The New York herald., 1879-12-14
WINNINGS ON THE TURF.
EARNINGS MADE BY NOBLE OWNERS OF NOTED
RACE HORSES IN ENGLAND.

From the London Daily Telegraph.l
II is recorded by turf annalist VINO has long
been resolved into dust that the third and fourth
Dukes OF Grafton owners of horses for up
ward of three-quarters OF century. and that bare
list of their celebrated winners would occupy
greater space than it possible for him to spare.
Between them they won the Derby four times the
Oaks seven times. the Two Thousand five times the
One Thousand eight times. the July I've times. and
all the other "good things ut Newmarket
as Frank Buckle phrased it-upon many
occasions. "They are said." ends this thusiastc
chronicler. "to have netted nearly quarter OF q
million in public stakes" adding that the turf is
largely indebted to them for the improvements they
effected the blood of the English racehorse Turn
ing to later page of the same volume We find that
Crucidx certainly did more in less time than any
that yet appeared upon the English turf.
having run twelve times within many months
without having been beaten. and having S.sa
slo2s7 in public stakes. The triumphs of Cruciiix
were all achieved between July O. 1889. and
June 8, Extraordinarily less than twelve
months-and the last racing Duke oi Grafton
died in 1S44 SO that 1t will be seen. in
reverting to these figures. that dealing
with less than forty years ago. How marvellous has
been the growth in the value OF stakes since the days
OF Oxygen of Crucx is apparent from the merest
glance the list OF winning owners during tue rae
Ing which has just closed and ut the respes
tive amounts with which the most successful Of
them are credited. Thus the twelve principal win
ncrs in 1879 have netted among them close upon
EGO 600 in public stakes, and reference to the az
gtegateu winnings of Lord Falmouth during the last
fve years is still more astonishing Thus appears
that between 1875 aud 1879 inclusive Lord Falmouth
has won altogether f126 SU0 that in the same period
Count Lagrange irrespective OF the French turf has
won f76.2l4; that Mr.. Crawfurd and Lord Rose
berry have each OF them won nearly f43.O00, and
Mr. Houldsworth nearly f40.0O0 Taking the last
and lowest of these averages-that of Mr.. Houlds-
two Dukes Of Grafton would. in their seventy live
years upon the turf. have on about f6OU,UO0 Lord
Falmouth is about sixty years DID, and IT, as we
hope, his life be protracted to the same span was
accorded to the third aud fourth Dukes OF Grafton.
it is by means mpossibe-assuming that
anything like his recent average be main.
tanned for another fifteen years-that he
WILL when his turf balance is finally
struck appear as the winner in public stakes of more
than half million of money Reverting for mo-
ment to the past shall find that the first Earl
Grosvenor. the great grandfather Of the present
Duke of Westminster, the turf for more than
forty years. that the of the racehorses owned
by him ill fourteen pages in the thrty-frst volume
winner Of x2Oe.OOo in public stakes. he was out Of
pocket to the extent OF 100000 by his taste for
racing.
