05-01
AMERICAN HORSES IN ENGLAND.
The Tentares OF Messrs. LoriIlard aud
SanTord-The Prospects for the Future.
fNaU Work World Iyth

SdnTord-Thc Prospects for the Future.
New York World, I7thl
The news of Mr. Pierre Lorillard's initial
success with Parole in the Newmarket hsndi.
cap will be warmly received throughout this
country, not only because Of the natural
sympathy with the representative of the
American turf who has sent his stable such
q distance to compete with the English
horses on their own courses, but as well be-
cause ''the little brown gelding" is so well
known to all habitues of the track from
Saratoga to Baltimore, and as popular as the
famous mare Beeswing used to be with the
northern pitmen. Both of the defeated
horses are animals of good quality-Ison-
omy, in particular, is of high class-so that
there is encouragement for hoping
that MIR. Lorillard's plucky venture
may be crowned with financial sue
cess, and that at last some light
may be thrown on the interesting problems
of the relative merits of English and Ameri-
can thoroughbreds and of dirt and turf
tracks. Should Uncas and the Duke of
Magenta be enabled to come mp to the post
in form, the test would be a decided one,
while the 2-year-olds are of such good breed
ing and looks that it would be reasonable to
consideration fairly representative of the
Anerlcan youngsters OF 1913.
1t is almost quarter of century ago
since the first American stable was sent to
England. The story of Mr. Richard Ten
Brock 5 venture, or rather of its beginning,
was told in detail in the World year ago.
The American stable was strong one, what
with Pryor, Prioress, Starke, Satellite
formerly SHERIFF, and Umpire, the strap
ping son of Alice Carneal, who made such
MI g fla y 1lI otalr
just twenty years ago this summer
that the English could hardly be
convinced that the colt was not a
3-year old. 1t is just nineteen years ago to-
day since Savers and Heenan fought at
"heath-girded Marlborough for the champ
ionship, hence the spirit of international
sporting rivalry was at its highest when a
few weeks later Umpire was brought out TO
battle at EPSON for the Derby. His failure
to display anything like his 2-year-old form,
though he was fairly to the front at the
finish, was a sore disappointment to the
American turf-lovers, and from that fatal
dry interest gradually died away in MIR. Ten
Breck's venture. 1t was not-measured by
the amount of money won in stakes or by
the magnitude of the races captured-a
successful campaign, though there were
some sunny days for the stable. Prioress
though wretchedly handled in the race for
the Goodwood cup, placed the Csarewitch of
1857 to her credit, after memorable dead
heat of three with FL Hakun and
Queen Bess, while in 1853 Umpire was so
grandly successful in the 5-year-old
events that he left off the winter favor
ite for the Derby of 1860, and Starke
won the Goodwood stakes, landing the much
desired Goodwood cup two years later. But
luck was against the stable, which had de-
veloped fatal habitude, such as possessed
Lord Rosebery's horses last year, of running
second, and in racing he does not come near
enough "who comes to be denied in the ex-
element of the Presidential campaign of
1860 and the outbreak of the war of seces-
stones especially as this was before the re-
vival of racing at the North-American
sporting men lost track of their compatriot,
and finally he returned to America richer
man than he had left it, but that was through
his marriage while abroad with Miss Ander-
son, Kentucky belle and heiress. Unless
the World is in error Mr.. Ten Brock had
one piece of satisfaction. Mr.. Merry's colt
Thormanby it was that laid Umpire low in
1860: en- ravanche it was by running off a
dead heat in the mud with the American
mare Magglore that Mr.. Merrys Dundee,
pounds and pounds the best colt of the year,
''broke his mighty heart" and laid the foun-
lation of his defeat the spring following at
Epson.
Not until Mr.. NJ. H. Sanford sent over
Preakness, Mate, Brown Prince, Donna,
Start and Bay Final three years age, did an
American again challenge the supremacy of
English thorougbreds on the English turf,
though in 1S73-we think it was-there
were hopes entertained that Mr.. August
Belmont would send over a stable, entries
having been made by him for the great
three-year old events. The venture has not
been a success, judged by the same standard
as that applied to Mr.. Ten Broeck's, but
then the stable was small, and had the worst
of luck with illness. Besides, though
Preakness was grand horse, he was very
old one. Mate was also well stricken in
years. and never showed his Agerican form,
and the others, though of fair quality or
promise, could not be called cracks. Freak
ness tailed to win the Goodwood cup, just
missing second money, but per-
formed SO well that he had a
walkover for its sequel, the Brighton cup
(which Starke also won in his Goodwood
year)--or rather for the forfeits, for the
plate is not given when there is no contest.
Brown Prince, when he ran second for the
1900 guineas, awakened lively hopes that he
would carry off one of the great 3-year-old
races later in the year over course that
better suited his Lexington blood. but
neither at EPSON nor at Doncaster was he
up to his Newmarket form. Start succeeded
in getting second honors in the Csarewitch
last year, but failed signally in the Cam
bridgeshire. Bay Final won the Dulling-
ham handicap at Newmarket two hears in
succession, each time after dead heat, and
some other minor events fell to the "dark
blue,'' bat Mr.. Sanforo's success, it will be
seen, was not per Sc brilliant. New
ertheless, his expedition did good
service in advertising American horses
as the possessors of such constitutions aud
legs as are rarely found in England, and one
result of this-a result that may prove of
the first importance in later days-was the
presence of English buyers at the annual
stock sales i'll Kentucky last summer.
The horses then purchased for the duke
of Hamilton, ETC., hardly merit mention
here, as their running is no more dis
tinctively American enterprise than was the
venture of Mr.. A. B. Stoekwell who dipped
a little into English racing, and was credited
with long being interested with that keen
peculator Viscount Dupplin in the man
agenent of Petrarch. Mr.. Lorillard's may
therefore be considered the third American
invasion of the English tuf-may the third
time prove the charm.