. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, May 27, 1916.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN. AN ENGLISHMAN'S VIEWS. A highly-interested and delightfully interesting vis- itor to'the races at Lexington this spring has been Edward Moorhouse, ot London. Mr. Moorhouse is a director ot the British Bloodstock Agency ot Lon- don editor of the Bloodstock Breeders' Review, was for many years Special Commissioner of The Sport- ing Life and before that sporting editor of the Pall Mall Gazette; is the author of "The History and Romance of the Derby," and is a Fellow of the Insti- tute of Journalists. He
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, May 27, 1916.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN. AN ENGLISHMAN'S VIEWS. A highly-interested and delightfully interesting vis- itor to'the races at Lexington this spring has been Edward Moorhouse, ot London. Mr. Moorhouse is a director ot the British Bloodstock Agency ot Lon- don editor of the Bloodstock Breeders' Review, was for many years Special Commissioner of The Sport- ing Life and before that sporting editor of the Pall Mall Gazette; is the author of "The History and Romance of the Derby," and is a Fellow of the Insti- tute of Journalists. He has been going about among the breeding farms and has been a guest o£ the Kentucky Association at the races. Mr. Moorhouse was interrogated as to the chief purpose of his visit to this country and this inquiry was succeeded by others, until the following interview was produced: "It is to meet the leading men associated with blood-stock (thoroughbred horses), to study their aims and the means by which they are striving to attain the end they have in view, that I have come to the United States and to Kentucky," said he. "I have for many years followed with keen interest racing and breeding developments in this country, but it is one thing merely to read about such matters and quite another to get into personal contact with them and, more especially, with the men who have fashioned and are still fashioning the history of the thoroughbred in this truly wonderful country. I am here as a studentâa learner. I realize that many good and some great horses have been bred and raced in the United States, and I am convinced that what your breeders of the past have done can be equaled and probably surpassed by the breeders of the present day. "As you know, we in England are passing through a trving period. Owing to the war, racing has been cut "down to such an extent that the breeding of bloodstock has become a precarious industry. Let me quote one or two facts
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