The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-03-14
SOME FOREIGN RACES
Chances The American Strings
Have in E. gland.
RAMAPO Is IN FINE SHAPE
II Is Not Believed There Is Derby
Winner Among Them .Newmarkets
Eight Meetings.

Three of the finest racing stables in
the country have deserted their native
heath to try for fame and fortune
against the equine wonders owned by
lords and princes abroad. The anti
gambling laws in New York state have
done much to bring about this condition
of affairs, and if these three stables
make any kind of a showing on the
English tracks it is fair to presume
that 1897 will see a large addition to
the foreign American racing colony.
The three American stables are owned
by Richard Croker, Pierre Lorillard
and Duke and Wishard. Mr.. Lorillard
hopes to repeat the success of IrOquois,
who captured the derby 20 years ago,
and Mr. Croker also has his eyes on
some of the historic stakes. Duke and
Wishard are not looking for the big
things in the turf line, but will be con-
tent to land a race here and there with
their entries at fat odds. But AS a mat
ter of fact they have a stronger stable
chan either Mr.. Croker or Mr.. Lorllard.
and if their horses take to the changed
climate they are sure TO be heard from.
Newmarket where the Lorillard and
Wishard horses are stabbed, is the
Everything about it bears some rela-
ton to the thoroughbred horse. Every
where one turns, in any part of the
place, and at any hour of the day a
race horse is pretty sure to be in sight.
All the men in the town seem to be jock
eys or ex-jockeys. No one talks about
anything but horse Lexington, KY, is
not to be compared with Newmarket in
J to
IN the world are located there, and some
Of them seem fine enough to shelter a
Rothschild
ITS FAMOUS RACES.
Newmarket is annually the scene of
many famous races. In the course of
the year there are eight race meetings
at Newmarket-the Craven, the First
and Second Spring the First and Sec
Ond July, the First and Second. October
and the Houghton, at which the princi-
pal stakes run for are the 1000 guineas.
the 1000 guineas, the princess of Wales
stakes, the Ceasarewitch stakes. the
Middle Park plate, the Cambridgeshire
stake and the Dewhurst plate
All English racing authorities like to
say that the development of the New
market and of horse racing in New York
are one and the same. The history of
English horse racing is interesting be-
cause American horse racing was estab-
iished on the same line. One English
writer says on this subject:
In this country the history of horse
racing. may. indeed, be said to be one
with that of Newmarket. The records
of its earliest infancy are difficult to
Ia.
that there were good horses in these
Islands long before the blood of eastern
sires had given them their courage
and the stud book stamp of quality"
both of which have doubtless been de-
rived from that source only. though the
we'll known to American race goers, are
speed. which now has made our horses
famous over all the world, is far more
likely to have come down to them from
rheir British ancestors.
In the reign of Henry the VIII.
various laws We're passed about breed
ing. and in that of Edward the vi.
the stealing of horses was made a capt.
tai offense. There does not seem to have
been very much interest taken in the
matter during the reign of Elizabeth,
but no soner had James the I. succeed
ed to the throne than it at once began
TO show itself again. 1t is on record
that he was the first to establish
race meeting al Newmarket which he
also attended in person, and we know
that he built stables there, which were
subsequently enlarged and added to by
his luckless successor, who also encour-
aged the races there.
Needless to say that under Cromwell
this new amusement was. like any 9TH
er recreation Of the people, promptly
stopped, and. equally, of course. when
Charles the II. got his own again the
pendulum swung back, and racing was
restored along with all other
sports and pastimes of 'Merrie Eng
land The Orange Prince was a good
patron of what had then become the
national sport; and so also was Queen
Anne in whose reign it was that the
most important event in the history of
the British stud book, and the great
foundation of it's present excellence.
TOOK place when the barley Arabian
vas imported into this country
From that day forward our breed of
horses went on improving steadily. and
the little town-as it was then-half in
Suffolk, half in Cambridgeshire. became
more famous every year as the best
known home Of the English thorough
bred, and the principal racing center of
the British isles"
A LONG SEASON.
Racing in England begins this month
and does not end until the first of No
vember. So the cable will soon begin to
bring the news of victory, or defeat,
for the American horses. The first event
of note is the Lincolnshire handicap,
run on NoVamher % The darby is set