St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-06
HOW TO RIDE a RACE.

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HOW TO RIDE \ RACE.
Points Suggested by One Famil-
lar With Races Both Sides Of the
Water.
''Rapier's Circular Notes" in the Lon
don Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic
News of Dec. II include Il e following
"a few weeks since, writing on tie
American fashion of racing away from
the fall of the flag at full speed, / ex-
pressed an opinion that an English
Jockey who waited with his horse would
lind the leaders come back To him at the
finish. | do not mean any English
Jockey. of course, but a good horsemau.
who would not Lax ont of his ground.
This remains my fixed conviction, but
'AnglO-American,' The writer of the
following letter from Wyoming. diff
fers from this view. Dear
HAPPIER, nt says. your notes about
American racing have special interest
10 all of US cut here, and | only wish
you could pay Us a visit and receive that
ocular demonstration You wish for, and
see your crack English jockey wait and
find his horses come hack 10 him. If
you will take the Spirit of the Times
which You 10 doubt repeive-and look
at the time of each separate quarter in
any of the big races you will End that
the quarters are run at nearly exactly
the same pace. and take it that this is
an indi~putable contradiction to your
statement. Whether it is the training
or the Tracks or what not, it is almost
certain that the races here are run much
faster than in England; it is wonderful
~ ich
ar even mile ana a half race.
If the Cambridgeshire field were to
race from the fall of the flag, how many
would finish fast enc ugh to even appear
to be gallOping? We should ali very
much like to have your ideas on this
subject. l always maintain that horses
in England, when really extended, go
faster than these, and in this way more
horses are beaten off in England than
America. but 1 very much fear that
really the American horses are superior
in staying qualities to our own.
Il do not agree with 'Anglo-Ameri-
cam that the time in which races are
run here and in America affords any
sort OF test as to the relative speed Of
English and American horses, because
here 1t is not the main object of the
riders to make the best tine possible
though, by the way, Anglo Ameri-
ears reference to the Cam
brldgeshire is not well chosen,
for that is one of the races in which
horses do gallOp all the way. Gener-
ally, however. in races over a mile and
more, some horse makes running the
pace on the field. If st. Simon or Or
monde had on any occasion come right
through from the fall of the flag | have
very little doubt that record would
have been eStahlished-though, by the
way, Sir George Chetwynd tells Inc that
III the match between Lowlander and
Galopin both Jumped off, and came
along at such tremendous sleed that,
in the familiar phrase. they almost stood
still before they got home. As regards
the question whether American horses
stay better than ours, 1t is an unfortu-
nate fact that we have very few stayerS
just now in England: but this. be-
lieVe, arises from the circumstance that
StayeTs are so little encouraged, and
consequently few horses are trained to
Stay-not that l mean To infer tia in
training a horse for the Cesarewitch it
is by any means necessary in all cases
to send him frequent gallOpS Of two
miles and quarter. =
81 begged the duke of Beaufort to
give me his views on this disputed
point, as to what would be likely to
happen if the American field raced
away DIT top speed and the English
jockey waited. Ills grace very kindly
writes: Yes, agree with you. think
old Tom Cannon would drop OH them at
the winning post. have an idea that
races are run in better time in America.
and there are very good reasons for il.
They seldom race when ground is deep.
don't think any track as they call it
u hate the verdi, is ever in the state the
Lincoln or Manchester courses some
times are: but put that aside. Horses
can go on longer at speed in clear at
mOSphere than they can in fog. Our
atmosphere is never as clear as it is
in fine weather in America, and
that is why they run in better time
here. | maintain that the time test is
falaciOuS as to the Teiat We merits of.
say. two OF three horses. if you gallon
them each alone; but no doubt, though
timing to the fraction of a second is diff
ficult. they should, if they are thorough
bred, be able to do mile or any other
distance quicker there than in our al
most invariably fOggy atmospheric
''If some good English horses were
sent 10 America, and had the benefit of
the prepared track and the clear at
mosphere; if, moreover, they were sent
Off at score to see what time they could
make, we should be able to form com
parsons. As it is, we can only specu-
late and argue on insufficient premises,
The American horses that have come to
England have run with very varying
fortune. IrOquOis won the Derby and
Lrger-in a shocking bad year. il
Is true; still. he won them, and must
have the credit. FoXhaIl was no doubt
better horse than he, and did great
things. Don Fulano was a good animal.
and would have won many races if his
leg had not given way. Prioress a
years, g st lbs) ran a dead heat for the
Cesarewitch with FL Hakim g years, C
at 9 lbs) and Queen Bess e years, st 10
lbS), so that she was inferior TO the colt
who carried the same weight and was a
year younger. Parole won all sorts of
races, and then went back TO the states
and won few score more. On the
other hand, Eole came to England with
the reputation of being invincible over
distance of ground, but he ran very
badly, and did nothing except try to eat
the other horses at Danebury, The gear
after Foxhall's exploits Mir. Keene had
four three-ytar-Olds carefully selected
from his stud-Biue Grass, Gen. Scott,