AMERICAN HORSES IN ENGLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 4092, 7 April 1876, Page 3

AMERICAN HORSES IN ENGLAND.

The entries for the stakes and handicaps SuvShlT?? 1 Tt inga “ En noS th lr of As , Cot> E P som . Chester, Goodwood, Newmarket, and Sandown Park closed on Sanuary 4. Mr Sanford’s American wnng of racers are engaged in the following *-^ re^ ness is entered in the Inter national Handicap, at Newmarket, and the Ascot Cup, two miles and a-half, run June 15. • f n !^ lo , r tkat Weakness and the Derby victor (Galopin) had both been entered for the Alexandra Plate at Ascot proves unfounded, tor Galopin has retired from the turf and gone to the stud; consequently, the great time aon of Lexington and Bayleaf wilfiSt have an opportunity of measuring speed with the winner of the “Blue Riband of the Turf » Preakness will meet with the best horses on the turf, for the wummg of that magnificent trophy is °i ject 4 of am bition with tarfoncn. Bay Final, the four-year-old brother to Preakness, is engaged in the two great Spring handicaps -tlm City and Subm-ban, one mile and a quarter, and the Great Metropolitan, two miles and a quarter, both run at the Epsom entered for the Alexandra Plate, at Sandown Park, run for on May 27. Mate by Austrian out of Mattie Gross, who so oft has borne the Sanford dark blue in triumph at Jerome Park, Saratoga, and other racecourses on this side of the Atlantic, is entered m the Newmarket Handicap, one mde and a-half, run for at the Craven Meetang in Apnl, and the City and Suburban Ep3om meeting. Eagle. the three-year-old coft by Baywood (brother to Preakness) out of Earring. S , 18 entered in the Prince of p kes » a . handicap, one mile, SJfe p?T m S Prmg meeting, and the kandlca P. three-quarters of a mile, at the Newmarket Craven. At present, Bay Eagle is suffering from an attack of influenza, but he has plenty of time before him to get in condition for his engagements. Egotist, a full brother to Bay Eagle, has been entered by Mr Sanford in the Ascot Eew Stakes, for two-year-olds, the distance run being five furlongs, 136 y * These are the only engagements at present of Mr Sanford’s horL m England, as he does not purpose to run his promising two-year-old Brown Prmce by Lexington out of Britannia 4th, *J, e fal ! of *he year. Although Mr banford spacing enterprise abroad is purely a personal, and in no sense a national one, yet American turfmen will watch with the deepest interest the career of his home-bred stable of thoroughbreds rejoicing in their triumphs, and sympathising in their reverses.—American paper.