Evening star., 1946-04-08
Breeders Push Fight
For Registration Of
Horses Taken in Reich
BY q Stoff Correspondent of The Stor

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FRONT ROYAL, Va, April g.
Representatives of American thor
oughbred breeders were preparing
today to renew their efforts to have
the American Jockey Club register
SO thoroughbreds, brought to this
country by the Army from Ger
many, so their blood lines may not
be lost to American racing.
Meanwhile, Gen. Jacob L. Devers.
chief of the Army Ground Forces.
and Field Marshal Sir Henry Matt
land Wilson were here as guests of
Col. Marion Vorhees, commanding
officer of the Ayrshire Quartermaster
Depot, to inspect the European
horses being exhibited here. The
post was formely known as the
Front Royal Remount Depot.
The thoroughbreds, along with Is
Arabs, Is grade Arabs, Lippizan-
ers and 81 half breeds, were shown
by the Army at the depot yesterday
to more than 500 horse lovers from
all parts of the United States.
Horsemen said it was the finest
showing of blooded horses ever held
in this country.
Louis Beard manager of the Whit
ney stables at Lexington, KY; J. A.
Estes, editor of the Blood Horse,
and DR.. Eslie Asbury, former presi-
dent of the American Thorough
bred Club, who were among promi-
nent horsemen at the showing, will
protest to the Jockey Club on its
failure to register the German
thoroughbreds
Army Will Help.
Col Fred l.. Hamilton, chief of
the Army's Remount Service, who
conducted yesterdays show, said the
Army would make every attempt to
assure Identification of the cap
tured horses to the club. He said
relations between the American
Jockey Club and the French Jockey
Club on registering the thorough
bredS might be a matter to be
handled by the State Department.
Although failure of the American
club to register the horses would
mean that their blood lines would
be lost to American racing, Col
Hamilton pointed out that the
Army was interested in breeding
good horses for its remount service,
and could use the European horses
in any event.
Top horses among the thorough
bred stations shown were Nord-
LIGHT, winner of last years German
Derby, which was described by Mr.
Estes as "the finest thoroughbred
on the Continent; Seidelblast,
which would have been a favorite
this year if the German Derby had
been held, and Tai Akbar, bred in
Ireland by the Aga Khan. This
horse won the English Chester Cup
and placed second to Mahmoud in
the English Derby in 1886 before he
was bought by the Germans.
Draw Royal Coach.
The event at yesterdays show
that brought the greatest response
from spectators was a royal Aus
trian coach drawn by four Lip
pizaner mares, decked in gold-
trimmed harness bearing the royal
coat of arms. The coach and four
was driven by 1t. T. j. Smith,
member of the team that brought
the horses to this country last Oc-,
tober.
The Lippizaners, used to draw the
Austrian royal coaches and trained
in dressage at the Spanish Riding
School in Vienna because of their
high action, were first bred at Lip
piZa on the Austrian-Italia bor-
der from Arabian and native stock
The stud, including five stations
and IL mares, was purchased by
Prince Karl of Austria about 1850,
and since then the horses have
been bred by the Austrian govern
ment.
Col. Hamilton explained that the
horses Of greatest value to the
Army are the 81 half breeds, most
ly bred in East Prussia. OF pow
erful build and exhibiting great en-
durance, he said they also should be
Of value in breeding up Western
ranch stock.
Col. Hamilton said that while
these horses are called half breeds,
designating their thoroughbred in
fuence, they represent a distinct
breed that has been established
over several hundred years. He said
in his estimation they contain mol
cold blood, since the native foun-I
dation stock used dates back tol
the early eastern invasions of Eu-