The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-29
EUROPE BUYING
CLASSY HORSES
Turning More and More to This
Country for New Blood
for Its Stables.
STRONG ENCOURAGEMENT
TO BREEDING INDUSTRY
Norfolk Race Meeting Will
Draw From Many Noted
Strings of Racers.
BY JAMES DoCKERALL.
Leased wire 10 The TrIbune,


NEW YORK. Jan. 2s--John splan. the
and very soon. too. all the world outside
Of this country WILL he coming here TO
buy blooded stock. And he contends that.
In sIfte OF all drawbacks. the breeding
industry Is now on such a permanent
foundation that nothing can iniure 1t or
interfere with It's gradual but steady i'm
provement,
'T do believe" he says. "that the for
eign demand for our trotters has been
Of greater benefit to our breeding indus
try than anything we can imagine, for
they have not only bought plenty from
U.S. but paid high prices"
For years he has preached the value OF
the foreign demand for our trotters. and,
contrary TO prevailing ideas never be-
stallion or mare that we can consider
as loss to our breeding ranks.
MIR. Splan had Just returned from the
docks after shipping the noted stallion
asked II II was not mistake to sell a
horse of the breeding, record and indi
vidaulitv OF Bob Douglas.
There is not trotter In this country
which we should not sell to foreign Gus
toners as long as they are willing to pay
the price.
"You. tell me Bob Douglas should not
have been sold because he is the fastest
and best representative Of the stallion
Todd but you forget the fact that We
better than the expatriated horse was.
We have plenty OF Todds which will breed
on and show the merit they possess. and
n Douglas makes good on the other side
he will prove gold mine TO all American
breeders who own horses belonging to
that branch
"My doctrine has heen for twenty-five
years and will be- to sell the very best
we have as long as we get full value for
them.
austria Hungary is our hest custom
er but let me assure YOU their success
will bring to us other countries In the
near future, and we will supply them all
with our best"
Norfolk Meet Is Popular.
The Norfolk, Va. second spring meet
ing. April TO rs, which has the sanction
OF the Jockey club. Will be a success. II Is
anticipated. The horsemen who took part
In last falls meeting were so pleased
with the track and the manner IN which
tho races were conducted that they are
men with them. Norfolk will get the
best horses racing in Florida now, and
many now in winter quarters in Mary
land and Virginia and on eastern tracks.
James Rowe, the man who has handled
the racing establishment of James r.
Keene since 1899. and won a total OF
$4,000, 600 in stakes and purses, Is one OF
Norfolk's enthusiastic boosters. Thomas
Healey. who developed The Parader and
Naushon for Richard T. Wilson, Jr., Is
another.
Henry M. Zlegler OF Cincinnati has re-
turned from Europe. Mr.. Zieger went
abroad late In the autumn to place his
stallion, Her1nis. in France. Hermis, WIN
ner OF the Suburban handicap Of 1904. and
the greatest racer of his time, Is advan-
tageously established on the other side.
Mr., Ziegler has himself purchased half
dozen beautifully bred English, French
and American mares.
Hermis Is one OF the many famous
American horses driven abroad by the
anti-race track legislation. The Ken
tuckians undoubtedly would have given
him a chance If things had remained as
they were, but 1t seemed hardly worth
their while to breed to an untried horse