The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-30

 !1ed as a sporting meeting. rather than c professional one.
 And while this has been a 'sportinc meeting, it has like all other racing, an underlying principle and reason which casual observers and superficial thinkers are frequently blind to. When all Is said and done. and the imnaterial things or the non.essen- tals, at east, in connection with rae ing have been given .heir due weight there remains the outstanding fact that without racing the breed of inc horse must dcteriorate
 This. has long passed uhe stage of a matter Of argument Ii is as firmly fixed as that two and two are four. And 1t is upon this knowledge. not theory, that the governments of con- tinental Europe gave great fortunes for the winners of the Derby and other great races in England, the stud-farm
 of the world insofar as the thorough hled horse is concerned. The Ger man, however he may be regarded in
 other matters, Was primarily an ex- emplar of efficiency He did not waste the public funds on fads. When he
 gave Sl25,000 for a Galtee More or an Ard Patrick it was a coldblooded busi. ness transaction. He didn't want
 .Lese horses 10 breed racehorses from because the German government is not in that business. He bought them
 no matter what the price. because be knew that only the blood of such horses cou d produce the results that rublic breeding aims at German, French and Russian buyers were alike
 They had tire funds 10 pay for the hest and they did not go to the show rings. They knew that the qualities oi speed, courage. endurance ana soundness can be determined by only one test, the test of the racecourse
 Handsome is as handsome does. runs a sound old proyerb, and good iooKs avail nothing without ability 10 per form
 The possession of a bit O blood in a horse means that he will struggle to the very death In his best efforts. while the cold-blooded animal gives up with hah the struggle. Whether car rying man or hauling a gun it is fhe same, and there are towards in the equine as well as the human race. The prudent man places his reliance in neither.
 At this present joLe.ure of unpre- EarednesS' this condition should he more strongly than ever impressed on the national mind. and throughout the country every encouagement should be given 10 racing, a work Tn :, which the Business Mems League is performing patriotic work of value | far beyond the thought Of those who ] never ,ook below the surface. It Is the dictum of Professor Rawlnson, one of the most eminent of historians. 1 and the time seems to be close at hand for another demonstration of its truth, now that European warfare is coming out or the trenches into the open, that 'Sincethe days Of the As syrIans the predominance among tho nations of the earth has been coinci- dent with, and in a large measure de- pendent upon the possession Of the best horses.
 The question of dealing with the noncomitant speculation of the turf has been satisfactorily dealt with in all parts of the civilized world, some sections of the United States alone excepted, by it's recognition. reeula- tion and limitation to racecourses dur
 ng racing hours. 1t hardly seems possible that the only wise solution has been arrived at in these few sec tions, while the universal and unani- nous consensus of the legislative bodies of all the remainder of the en- tire world, not for one geenration but
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