TEN THOUSAND POUNDS FOR A YEARLING.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7260, 21 January 1889, Page 2

TEN THOUSAND POUNDS FOR A YEARLING.

Ten,thousand?,pounds;for a yearling! Fancy, Bays V Rapier," siaA an offer befig made, and—by a still greater effort of imagination—fancy it being refused! I am told, however, that no smaller a has been offered for Riviera, an own sister to Seabreeze ajyi Antibes, aod that Captain Machelt has declined'it on the ground that Rtvtera-isTJriceless.; In these days of big states, an animal that .can really ..gallop may of course win a fortuae in a season if two conditions prove fdvotrr&ble: that is to say; if, in the first place,-the horse can be got to the post fit and well, and if, in the second place, he will do his best; will run up tohis form, when there. But when we think what perils environ racehorses, and howvcry often they prove themselves: to be cowards or rogues, J doubt the Wisdom of refusing £10,000, certainly for any yearling which has not been tried, and may not be able to gallop at aIL or else only to get something shortof Sve furlongs. How easily the cold is caught; how soon it developes into influenza, in spite of the best, nreeautkras; and then how probable It is that when the horse has apparently recovered and is sent its first half-speed gallop, the trainer will hear an oraißpes sound when he listens to his charge's respiration I He will vainly try to believe that the good-looking youngster has not turned roarer, but he Toiowb too well that it is so. Or again: our trainer may listen to the animal's breathing with patfeet satisfaction. It is steady, moderate, and equable, though they come along at a good ipfcce too} but at five o'clock stables somethiugf induces him to, nru his haad dowa the filly's legs, .and /there is no doubt that one of them, is a little hot and puffy. Nest morning the eye wants no assistance from the hand—-the leg has all too obviously filled. A Sfpunt may be comparatively unimportant, or it may come in a place which is simply *ataL Or, once more, wind and legs may keep sound, the youngster may have been tried a certainty. According to all calculations he has a stone in hand, out though gofog easily at the distance he will not leave his horses when asked to do so; his Jockey's j attempt to drive him merely !*&*&* Wn J j pot back bis earsandhaos, and -_«V™?ffJ plodder not within 211bef him iffee would do his best straggles home a winner.-!*© JI Of the three alteriJAtiWffl, it to mc much wiser to take, than to offer or torefuse £10-,OWl«r& yearling, I