, 1891-07-19
INTERNATIONAL RACE.
Proposal for the Greatest Turf
Event in History.
American Horses to Compete
Against the World.
A Hundred Thousand Dollar
Stake and a Cup.

New YORK, July lS.-It is within
the power of one OF the iour great jockey
clubs in the East to arrange a race that
will be memorable in the annals OF the
turf-a race that will be the affair OF the
century. The proposed event. says a
morning paper, would not only be OF
extraordinary interest, but its effect on
the American turf and the American
thoroughbreds would be strikingly bene-
fetal. To the four jockey clubs, then,
this proposition is submitted. Let there
be announced a grand International
sweepstakes, for all ages, the weight and
distance to be agreed upon by a com-
mittee to be selected from the jockey
clubs of the various countries sending
horses, and let the prize be a piece of
plate known as the American cup and
$I0O, 900 added money. With proper
management this race would be contested
by the very pick of the borses now in
training in England, France, Italy, Ger
many. Australia and America. The
Argentine Republic, which has of late Im-
nOrfed n her nf valuable thorouOh-
breds, would probably compete. and
some one OF the other countries in Eu-
rope, Austria possibly, might send forth
some favorite. The value OF the stake
could be greatly increased if it we're
thought desirable by fixing the entrance
fee at 81 900. As there would probably
be twenty or twenty-five entries the purse
would be- the richest over offered
Tho distance of the race would doub,-
less either he a m;Ie an6 n nnarter ar a
mile and n half with Tho chances Of i,s
heing a milo ond n orartar o. n All,
in England as well as in kmar;ca ia 70,
ward shorter races There would nroho hIy
he but little comnla,nt IL the America
scale of weights was adopted aithongb
that Of course would no a minor meter
and could easily be arranged There
would. of course. be no attemnt at
bandicanpipp and all the horses Of the
same age would carry The same WEIGHT
for the basis on bandica nninp i, that
there ia a difference between horses and
in this case they would ali be eonaI So
far az any one could nossiblv know There
ig certainly no method nv which one coni5
deternine the difference hetweon soy
Common. what ia said IN he the host coli
today IN ENGLAND and PoIomac onr most
brilliant nerformer'
The only obiecl;on that copId he sug-
yested wonid he whether EncIisb owners
wonld send their horses here There il
no good reason for believing hat thew
would not II is true that in the nas, we
have had no English horses in his coun-
trv. hut he anse of tbeir absence 10 varv
anparent We have never offered tbpin
anv inducements. There were more and
richer nurses at home FIR Tho EngI;sb
owner, But wherever spccialIv attroctive
stakes are Offered, English horses meyer
fail to be among the contestants, IL is
the same with eastern horses going west.
Why should Mr.. Dryer send bis stable
West to compete tor $500 purses when he
has 81 900 purses at home? If the West
offered rich prizes, eastern horses would
fill every west-going car. The only yery
valuable stake this wear in the West was
the Chicago derby and half a dozen cast
ern colts were sbipped to Chicago,
Englishmen send their horses to France
and to Italy, to Germany and to Austria.
They have sent them to India and to
Australia, Why should thew not send
them to Amerlca2 Away down in the
bottom of his heart the Englishman be
lieves that his horses are immensely SUI
perior to tho American bred horse.
Whenever ouI horses have won in Eng
land the turfmen there have given a
thousand reasons for every defeat hey
suffered. They have never once admitted
that any horse we sent over was really a
superior animal. The reason they won
the derby was because their 3-year-olds