The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-06
PROSPECTS FOR ENGLISH TURF
STRAIGHT RIDING AND LITTLE
JOSTLING NOW THE, RULE.
Prominent Owners watch Trials At New.
market-Wiliiam Rufus . Likely Derby
Candicizte-Holbein to Again Try
Channel Swim-FOreign Gossip

ushered In the Hat racing season. which
will flourish from now until Nov. !. Never.
perhaps. has the sport OF horseracing been
! 80 well patroniyed as 1t is at the present day
in the British Isles. and q good deal Of this
! prosperity IL principally due to the favor
which King Edward has 50 sbundantly Law
ished on the sport. Until the Derby. on May
81. has been run attention will be chiefly
directed toward Newmarket. where most OF
the cracks are undergoing preparation. Last
week host Of owners went down and there
we're a number OF fast trials. Among the
lot who watched the horses were Sir Edgar
| Vincent. Lord Falmouth. Lord Howard de
Walden. Sir X. Waldo Grif!ths. Leonard
Brassey. John Garrett, and others.
A Derby candidate who has caught the
eye Of the critics recently Is william Rufus.
lie will be seen in the Two Thousand Guineas
| on April 20, and Is spoken Of as a high-class
colt and likely to do great things. He is q
big. rangy chestnut, with splendid limbs
and well bred. for he Is by Melton. winner
OF the Derby and St. Leger la 1885. Baroness
La Fleche. the top-notoh flly. has. 1t is said.
wintered well and has filed out in bone and
| muscle. Blackwell's Derby colts, Rock and
and flotsam. are doing well. and the same
| can be said OF sermon.
or the present conditions OF the turf. the
starting gate and the doinps Of the Amsri-
! can jockeys. Sir Hercules, the veteran Eng
i
have been pruned down in numbers. in
| territorial jostling. crowding and interfersnce
| with runners have also died down. The
few fanks now in the saddle are, like Maher.
| OF the right sort in every sense. and there
, fore welcomed BY all ANY that would be
at the game Of two years ago know that
| such poachers are now closely watched.
II not actually Swallowed. with this result:
Straight now IS their riding work. whether
| they will or not. like dope. the gate has
come TO stay. As II Is, II reduces the start
TO an absolute lottery; at every start II gives
each runner only just such a chance as does
the draw for place in the start for the Good
wood Stewards Cup: you may get OF well
or badly. be jostled or not. The old syster.
fell because the jockeys In wagering time,
got the upper hand Of a starter. all too merc-
full for such highly paid racing grooms'
However. like bolt from the blue came
the i've pounder TO remedy all He brought
with him all that was needful to make an
end or Jockey rings. and, better STILL in his
abundant plenty q continuous brake on
the workings of the older school, whose
, science was no less faulty than their busi-
ness habits were unsound. All told, the
| new year Of racing. viewed from all points.
gives Immense promise for the better Evil
has all around been earmarked stewards
| supreme. a. well as stewards ordinary, are
more bent on doing some police work than
ever before. The ring hiss been. as It were.
doped and financially parged into better
| by the coinless ADVENTURE. Horseresh,
even senerally. so far as it was, ran the sea-
all told. favored ~ IL has been by the weather
this year. we may safely count on form hold
Is Its swn N the sHp ana s,fs which
for good sport and good racing,
II repor,Ss SPEAK ttq{ two men .ni will attend,
IL X lbein. who failed TWICE last year, and he
| has announced that he will make his attempt
AS SI Ths ,o other esndidats for fame
10 take place between Moon and 'ieorse
start for England, Hoibein hiss already
ea IN The tsr tss ief contained
following on the Olympic games to be held
! ~ 81. Louis next year:
as It ought TO be that 1874 Is an Olympic year;
In other words, 1t will be the date of the third
celebration q the az nadrennai meeting which
| ,ireek festival n order to proclaim the fact
that IL Is open to all nations which the origin
! first ofthe new meetings was allo ted 10 thens,
where the Rroundman of the London Athletic
Club ITO tool in hand the laying or Of track
| the second was carried out more or less salts
factorily in Paris. In bolt American athletes
took conspicuous and successful share.
! bly, the distance that the world has travelled
since the .p'ntaihlum and the chariot races
| Of the Alpheus than the fact that the honor
OF furnishing the arena for the next celebra;;
| ton has been in dispute between the rival
cities OF St. Louis and Chicago
Originally Chicago was chosen by the in
On hoS an SH, St b. .GaE eS1S
run a festival Of its own regardless Of this
| nXture. and as there could be no room for
two great meetings In the same year. chi.
| cago has been forced 10 give up it's Cherished
| hope Of being the centre OF civ ilizstion for a
day or tGo 10 the aponde1c, thqt has
! plan Games Of 1904. writing from Chicago,
bows to the inevitably. recognizing that the
| Com 10 International olyinpque. from its
hsad?parters in Paris. while regrett!n3
| with a universal exhibition in view Of the
| Inconvenience demonstrated By the .X-
perience OF 1900 eau find no way OF refusing
over Norton. the big six -year-old chestnut
yh9 won the rin In daa, has been sGid 10
but butt il was agreed that he horse should stay
in the care OF {. Waugh The price paid
The ancient sport OF archery will boom
considerably m; year as the dates for public
Lesmingt on and the Midland Counties are the
first meetings and they will take place on June
10 and II: and a new meeting has been sched-
uied for the southern Counties at Biddington
Park, June - and "A. The Grand Western
tourney goes to the Recreation Grounds.
Bath, July IS. 10 and liz. Al Edinburgh.
| Scotland, the Grand National will take place
| the week beginning July 20 and the 'irand
| Mort hern at Nantwick. August 70. "a and IS.
| The season will wind np with the Hereford
Round Nee ting at Hereford. Sent. ?.
This country il to have another invasion
| OF lawn tennis players this season on which
! "old Blue" IN Squirting Late makes the fol-
! lowing remarks: 49,
am asked to say that In addition to the
| list of English vs.. American International
! sporting contests mentioned last week, repre-
sentative lawn tennis teams viii also do
1 battle at Boston this year. The match win
| probably take place az the grounds Of the
wood club. commencing on Aug. 3 next.
IL is eminentiy satisfa Glory TO know this Tor
| two great reasons. Firstly. ii shows that
| the deyotees OF this game are no longer looked
| uDon as grasshoppers. with a c~rtain sense
| of pity and resentment and SECONDLY, EN-
phasi,es my opinion Of last week., that, In
sporting esprit de corps, ut Least. English
msn and Americans are drawing closer every
wear / do not suppose these interchan gees
Of sporting amenities will have any direct
| effect upon the policies Of these two great
AnRlo-Saxon nations, but indirectly they
must needs bear much good fruit. They
lead TO n better under-t andmg between the
| people OF the Old and New World. which T.
half the battle. The benefit of International
games does not consist In the s,bcess or pro-
fcienoy attained slone. No, but In the moral
| training which they give together with the