The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-29
FOREIGN SPORTING NEWS.
Sainfoin the Leading English Sire THIS
Season-l:reat Club-Swinging.

| Sainfoin the Leading English Sire THIS
Season-Great Club-Swinging.
| With majority Of the big races. including
| the Derby. Oaks. Lincolnshire. Suburban.
| Two Thousand One Thousa nd. Jubilee and
| Newmarket stakes. the Manchester Cup
| and Ascot u old Cup passed into history.
| the breeders have begun to figure on the
winning sires for 1903. or course subsequent
| events will alter the table somewh hat. but ut
present Sainfoin. by Springfield out OF
| Sanda, leads the list with q total OF Gll.3a,
TO contribute toward this sum the sire only
| pr oduced two winners with total OF four
races Rocksand. who won the Derby. is
| undoubtedly nstrum entail in placing Sain-
| foin at the top. Next to Sainfoin comes
| ST. Frusauin. by st. Simon out OF Isabel.
| but he is more than E2.0oo behind the sire
| Of the Derby winner. He had nine winners.
Quintessence and st Emilion being the top
| notch contributors. A good margin les
| between him and Ayrshire by Hampton
! out of ATLANTA. his total being 1884, Jug
Gler who died not long since. is in fourth
place with Ej.l7o, Next comes Gallnule.
by Isonomy out OF Moorhen, with e.. ssl. and
he is followed by persimmon, by St Sim on
| out Of Perdita H.. his figure being E4.ii2.
| Rightaway. Amphion. Bay Ronald and the
| Russia bred Colorado follow in the order
named. In fourteenth place comes Galone
| by Galopn out Of Lady Mama and bred
! in America. Another Amercan-bred stall
lion to figurein the list is The Bard. by Long
fellow out OF Brademante and in nineteenth
place Only sires whose get have earned
e. 900 are included in the list. and one oil the
most notable horses not to cone up TO the
fl.0lo standard is st. Simon.
The Royal Ascot this year was an improve
ment over the 1902 meet. the fields being much
larger and the added money about the same
The events which showed an increase we're
~. t,lnl nod nj
Biennial. Those with falling OF were the
Gold Vase. Prince OF Wales Stakes and Forty
ninth Triennal. This year King Edwards
Mea only secured L l.. $50. while for the same
event Ia st year Mr.. Gubbins. with Ard Patrick.
benefited to the amount Of coos. On the
first day the added money was cs.oOo which
was much the same az last year.
Quo vads, the champion three-year-old
of France in point Of breeding has good
English strain in him. He is by Winkfeld's
Pride winner OF the Cambria seshire in 1895
and the Lincolnshire Handicap in 1897. Sir
Joseph Hawtrey's blood traces through the
Grand Prize and French Derby winners.
through the same mare aplet-sister to
Rosicrucian. as Ex Vote WAS by lie Lancy
out OF Golden Rod by Bend Or out Of
Penzance, by Hermit. her dam. Chaplet.
and Quo vedis is by Winkield's Pride son
Of WINFIELD, by Barcaldne out Of Chaplet.
This year the value Of the Grand Prize
S0S.s ~. on the uhS III tHe Ia'e tbe rum pi
$500 900 was taken in by the mutuals.
An account of wonderful feat of club
swinging comes from South Africa II is to
the effect that Tom Burrows swung a pair of
Indian clubs at Metropolitan Hail. Cape Town.
for a period Of 20 hours. making $50 Geo
circles in that interval. This performance
was accomplished in match a ga inst william
West, who had a previous record OF swinging
"a hours. When the contestants had been
swinging "a hours Burrows WAS making ITO
circles per minute. while West only made eS.
but the latter kept on and tried to equal his
former record. After a little while. however.
he began to tire and finally quit at 81, hours.
Passing the 3sth hour Burrows increased
his speed and was then making IoS circles
to the minute Soon after he worked up more
speed and swung Al he rate of 1870 per minute.
while all this time his execution WAS faultiess
When he had been swinging 40 hours and 10
minutes Burrows stopped. and he was. IN the
presence OF a large crowd. proclaimed cha M
pion club swinger Of the world
Owing to the presence Of ". PAM do Luien
Of Belgium ana Count o,trien Of Spain. an
i!pternaton,s tone was added to the Noting
sweepstakes Luden and OBren divided the
money each brl sins down four birds. emitting
fio added. the visitor. also took part, The
Tnner turned up in SI Rhp G.sE and
The walking fad i still booming. and one
Of the lates! things about the craze Is that the
srsnasa Il. Press
2.s sss s srd Hsshsnss Wss s sa
S 81 ppSs to Ssnd old i h. :sSs
on the pastime as follows:
1T Is refreshing to note that the question |
Of walking as an exercise has now at !
10 exercise or recreation has hitherto |
been ls;. Appreciated or more generally
s.iss are nvsriabIy ociated With ternpen
c"sS'.s,ss and a,i,, VIII %sn,sl saTs.t iii.
the mind. Walking lmproves dissstion os and ID
sf"et the sody s''n There an ID
as cudworth eH Expresses IT. marical sympathy +
esGsnsy % Me AND s%ar BODY tn. sd ss
tate to the gods what blessinrs they should
sound mind and equally SOUND body What
is more solkinE tours cen be INDUCED in
necessary expense Demands on endurance nd r.re
are lcsssned the more the limbs. within due
oT xssns Win RESULT ,r IN h
and sensible return to old time clubs and
W SSs pr ,hs So the coming
Hardly snythirs. i anything, has pleased
Sunday clubs as the direc, outcome &c, e' Of III"
! current craze for walking. At Manchester
strong basis for those Interested IN the health.
| full sport Of walking and for the organiza-
| ton Of frequent country walks, tours. &c.
| petitions are all very we'll in their way, but
nothing can equal social outings OF this ma
| the German proyerb and. ono may add, good
society out o, i ,ors also. Organized walk
ing tours should speedily find general favor
Those who have more time 10 spare viii
have no difficulty in selecting their routes
Many prefer to spend their pedestrian holi.
Gays on foreign land. and perhaps it Is as
we'll TO do the Continent when We can. Most
ansiishmen. howerer. will ind variety
| shire. the Dukeries district Weet naarcland