The daily gazette., 1881-06-03
WHAT THE ENGLISH PRESS SAYS

American Turfmen Generally Con.
graduated by the London News
papers.
LONDON, June 1.-The Sportsman
commenting on the result of the race
for the Derby Stakes, says "Iroquois's g
victory was received, as it deserved to
be, with q tremendous outburst of
cheering. Right heartily may the
Americans be congratulated on having
colt capable Of winning the Derby,
and, though the field was csnfessedly
one of the weakest ever known in point
Of quality and below the average of
recent years with regard to quantity, it
will not do to rob Iroquois Of one iota
Of the credit due his victory, which he
secured handsomely. The American
success Is one in Which Englishmen
should feel the utmost satisfaction, as
it will induce the Americans to send a
further contingent of racers to Eng
land. Iroquois's victory was most
popular, and it took the Police long
time to get Iroqnois threaded through
the crowd to weigh in. His jockey,
Archer, was cheered to the echo. So
handsomely did Iroquois reverse his
running in the race for the Two Thou.
sand Guineas Stakes, at Newmarket,
that he m lst have improved greatly
since the early part of May but IL may
safely be said that he is a better slayer
than Peregrlne and is bound to win a
lot of races" F
LONDON, June 1.-The Daily telegram
thus speaks of the American horses this
morning: "DurIng more than century
no previous celebration Of what M.
Taine calls the great Cockney holiday
has seen tour American champions ar
rayed among the starters. Patriotism
demands that the sympathies Of Eng.
lishmen should rest rather with Pere-
grine and st. Louis than with Iroquois
and Don Fuano; but 1t may fairly be
doubted whether 1t would not be to the
advantage, of that large and miscella-
neous army of men who get their living
out of the British turf that an American
horse should win this afternoon. Mr..
Pierre Lorrillard and james r.. Keene
are both OF them conspicuous for wealth
and enterprise, and the triumph of an
animal carrying their colors " ould be the
signal for an Immense transference of
colts and lilies bred in Kentucky, Ten
nessee, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, New York, or Virginia from
the New to the Old World. 1t Is more
over. not little significant of the ins
huence produced by the recent successfuis
performances of transatlantic horses in
English races upon the value of thorough
bred stock in the United States that
a yearling colt has just been knocked
down In the State of Tennessee under
fha n M IN 4 hx,f far . fhs
largest price ever paid in America for
thoroughbred yearling.
.lt Is certain that American colts
will henceforth play a more noticeable
part In the two great 3-year-old races In
England and France. Already Mr.. j..
Il. Keene has found a reward for his
spirited outlay, seeing that the Grand
Prix de Paris seems to be at the mercy
of his colt Foxhall. Nor let 1t be sup
posed that love for thorough bred
horses Is taste but recently acquired
by what Mr.. Gladstone calls sour kin
across the sea-" For at least century
and three-quarters the finest thorough
bred blood of these islands has been
westward across the ATTAIN
tic.
Among the winners of the Derby the
Americans have taken from us Diomed
and Saltran, John Bull and Spread
Eagle, Sir Harry and Archduke, Lap.
dog, Priam, and st. Giles. The list OF
other famous stations of Belgrsvian
which have also gone West Is
as long as the Homerie catalogue of
ships assembled before Troy. In q
word, the United States have spent an
enormous sum in buying the best equine
stock of these islands, and when, as will
sooner OF later inevitably be the case
they meet with European reward, lot
no grudging iealousies be interpossd to
mar England's gracious and cordial re-
,eption of well merited victory"