HEAVY ENGAGEMENTS.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7253, 8 March 1889, Page 2

HEAVY ENGAGEMENTS.

The sums that various owners in England spend on engaßlna; their young thoroughbwd stock in various MM* appears perfectly incredible. Take for lastance the following list from truth:— " At the beginning of last season the mow heavily-engaged two-year-old In the Calendar was 'MrAbingtonV Maynooth by Master Kildare, who was entered in sixtyeight races, having, I believe, cost his owner 1,500 gs. as a yearling. Maynoota won only one race, which was worth £101. *Mr Abington' was even more upforfcunats with Helvellvn, by Barcaldine, who, h*vin« cost 1,800 gs., was engaged In sixtyweven races, and he has never yet Btarted. Freemason, the 1,900 gs. colt by Barcaldine out of Geheimnlss, had sixty-one engagements, and started five times without winning. Pioneer, byGalopin,eo&tlooogs., had fifty-three engagements, and woa,» stake of *500 at Derby, and he was the most successful of hbv owner s large, costly, and heavily-enaaged team of two-year-olds. The Duke of Beaufort Was even more unfortunate, but without* p| excuses which might plausibly be pleaded for " Mr Abiii'ton." as his two-year-olds had not "rnnnfng" pedigrees, and wets unfashlonably bred; but owners deceive themselves about animals of their own breediwr with a gross facility which is ao once ludicrous and deplorable. f> eaDo X» by Beu Battle, had fortveigbt m__f' menrs and wounothing. Certaraert,by Ben Battle, bad (iffcy-one engagements, and.woo nothing. Cool, $y Lancastrian, bad nny three engagements, and won nothing. Dark Blue, by Petronel, had »"£ n J n e« a ' gagements, and won nothing. inwj»» dreary list, and It must already repW*fs» a loss of at least £1,200 in forfeitable* will be more than doubled fa tbecourseof the coming season. "Mr Mantoa fD^fj 1 Anfcibe.l, the sister to Seabreeze, in fl«ytwo races, and she won two, which were worth £075; but Australia, who bad fortyone engagements, ■ won «» Devil's Dauce, who had flfty-foUi '*£&&_ menta, only won a single race, Worth *»£ Jane Hading, by Isonomy out o* {annate (forty-four engagements), won notnrog, nor did Knight Templar, by <**M£ out of Pilj?rimage. who had forty five, nor iW* V Cbarlbert, who had fifty.one. •Mr SCanton's only OM»r remunerative two-year old wasSedaaWOj who won three races worth £2,f100, *«« she had only :JJ Benson entered Rigadon in *™T*ZZ stakes, Haslemere ia 'orty-mne, «»o Barklam In thlrty-slr, and not »[»<*%, ho win with either of them. The Daje oc Hamilton was another 'unluckyownsr, wr hla Jummy, by Fiddler, who iiKn«Kyet started, began with forty* ments; and Scottish Fusilier, by Low lander, who was in fifty-three races,, won a single race worth £2&0 by an W Da « Inglorious walk-over. f /'