THE TURF IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1933, Page 4

THE TURF IN AMERICA

PAUCITY OF GOOD HORSES

I The presence of the Australian-bred gelding Winooka in the United States directs increased attention to racing in that country. Recent American papers express disappointment at the small number of good horses racing there at-, the present time, and "Roamer," one of the foremost authorities on racing and breeding, writing in tho "Thoroughbred Record," says:— "So far as I am able to determine, Equipoise is the only horse in this country iive years old or over that has any pretensions to real class; tho high-class four-year-olds begin and end with Gallant Sir; and, as for the.three-year-olds, Mr. Khayyam appears to be the best of a bad "When one considers that there are close upon 5000- thoroughbreds registered eacli year in this country, it is a scathing indictment of. both our breeding and our racing to be forced to • admit that there are no more than three first-class horses how in training—the two-year-olds naturally are not taken " into consideration. Whether or not the present-day British thoroughbred is inferior to those of 30 years ago must remain a. matter of conjecture, but one thing I am certain of •is that this country has been flooded during the past 15 years with hundreds of inferior British thoroughbreds, both male and female, and the cumulative effect of this indiscriminate importation of inferior foreign stock may be responsible for the marked degeneration of the present-day American racehorse." ' ' ' Equipoise, who is widely accepted as America's outstanding horse, has proved himself a first-class performer up to a mile and a quarter, and some of the best judges rate him equal to any horse that has raced there over the distance named. At Belmont Park, New York, in June, Equipoise carried 9.6 to victory in the Suburban Handicap and encompassed the 10 furlongs in 2min 2sec. . ' ';■