The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-15

NEW AOhh, req. INSTRUMENTATION
has come from London to the effect
that at a recent meeting of the En-
glish Jockey club a resolution was
passed that no thoroughbred horses
imported from America will be eligible
for registration in the English stud
book The resolution has not yet been
made public, and the exact meaning
of the ruling is not quite clear. 1t
would seem, however, that hereafter
the American thoroughbred is to have
no official standing on the English turf
or the English breeding farm.
If this is true 1t is a direct discrim-
nation against the American thorough
bred and the American owner, and fear
of the American horse on the turf and
In the market seems to be the only
thing that could inspire such action on
the part of the powerful and exclusive
turf governing body. Because Ameri-
can horses have raced well over there,
American sportsmen have won races,
and an American jockey has shown the
English riders how to ride, the racing
authorities of the greatest sporting
country in the world are scared.
Whether such a rule would bar the
American horse from the English turf
as we'll as from the farms and markets,
is a question, and it is not unreason-
able to suppose that all that is intended
is to put stop to the shipping of year.
lings from here. A few breeders tried
this and found good market in Eng
land, and their success encouraged 9TH
erS to try it, so that there was the
promise of several good-siZed conSign-
ments being sent this year, and the En-
glish thoroughbred market might have
been affected by the exports. If, how
ever, the rule is intended to keep
American sportsmen from racing in
England, the BritisherS have expert
enced a change of heart in recent years
They We're glad enough to welcome
Richard Ten Brock when he went over
there with Prioress and others. He
was good thing to be joyfully pluck
ed. But Ten Brock beat them at their
own game.
Then Pierre Lorillard took the trans
continental trip with Parole and sur
prised the English public with his
horses performances. Iroquois, in the
same stable, was even more of a thorn
IN the English side, and gathered in
more Of English pounds than British
owners were willing to have go to
American pockets.
James Keene took shy at them with
FoXhall and added to the general gloom
VI l1S IlSuC little Island.
American racing was rich enough for
Tune to keep American owners home,
but recently Lorillard formed a part
nership with Lord Beresford, Richard
Croker bought a stud farm and sent
the best of his American horses to it,
the Dryers invaded the trans-A tlantic
Held with string, and While out of
this recent excursion there has come
no signal victory the Americans have
n q TOR IL 600 -.
racing to please the Britons.
The races and money won, however
were not as severe a shock to the Eng
l1Sh as was the idea that American
bred yearlings would sell we'll in their
market.
John Mackay. who manages for J. B.
Haggin the largest breeding establish
ment in the world, conceived the idea
OF shipping lot Of fillies over to Eng
Hsh breeders. No American has been
so liberal in English purchases as Hag-
gin, and when this first consignment
OF youngsters went over last fall they
brought high prices
Other American breeders began to
lock toward England as a possible field
for the placing Of their surplus stock
of FLIES. Gen. Jackson, of Belle Meade.
selected from the FLIES of his farm
choice lot by Iroquois, wisely suppos-
ing that the get of a horse so well
known as Iroquois would commend
themselves to English breeders.
Bruce Seatcn, an Englishman, seeing
Haggln's profit, came to this country.
and has been pottering about the
breeding establishments Of the Blue
Grass in an endeavor to oick out a
shipload of fillies for his English breth-
rem. His conspicuous purchase was ten
yearling fillies from Milton Young. of
the McGrathiana stud. He paid $500
each for them. All of them were by
Hanover. The English ruling will OBJ
tam against this English dealer, as it
will against the American breeders.
Bruce Seaton and Gen. Jackson were to
ship together.
Now that the American product has
been practically barred from English
participation. ali these orders from the
other side will of necessity be Cancelled
and traffic which promised much to
the home breeders will be squelched
at its inception.