The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-11

j The following is from the London Lice
Stock Journal of May 9th:
There are now several studs of race horses
IN England which have been sent over from
the United States including those belonging
to Nr. Pierre Lorillard and Mr.. j. r. keene.
The former gentleman has been running
horses in this country for more than two
years, and it will be remembered that he was
the owner Of gelding named Parole, who
achieved no little celebrity the season before
last by his series of victories in the handicaps
at Newmarket, Epson and Chester. Parole
was u very good horse and in his first race he
beat the famous cup horse Isonomy very easily,
with only few pounds the best of the weights,
but he gradually lost his form" and was sent
back to the United States last autumn. Mr..
I.orilard did not do much last season, though
he managed to win the Newmarket Handicap
with Wallenseln, but his horses, and those of
his compatriot, Mr. Keene, nave taken a very
prominent part in all the great races which
have already been decided in fact there is
not one of these races IN which they have
failed TO OBTAIN a place, for Mistake, belong.
ing to Mr., Lorillard. was third in the Lincoln.
shire Handicap and the Great Metropolitan
stakes second in the Newmarket Handicap,
and frs. in the International Handicap; while
Mr. Keenes Foxhall, n threc-year.old of great
W
owner, engaged in the Derby, ran second to
the Duke of Westmlnster's Bend or for the
city and suburban Handicap at EPSON.
The horses belonging to these two gentle.
men came very near to still greater triumph
yesterday, for lroquois, the property of Mr.
LorIIlard, and Don Fulano, belonging TO Mr.
keene, ran second and third for the two thou
sand guneas. Ii is true that the path was In
measure cleared for them by the withdrawal
of the two best performers of last season, viz ;,
Lord Falmouth's Bad Gal, and Mr.. Stirling
Crawtord's st. LUIS, one or the other of whom
would probably have been successful If they
had not been the victims Of that pernicious
system OF two-yearold racing which is gradu.
ally destroying the character of the English
thoroughbred.
But even with these two horses eliminated
from the race there still remained dozen
others and the two American colts defeated
all of them, with the exception OF an unknown
animal named Peregrine, who won very easily
This colt, Il son of Pero Gomez and Adelaide,
Was purchased as yearling by the Duke of
Westminster for $50 guineaS and at the weed
out sale Of the Russley stud last November, he
was, as mentioned in the Lire Stuck J0ul2tal
at the time, bought for 700 guncas by another
patron of the stable
This gentleman has got back his money
with interest, Tor yesterdays race Is worth
over $4,000 to the winner, while the value of
Peregrine, who IS engaged in the Derby and
other races, is enhanced ten-fod. The sue
cess of Peregrlne is another argument against
twoyearold racing, as he has never been out
before, and the tact that the two American
colts should have beaten all the English AMI
mails which had anything Of reputation as
two year.olds, is one which cannot fail to ex-
cite hopes OF still greater success when the
news of 1t reaches the United States