i it> The American Thoroughbred 



NAME. SIRE. AMOUNT WON. 



Highball Ben Strome* $33,990.00 



English Lad Requital . . .' 27,825,00 



Flyback Requital 26.335.00 



Song and Wine Goldfinch* 24,105.00 



De Reske Lamplighter 26,820.00 



Hermis Hermence* 31,725.00 



Dainty Golden Garter* 20,795.00 



Bryn Mawr Atheling* 20,020.00. 



* Bred in England. 



With nine horses that have won $40,000 and upwards in a single season, and 

 eight more that have won over $20,000, the season of 1904 can safely be set down as 

 the best in the history of the American turf. To make it so hereafter, all owners, 

 rich and poor alike, must be held accountable for the running of their horses ; and 

 the discipline of each track should be made equal in its bearing by the magisterial 

 officers selected for the enforcement thereof. The great Admiral Rous once declared 

 that "All men are equal on the turf or under it," an axiom of which judges aind 

 stewards should never lose sight. Justice should be tempered with mercy wherever 

 the attendant circumstances will permit; and the discipline of the track should never 

 be so rigid as to border upon the tyrannical. In fact, the motto of all judges, when 

 entering upon their official duties should be, "the greatest good to the greatest num- 

 ber." If they will only remember this, racing will prosper and continue to prosper. 

 But the rights of the betters must be protected at all hazards. As long ias book- 

 makers have to pay $20 per race for the privilege of booking, just so long will they 

 have a "pull" on the judge's stand. Once cut it down to the rates paid in England 

 and Australia, which is five pounds per quarter, and the stewards will take no notice 

 of them or their claims. 



The two latest importations of any note are Marius II and Solitaire, two horses 

 brought over by Mr. H. Eugene Leigh, of Kentucky, who sold them to Mr. Adolph 

 B. Spreckels, of San Francisco, shortly after landing. These horses were both good 

 performers and superb individuals, imparting their great quality to their progeny to 

 such an extent that twenty head of their get sold in New York in September for 

 $26.000, an average of $1,300 each. Two of the get of Solitaire sold for $5,000 each, 

 which was a tremendous price, to my idea. They were the get of a horse which, how- 

 ever good he may have been on the turf, was wholly untried as a sire. The logical 

 inference is, therefore, that they sold on their looks and on their breeding, which was not 

 to be surpassed on either side. After ten years wasted on a lot of worthless Australian 

 sires that had "left their country for their country's good,' Mr. Spreckles is now on 

 the high road to success. 



