The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-09
BRITAIN'S TALE OF WOE.
superiority of American Racing
Methods Too Patent to Dispute

opportunity OF American Racing
Methods Too Patent to Dispute
LONDON. June S.-London is still talk
ing OF the Derby and the Oaks. The
discussion of the relative merits of Amer
lcan and British methods of training
and riding has broken out anew. 1t must
be confessed that the British comments
are generally very fair. They SORROW
! fully admit the superiority of America
IN every point. The Sporting Times says:
Inc Derby has been won by a French
morse and an American horse, but never
tnlH wednesday was It won by a horse
that had other than an English Jockey
IN the saddle. Whatever our horses
might be, the supremacy Of our Jockeys
was deemed complete. But that fall
lacy is now exploded. Thus, two records
were broken, VIA jockey who was not
SUBJECT OF the king and the running
Oh the race in the fastest time on record.
''The Derby was an Anglo-American
triumph, but not so the Oaks, which was
American pure and simple. It is a fact
That rivalry ran high in America last
year between Mr.. Whitney and Mr..
keene, almost amounting to bad blood.
When a colt of Mr.. Whtney's beat
Olympian for the futurity Under the
circumstances 1t IS not a little singular
that Mr.. Whitney should have won the
Derby and Mr.. Keene the Oaks The
Derby running of Olympian told Darling
ne mad the Oaks in his pockets with Can
ana Bells H. To add to the American
triumph the Tammany Chieftain, Croker.
ran third in the Oaks while an American
Jockey won the winner of the Derby and
the first three in the Oaks were ridden
by jockeys of that nationality. Henry,
VINO was Imported by Mr. Keene. who
brought Sloan to this country, has made
rare beginning"
me papers have printed New York dis
patches saying that Mr.. Whitney would
take Volodyovski to America. but he can
not do that. He has simply leased the
horse for $4,000 cash and half Of what
Inc morse might win at three or four
years or age, after which he was to be
returned. Had Lady Muck cared to-
sell the colt outright on an offer that
was made he would now stand at $25 600.
the olier being 915000 down and 10000
more If he won the Derby
In these matters she had NOT locked
on money at all. Her great desire was
that as Higgins had borne the heat of
the day he should reap the reward. For
that reason she accepted an offer that
would admit Of. Volodyovskfs remaining
in his stable The only thing that
might have altered all this was if King
EDWARD had continued to be Prince OF
wales. But for his accession to the
throne we should now see him credited
with what no living has been credited
WITH VIZ: Three Derby winners Lady
Meu& is a very public-spirited woman.
She paid fully for a battery of guns
and the public is little aware Of the tons
OF stores and comforts she has caused to
De sent to the troops in South Africa.
She has a splendid collection Of Nelson
relcs, including Lady Hamilton's iewelrv
When temple bar was removed, LADY
MeuX saved the materials from being
broken up for sidewalks, had every stone
numbered, now old temple bar, exactly
as 1t was in the Strand, forms the prin-
clpai approach of her estate at Theo-
bald's park.
Fabulous sums were won on Can and
BeLs Ii. S victory on the Oaks The COM
nlss1Oners had literally unlimited orders
to back the filly as long as a decent
price was obtainable, and every American
man and woman, that saw Foxfian Keene
Tor week was advised to back the horse