THE SUPREMACY OF THE TURF IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1128, 23 November 1911, Page 5

THE SUPREMACY OF THE TURF IN ENGLAND.

Some interesting sidelights were thrown on the racing game as conducted in the Old Country by Isaac Earnshaw, one of the best-knbwn and most successful trainers in Australasia, who has just returned to Sydney after eight months spent in England. He related his impressions on the English turf to the “Sydney Mail,” from Whic we cull some items. He sayi:— , \ h a ing in Erigland is, without doubt’ a rich man’s game, After visitirig several of the great studs Earnshaw said he was left in wonder at the lavish way in which everything is conducted, arid the immense values nut upon the gems. of the harems. Lord Rosebery breeds his pwn racehorse, and though he is a large winner annually the intake from the turf possibly does not represent half the cost of the upkeep of his breeding and training establishments. THE GREAT CARBINE. The Duke of Portland’s stud, Web heck, is considered one of the show places in England. Earnshaw made a dutiful pilgrimage to Welbeck to see Carbine, who, he says, looks wonder-

fully well for his age, and, except having dipped a trifle in the back, shows u.e of his 2 6 years. William the Thirds a home-bred son of the great St. Simon, who for so long ruled at w elbeck, is not a heavy horse, but one of great quality, and is doing well, as a sire of stayers. In Ireland Earnshaw saw Carbine’s greatest - son, Spearmint, a magnificent dark bay norse —bigger than his sire, and with more quality—who throws unmistakably to his Minting dam. In the same stud is Fugelman, a grand horse by Persimmon, and a horse valued at between six and seven thousand guineas in the Old Country. Earnshaw had an invitation to' see Colonel Hall Walker’s crack stud, where Prince Palatine and other classic winners were bred, but the strike in London recalled him to arrange about the hipment of some horses he had purlased.