26o HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



are not to be encouraged, especially as they are 

 said to take kindly to ' roaring,' after the fashion 

 of Ormonde, without Ormonde's less objectionable 

 qualities. 



In respect of nomenclature, a marvellous condi- 

 tion of things has been established in these latter 

 days. We find breeders and owners, at their 

 wits' end, making plaintive appeals in the columns 

 of the daily papers (of sporting tendency) to the 

 public for help in elaborating appropriate appella- 

 tions for foals, and yearlings, and two-year-olds, 

 and thoroughbreds in general, and the public 

 responding by dozens almost as eagerly as in a 

 * missing word ' competition. A Sir Tatton 

 Sykes, with countless Sleight-of-hand mares, 

 and a Lord Glasgow, with unnamed ' wretches ' 

 running all over the country, would have a worse 

 time of it in these days than ever they had before. 

 There is quite a Parliamentary roar of ' Name ! 

 name !' when some unhappy owner is under the 

 impression that his horse is his own property, 

 and that he can do as he likes with it, even to 

 leaving it nameless, if he please. The increase 

 in the number of horses that are bred and run 

 in any given year, and especially the propagation 



