. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. December 7, 1901] ©He gtveebev axxh gtpavt#mcax HIDALGO'S * special correspondence. New York, Nov. 24, 1901. I suppose you have already seen, in this week's Spirit, a letter from Mr. W. Allison, the genial "North Yorkshireman" of that paper, concerning the Lester ReifE matter. It explains the matter so much better than I am capable of doing that I do not care to go over the same ground further than to say it corrobo- rates about what I wrote you from London about sis weeks ago. I agree with Mr. Allison that there can be no jeal- ousy of Ameri
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. December 7, 1901] ©He gtveebev axxh gtpavt#mcax HIDALGO'S * special correspondence. New York, Nov. 24, 1901. I suppose you have already seen, in this week's Spirit, a letter from Mr. W. Allison, the genial "North Yorkshireman" of that paper, concerning the Lester ReifE matter. It explains the matter so much better than I am capable of doing that I do not care to go over the same ground further than to say it corrobo- rates about what I wrote you from London about sis weeks ago. I agree with Mr. Allison that there can be no jeal- ousy of Americans, so far as owners are concerned, in England. If a man thinks he has a good horse for any given race, and a horse gets his nose to the wire ahead of him, he does not much care whether that horse was bred in France, England, America or Aus- tralia—all he knows or cares about it is that his horse was beaten, and that is enough. But with regard to trainers and jockeys, I regard the case differently. When Mr Corrigan went over there he employed an English trainer, who was well recommended but performed so poorly that Mr. Cor-" rigan was obliged to take charge of his horses and handle them himself. Now, it is an open secret that Mr. Corrigan has been informed he need not apply for a renewal of his license as a trainer, and that a similar intimation has been given out to Mr. Enoch Wishard; as a natural consequence of which both those gentle- men are now returning to these shores. Certainly, a man who is competent to train should not be compelled to hire others to do it for him, more especially when there are no charges of fraud or chicanery against him, and I understand there are none against either of the gentlemen last above named. Now, how is it about jockeys? Certainly there was a jockeys' ring in existence there prior to the American invasion by Tod Sloan and those who sailed over there in his wake. When Wood and Loates were ruled off, what did they do? Did they seek
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