BRITISH BLOODSTOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 138, 14 June 1933, Page 8

BRITISH BLOODSTOCK

CRITIC ANSWERS CRITIC

i "There is not a shadow, of doubt in my mind that the best American racehorses today are the equals of any in the world, but I do resent Heir Becker's continuous* j attempts to prove tHat they owe no debt to, their British blood lines, in face of records that all may read," writes Mr. ! Harry Sharpe iv taking Herr Fr. Becker '("Thoroughbred Record") to task regarding his depreciation of British bloodstock. Mr. Sharpe has had 50 years' experience | as, etudi groom and iv other capacities among racehorses."As regards Herr Becker's invitation to nje to ponder on the sad• ease of tli-« 51 yearlings sold by public auction is 1031 for a total of £93,350, who.between* them won eleven races ol a total ♦««.■_ of £9299," Mr. Sharpe cotttinweir.^'l; personally place Jittle • value on.' tha^price sale yearlings bring as a guide in BOlving the intricacies of the breeding problem. I would rather, for instance, analyse .: th« pedigrees of the four best English two-year-olds of 1932, as I, think the r»co: track test more reliable than that of the sale ring. ' ■', ." ■'~ "At the end of the. 1932 season, th« official handieapper for the English Jockey Club, in his annual Free Handicap, plac*4 three fillies at the top, followed next by the colt Manitoba, the pride of"position, thus going to Myrobella (1331b), Betty (1301b), Brown Betty (1271b), and Manitoba (1261b). Myrobella. carries'two linesof St. Simon, three of Galopin, two of laonomy, and one each of Hampton, Bend Or, and Rouge Rose (sister to Bend Or). Betty carries three lines ■of St. Simon, one of Angelica (sister to St. Simon), two of Galopin, four of Bend Or, two of Hampton, and' one of Ispnomy. Broftn. Betty, carries three; lines: of St. Simon, two of Galopin, four of Hampton,' and! two each of Bend Or and Isonomy. Manitoba carries five lines o£ St. Simon, three of Galopin, three, each of Hampton »nd Inonomy, and two ©6 Bend Or. Prom these, facts I ihust deduce ihat up. to the end of 1932 the 'accumulator' was showing/ little defcay, was decidedly s not moribund, and, if doomed; will go down in a blaze of glory. ' i : ...;.'':■. "Nor will Herr Becker's anxiety regarding the future of American- bloodstock be allayed," concludes =Mr. = Sharpe, "whtn he reflects on the fact that the Jjernicioos blood of the above four leadingl two-yes* olds is carried:'by the stallion* Sickle, > Pharamond, Light Brigade, Bright. Knight, and St. Gerroaaii And that, too, through the 'predorninint maternal influence' oi tiirec mares. Sickle, Pharamond, and ■Myrobella descend from Qondolette, Bright, Knight, St. Germans, and Betty from Sceptre, and Light Brigade, Brown B«ttr» and Manitoba from' Santa Brflnda*"'- :