New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-24
Nominations to Juvenile
Stakes Show Turf
Renaissance.
AMERICAN STOCK IS
REGAINING STRENGTH
Foreign Sires Will Also BE We'll
Represented as a Result
of HostilitieS.

represented in the important stakes Tor
two-yesr-olds 90 be decided IN the
course Of the coming season.
In 1916 and 1917. moreover, the mum
Der OF home bred and foreign challenn-
gers Of the stud fame Of such reliable
Yankee stock as Hastings, Ogqen'
Plaudit. Watcrboy, Fair PLAY, Zen
Brush. Aeronaut, Peep O. Ney ana
Hamburg will have become stIH more
numerous. All Of which IS encouraging
20 the votary OF racing.
The stock Of horses OF stout Amerl-
can BLOOD was fast running out because
~ the wholesale shipping abroad OF
.horoughbreds IN the years that IoI.
owed the anti-racinC legislation OF
1903 and 1910 ln New ORR state ana
d. began 10 look as though the AmeIl-
can turf might have 10 depend IN nut
ure on second and third rate horses
Ehose like would have received scan.
consideration AZ the great nurseries OF
Kentucky and Virginia hiteeh OF
twenty wears back. Rcplenishment was
necessary 10 prevent the deterloIa'oi.
~ the breed. and the appearance OF
this new blood IS bright win pio'''se
Of Good snort for the future.
IT, t,,rf owes this renaissance Of tho
Thoroughbred family TO two causes
namely the revival Of the sport M TINS
.tetc in 1918 and 1914 by the Jockey
Ciub and several OF the cnterpnSing
Eastern racing associations. when nag
stimulated home breeding and stopped
tho migration Of good horses OF amer
90, stock. and the great war ia Eu-
~one which seems likely 10 keep the
minds Of lovers OF the thorough oreu j"
England and France of racing TOT SUM-
time 10 come. Many Americans VIZ
went abroad in 1905, l9o9 ana IVY III
tbeir snort have had 20 come DaoN
49,. ,iitb pood horses 20 have any
racing at all.
Effect of War on Racing.
Even IL the war does not last ano'nt'
vear a. General JOifre and otheI ein5I
nent military specialists predlct' u VIII
take the great nations OF Luiope; J."
which racing has fouushed LOT haIl d
century as "a national sport !c"l %
so 10 restore the industrial. and polu-
oI bsience the war has so rudely up
set. and while they an about tnaJ
work their racing must wait ana ours
should continue 10 improve .z.o,,,
Whether there viii be found among
Tho new foreign bred youngsters the
war has providonuaAy sent 70 the
United States horses that shall prove
worthy TO take the places at American
stud farms Of Rock SAND, tlheloei -
Fitz- Herbert, Adam, Novelty, S!i MA I'M
and Dalmatian. the most prliHahI o.
the stations shipped out OF the eouh-
try since 1908, Is purely specula WI h
nronosition. But there are some ven
6red colts among the outlanders, ana IL
will N least be interesting TO watch
,bem develop as they race with the
nroduce of the new American stations
revt season and for several years 10
The brand new American horses best
represented in the stakes OF 1910 are
Sweep. Sir John Johnson. King James
Colin. Countless, Dartworth, JACK Al
Kin and Hilarious, and with theSe may
be grouped SupeTman. Ballot tet' u
umus. Sea King. Sir Huon and fayel'e,
ALI Of which had two-year-olds OUT laa1
season and several or which were rep
ycsented the season before. But they
were only indifFcrently represented ana
they are consequently as new, 10 all
intents and purposes, as the others
The names and form OF these recent
champions are familiar TO the men ana
women Of America who support racing
to-day. I'm whose minds the achieve
,nents OF such heroes Of twenty-five and
n irty wears ago as Hindoo and Luke
blackburn, Longstreet, Hanover ana
Kingston. Of which the old inhabitants
love to pirate, are hazy traditions ana
the competition from day TO DAY OF
tbeir ofspring in oldtime classics Us
calculated to create new interest and
give the sport, which rs but slowly re-
covering from ITS outrageous wounds, a
new impetus.
The Get of King James.
Ei,c Jaues a great horse in many
pArts Of the country in 1908, 1909 and
1910. is REPRESENTED I'm various stakes
by Youngsters that will bear the silks
Of James Butler, Frank J. Nolan, An
drew Miller. Frederick Johnson and one
or two others, and every man with a
King James two-year-Old Is confident
he has a world beaten for all OF them
showed speed in their ycarllng trials
last fall King James is closely IN
bred horse OF the family OF Himyar ana
was easily the greatest OF the sons OF
Plaudit
Fayette. a son Of Ogden and Sara
toga Belle, which traces direct TO Mag
Yie h. b. in the female line, was not
discreditably represented last season
bv the hlly Lady Rotha, and he Will
have representative this year IN the
stables OF John +. Madden and James
O. Oxnard. Mr.. Madden thinks highly
OF his half-brothcr to Trojan by Fay
cite.
The unbeaten Colin will have only
one or two youngsters for next season s
racing, and they were bred IN England
where the Commando stallion stood a
couple OF years before the executors OF
the estate Of the late James X. heene
brought him back 20 this country and
sold him 70 Price Mckinney for ser
.ice NJ Kingston Farm.
Sweep. the Futurity winner OF l9uy
and a rafting good horse OF the male
line Of Bramble and Ben Brush, has
,wo.vear-olds in many stables, as has
also Celt. which was represented last
vear by his first -ycar-olds Co
ouette. Andrew NJ, Gaelic, Embroidery
am Brian Boru being the ones that
showed best for him. Sir John John-
son made a season az Captain Edward
3. CAssatt's Chesterbrook Farm IN
Pennsylvapia, three years ago, and rs
re resented In the Cassatt stable 10y
brothers 20 Lawsuit, Spring Board and
Garbage.
Trap Rock and Jack Atkin.
Trap Rock. son Of Rock Sand and
Topisry and full brother 90 Tracery, a
horse August Belmont refused 10 sell
for 5000. 900 year and half ago, Will
show half dozen good looking colts
and FLIES and they viii be the first
grandsons and granddaughters Of Rock
Sand 20 come 20 the post Trap Rock
probably WAS not as good race horse
as Tracery, but he was clever sort,
nevertheless. and he has proved an eX-
cellent breeder.
That popular old sprinter Jack Akin,