Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1917 — FEARS FOR YEARLINGS [ARTICLE]

FEARS FOR YEARLINGS

Englishmen Are Concerned at Future of Thoroughbred. Purchase of Blooded Stock by Americans Is Making Britons Sit Up i** and Take Notice-—Anti-gamblers Are Blamed.

Because of the really great number of yearlings which have been purchased by Americans, on in the interest of sportsmen on this side of the big pond, at Newmarket, Englishmen who are concerned with the future of the thoroughbred. in the tight little isle lament the outgoing to this country of so many '-youngsters and comment to the end that If the ban on racing there.'continues throughout the next year, which will Warrant breeders parting with their foals, they will soon begin to suffer from serious depletion of their blood -stock, just as happened here because of the antiracing craze. It is pointed out in England by those w’ho are concerned to take a proper viewpoint of the proposition that it does not take long to clear a country out of blood stock once the rot eats in, as has been proved here. It is feared that if there is no encouraging pronouncement for the raising of the ban on racing within the next month or so many of the best brood-mares will be sold to sportsmen here, who are conceded to have taken advantage of a golden opportunity to replenish their studs with horses of undoubted great ancestry.

It is stated that it is indeed a scandal that the British thoroughbred, which Is England’s one genuine monopoly, should be handicapped, as it has been by Walter Dunciman, as by the action of the government in stopping legitfinate racing he has made himself the official promotor of “bush racing,” Which can be of no ‘good to the horse breeding industry. Antigamblers are stated to have been at the bottom of the movement which has been such a source of hardship to breeders and many who made their living through the sport. The majority of the breeders in England have either been discouraged or ruined by the legislation, which it is charged was brought about by ahti- . gnTnhJora. ■■ . T—.