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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 733, 24 March 1904, Page 8

In Hungarian studs a number of wellbred English stallions are doing dui at low fees. Janissary (sire of the Derby winner Jeddah) is about the most expensive, his fee being 42 guineas, but only Qi guineas each are asked for the services of The Rush, Piety, and Orwell, the latter being a brother in blood to Ormonde. Royal Lancer is the latest English addition to blood stock in Hungary, and he is at the Roya' Stud, Kisber, where his services will be available to Hungarian owners at i guineas, and foreign owners at 25 guineas.

In America in a discussion as to who was the champion three-year-old colt of that country last year, it was agreed that Dick Welles, the Western crack, was entitled to the palm because he started in fourteen races, was beaten once, and made a new world’s record for a mile, 1.37 2-5. He did not meet Africander, Irish Lad, and Golden Maxim, consequently Eastern turfmen are not willing to concede the superiority of the son of King Eric. He won eight times in fifteen starts, was second three times, third once, and unplaced three times, carrying all kinds of weight and winning the Realisation at a mile and five furlongs and the Saratoga Cup at a mile and three-quarters. Irish Lad ran six times, winning three races and finishing second in each of the others. Savable defeated McChesnev, but the race was rather a fluke. There were 230 three-year-olds Who won lasi year, twenty-three of them carturing ten or more races. Irish Lad, Flying Ship, Virgin Soil, Capt. Buckle, and Reliable were never outside of the money.