Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-02
American Race Horses in England.
From the St. James Gazette.l

From the St. James Gazette.l
 At no previous period have we had SC | many race horses of American origin in Eng 1 land as there are at present; and to the studs | of Mir. Lorillard and Mir. Keene, which achieved so many victories last year, will shortly be added, by all accounts, that of
 MT. Philip .Dwyer, who has signifed his in
 tention of at once bringing over several
 horses which have already made their mark in the United States. But even If the new corners should fail to emulate the achieve ments of Iroquois and Foxhall, the forth coming season is not unlikely to witness many anAmerican victory ;u the great races 1; for while the two horses just mentioned are heavily engaged in the prizes open to four year-oIds there is at least one three-year-o old whose prospects of winning the Two Thou sand Guineas and Derby are, judged by his performances last autumn, very promising.
 What may be the quality of the animals which have within the last six weeks taken rank as two-year- -olds it is, of course, impos- sible to guess but there can be no doubt that, whether because of the ''blue grass" of Kentucky or of the discrimination shown in breeding, the American race horses are much improved since specimens of them were first brought over to this country by Mir. Ten Broeck, in the days when so little was thought of foreign-bred stock that any ani- nal bred out of England was allowed seven pounds 1n every race not nanOlcdp-
 The success of the American horses last season was certainly very remarkable for though only twp. stables were represented, the five and-twenty or thirty animals brought over by Mir. Lorillard and Mir. Keene won twenty races of total value of e25, ,031. Mr. Lorilard did best, so far as regards the num- Der and value of the races secured, for he won nine, worth-inclusive of several small sums for second-e18, ,31G. With Iroquois, a son of bennington and Maggie B. B., he won the Newmarket Stakes of e275, the Bur- well Stakes of e1S0, the Derby of G5, 925, the Prince of Wales Stakes of @, 800, and the St. James Palace Stakes of e1 800 at Ascot ; the Doncaster St. Leger of e5, 450, and the New market Derby of ,e675. The only two de- feats which Iroquois sustained were in the Two Thousand Guineas, for which he ran second to Peregrine, and in the champion stakes at Newmarket. when he finished third to Bend Or and Scobell. Mr. Lorillard was also the owner of very promising two-year- old named Gerald, by Saxon-Girl of the Period, who ran very well in the United States in the summer, but who had a tember. Despite that he ran very good race with two of the crack Allies of the season, and soon after that fn- ished second to Lord Roseberys Kermesse In the Middle Park, beating some of the highest priced yearlings of the previous season After this he was allowed to walk over the course for a rich sweepstakes; his winnings, inelu- sive of what he received for running second in the Middle Park plate, amounting to about
 e60O. But, what is of still more importance, he is virtually first favorite for this years Derby, and is so sound and apparently so ca pablo of improvement that he is better enti tied to consideration than most fayorites are. The most disappointing of Mir. Lorillard's horses was the four-year-old Mistake, by Waverley-M Misfortune for he began the season by running second for the Lincoln shire Handicap and the Newmarket Handi- cap, and, though he won the International Handicap of e7OS at Newmarket two days afterward, he afterward took part without success in most of the big handicaps. Passaic, a three-year by Longfellow-Jury, hay ing been weeded out of MT. Lorillard's sta ble, won two races-ef e194 at Sandown Park, and of e155 at Manchester l; Wallen- stein secured the Great Shropshire Handicap of 1912 at Shrewsbury and another animal discarded by him, Dakota, won hurdle race worth about e10O in France.