Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
AMERICANS LOOK
TO BRITISH TURF
NOMINATE FOALS FOR CLASSIC
STAKES
JAMES r. KEENE ENTERS FOR
OAKS AND DERBY
Best Bred Sons OF Great Performers
Placed on List for Derby OF 1912.
Newcastle Stable is Rep
resented

NEW YORK, July 31.-Eighteen
American foals and weanlings have
been nominated through Walter s. Vos-
burgh, the representative of the British
Jockey club in this country. for the
Derby of 1912, and sixteen have been
named for the Oaks.
The nominators are James r. Keene,
proprietor of Castleton stud; William
Astor Chanier, proprietor of farm in
Fauquier county Va. and the New
castle stable, proprietors of the Mill
stream stud, at which the French stall
lion, Adam, stood while he was in this
country.
The Keene nominations are the best
bred sons of Disguise. Ben Brush, Del
hi, Peter Pan, Kingston and Voter that
have appeared at Castleton this Jeason.
Mr.. Chanler's youngsters are by Olym-
plan, a son of Domino and Belle of
Iroquois, and a half brother to Tenny
and other American stations. The
Newcastle nominations are principally
the offspring of Adam and Handspring.
To Go After Stakes
1t was expected that Mr.. Keene and
the proprietors of the Mlllstream stud
would make nominations for the Derby
and Oaks Mr.. Keene has always put
some youngsters in the Classice Swear
old events on the other side, and he
has had more success racing at New
market, EPSON, Gatwick, Goodwood,
Kempton Park and the other English
tracks these ten or fifteen years than
any other American. But the advent
of Mr.. Chanler as a nominator in for
eign events will cause some surprise.
His farm in Fauquier county, albeit a
good one, is new to racing, and Olym-
plan has no reputation as a stallion.
21If T,s A NJ fo
emily to make his breeding venture a
go, and every one wishes him luck.
1t Is a sure thing that August Bel
mont, Harry Payne Whitney and Her
man B. Duryea will make nominations
in the English races, but they will do
1t on the other side. Mr.. Belmont and
Mr.. Whitney are in Great Britain now,
and Mr.. Duryea is in France, where
he has established a stud. Mr.. Belmont
has set up a stud near Dieppe in Nor
mandy, but he has nothing from that
establishment to put in such races as
the Derby and the Oaks. His nomina-
tions will be products of the Nursery
stud, sons and daughters of Rock Sand,
Hastings, Singleton and Octagon.
John z. Madden, who sold Sir Mar
tin, the post favorite in the last Derby,
to Louis Winans, the man whose COL
ors he bore at Epson, may make some
mountainous LOT the DERBY ana OdkS
of 1912 in the name of W. r. Cory.
If these American horsemen ever
hope to win English classics they had
better send American trainers over to
fit their candidates for their engage
ments. The experience of Sam Dar-
ling with the Keene horses this year
illustrates the futility of attempting to
campaign American horses under Eng
lish trainers. James Rowe sent a vast
ly better bunch of racers to Darling
than Jack Joyner took to Newmarket
for Harry Payne Whitney. Yet. thanks
to the American methods employed by
Joyner, the Whitney horses are max
ing a much better showing than are
those of Mr.. Keene. If James Rowe
had gone to England with the Keene
string there can be little doubt but
that we would be getting better ac-
counts Of the performances of Ballot,
Helmet, Selectman, Suffragette. Esper-
anto. Melsande and the Castleton p
year-olds in Darling's charge than are
coming over the cables from time to
time.