These figures. viewed comprehensively. afford
abundant material for reflection; since they indicate
amazing revolution in the conditions OF our favor
ite national sport It is notorious that Lord George
Bentnck, who died in 1848 Of opinion that
horse racing could not be made to pay without bet
ting and the lapse of generation since his death
shows that he little imagined to what dimensions
within his natural lifetime. had he been spared to
complete it, the turf would attain In the first place
more than E25,00O for i've successive years is
pregnant with advantages and benefits to the
general well being of the turf. 1t typifes that
trainers and jockeys are more honest and less ex-
posed to private and surreptitious overtures invt
ing them to fraud since the days when betting was
everything and the value of stakes comparatively
nothing. 1t persuades us to view with entire indif
ference the complaints which often heard that
it is longer possible to win such enormous sums
US stakes by betting were attainable when Derby
books upon q large scale were commenced twelve
aud fourteen and sometimes twenty-four months be-
fnrat he le
dinary success of Lord Falmouth inculcates yet
another and more striking lesson. 1t has been
achieved by owner who has rarely more, and
sometimes less than q dozen horses in training,
all of them bred by himself and also-which is still
swollen by hardly handicap. His two-year.olds
seldom come out in public before the end Of April
or the commencement OF May. ana the discourage
nence from 1t is so valuable that Lord George Ben
tincks theory on the subject is buried as deep as its
authors predictions as to the dangers which would
result from tho abolition of derential duties upon
sugar. may be noticed parenthetically that all the
SS' the last half century were owners | of small
studs. The two Dukes OF Grafton, Lord Eglin-
ton. Admiral Hareourt. Mr.. A. ". Hill; Sir
resembled Lord Falmouth in this respect; while on
the other hand. reversing the old military maxim of
Napoleon that Providence Is the side of big bat
talions," Lord George Bentinck Lord Glasgow aud
Lord Exeter not benefited by having from forty
to sixty horses simultaneously in training. The
only large stud owner in the past history OF the
turf upon whose colors victory has often perched is
Count Lagrange y and IT. may reasonably be doubted @
last five years have balanced his expenses.
In one respect Count Lagrange has IN advantage
ceaselessiy recruit their studs by the public pur-
chase OF costly yearlinRs under the hammer. seeing
country, too where breeding stud is said to cost
less than in England. We believe that Count La
grange never owned an animal sprung from sire for
whose service LOO guineas or more were paid. nor
there, we think, be u doubt that the enormous
fees in fashion among ourselves add undesir-
fo roaftnl loall
yearngs without loss to their breeder state of af
fairs which has caused this last season SO many
heart burnings among men who have sent expensive
youngsters into the auction ring.
A retrospective view of the turf during the last
half century brings u.s. then. to two conclusions In
the first place 1t shows that large studs cat them
selves up; and second. that the breeders of their
own animals have habitually done better than the
purchasers Of yearings under the hammer. In con-
nection with this last point General Peel, when
amined before Lord kosebery's Horse Committee,
said that "a great many more fhoroughbreds
bred now than formerly, and in my opinion, there
great many more bad ones in proportion to the
good ones. for the following reason:-Those who
are breeding for sale generally hire or pur-
chase = stalon-possibly very good one in
himself-with which they mate Their mares. whereas
send his mare. am borne out In this by the tact
that although there now very few private breed
great stakes are by animals bred privately. and
not by those purchased" The present year con-
firms the accuracy Of this remark since the Two and
leger-or what are commonly called "the iye
classic races"-were all of them won by ami
mails privately bred. Among the twelve largest
winners OF this year. Count Lagrange Lord
Falmouth and Prince Soltykon breed their own
horses exclusively. while the Duke of westmin.
ster, Lord Rosebery. Mr.. Stirling Crawturd
and Lord Bradford do in great measure.
The four best animals owned by the four last
named patrons of the turf of their own breed
ing, and we trust that the encouragement given to
the Duke OF Westminster by the origin OF Bend Or
will lead to the revival and the exclusive OF
another such stud Eaton those which birth
to Meliora Vioante, John Bull and Alexander, aud.
IN later generation, to Touchstone. Launccot Sat-
irist, Pantaloon. Ghuznec and Maria Day. Again.
the large number OF brood mares mt Mentmorc and
the Durdans will incline their owner. Lord Rosebery,
more and more toward confining the racehorses
sent by him into training to those OF which he Is
himself the breeder. aud with two such private
brcoting studs to draw upon we entertain no doubt
th,t Robert Peck's stable like that of Matthew Daw
son, at Newmarket, will rarely be without noble
specimen of the British thoroughbred Again and
again have protested against the dangerous prac
zee of giving enormous sums tor yoariings bred
upon spec uation when 1t Is possible for noblcmcn
and gentlemen who have taste for horse racing