AMERICAN V. ENGLISH HORSES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 311, 9 July 1896, Page 7

AMERICAN V. ENGLISH HORSES.

MR LORILLARD’S OPINION. The American owner, Mr Lorillard, who has been fairly successful on the English Turf so far this season, made the following remarks to a scribe who was congratulating him on his vic- . lories : —“I haven’t a really good horse in the place. They are all of second, and even third, class order, and I really think that if wo Americans were to bring over some superior animals we could hold our own against the English stables. ) One must remember, however, that training at Newmarket is expensive, for not only have we to pay 7 guineas per horse per annum for Heath ■fees, but have to expend no small amount of money for trials and to pay jockey fees, &c., immediately a horse weighs in. There is very little difference in training here and on the other side of the Atlantic, excepting that here, owing to the arrangement of the gallops, we cannot use the watch, and this we Americans consider not only useful, biit highly necessary. When your horse starts a mile away from you, how can you clock him ? Of course, you might have signalmen placed at certain points, but that system would be inaccurate and inconvenient. Under the English si stem I don’t think it possible to prepare horses with as much certainty as we do. 'There must be always guesswork.”