St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-30
sTAYERs AND NoN-sTA.YERs.
The Majority OF Owners Run
Their Horses for Pleasure.

The Majority OF Owners Run
Their Horses for Pleasure.
The English Jockey club has ordered
that there shall be in each days pro-
gramme two races Of a mile. and up
wards, Zone race being neither a hand
leap, a race in which there are any sell
ing conditions. nor confined to two-year-
oIds.n The proposed alterations were
not carried without discussion. Sir
John Ashley and Lord Suffolk expressed
the'opinion that the breed of horses
was not improved by long races. Lon
don Field wants to know if there are
score Of men in England who ''spend
money on keeping race horses for the
reason that it improves the breed" 1t
thinks that the majority of owners run
their horses solely for the pleasure
they derive from seeing them race
And it argues the question in this con-
| sentative fashion: 1t has long been the
fashion TO assert that the horses OF the
! present day cannot stay Like those of an
earlier generation; but while not pre-
tending to contradict the statement, it
may be pointed out that no conclusive
proof OF it has been forthcoming. That
they are not required TO stay TO the same
extent is true enough, because of the
prevalence of short races, and it is also
true in degree, as the Duke of Beau
fort remarked, that horse cannot be
made into a slayer by training. Not
altogether, perhaps: but just as five
furlOng races require one sort ofprepa-
ration, so races over mile and upward
require another. Ii we cannot abso-
lutely make horse go faster than nat
ure intended, by training him with
view to short races, we can at any rate
bring out to the fullest extent such
powers as he possesses. The same argu-
ment applies to long distance races.
If training cannot convert non-stayer
into slayer, it can at least enable
horse to run up to his best powers,
whatever they may be; and possibly
not even trainers themselves know in
how many cases a supposed want of
stamina is due to a lack of condition;
or how often horse wears down others
! by reason of superior condition. Were
any one, who took it into his head to
| abiure all races under mile, to buy the
! best reputed stayerS he could find, and
| to have them trained for long races, we
might then find out what a continuous
| preparation for one object could effect.
| The charge that our horses cannot stay
! may be true for all we can tell, but it
| has never been proved to be true; and
! no one has ever stated clearly what he
| means by staying, nor has any one at
1 tempted to show how far speed and
stamina are connected. Few will quar-
rel possibly, with the statement
that the horse which can for
the greatest distance gallop at his
| best pace, or something approaching
thereto, is better slayer than one who
at equal pressure can gallop a less dis
| lance. Yet the slayer may be slow
! horse when tried against the clock,
! whereas the other may be fast one; he
may in fact be caEtering when his op-
poncnt is galloping, and may thus be
/ enabled to defeat horse who is really
| far better slayer than himself. If
training cannot make q non-stayer into
| a slayer, it can, at any rate, bring about
! the result that horse can run two or
] more miles in quick time. When horses
| after leaving the fiat are put TO steeple-
| chase work, they carry heavy weights
over three miles, or more, of country;
| but then they have no preparation for
short cuts. Without attempting to dog
| Matte on the subject not see
| that any proof ia ced in
| favor OF the statene any
perceptible falling Of
! the British thorol is
! trained TO enabled oVer
! long distance OF
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