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ETHICS OF GRAFT

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THE BREEDING OF RACEHORSES

QUEER AND UNCERTAIN BUSINESS

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"NO RULE OF THUMB"

The revelations of graft which have been disclosed at the Senate Committee inquiry in Washington Into the international armaments trade may be startling to the TE owner of the winner of aș Australian, the first winner in general public.

classic horse race stands lo 1853 of the coveted triple crown They can hardly have surprised benefit by far more than the stakes-Derby, St. Leger and Two Thou the venerable Senators or the per- or the profit on his bet-if he has sand Guinea-and of the Ascot manent officials of the American made one. There will be the Gold Cup. This line, which at one State Department..

added value of his horse at time showed signs of dying out, Bribing officials is not a mono- the stud. Locking further back was recently revived by Hurry poly of the munition firms. There for the owner of the sire of the On, the sire of three post-war is not a single large commercial winner there may be more money. Derby winners: Coronach, Cap-

tain firm or finance house doing Interna-His price may rise.

Cuttle and Call Boy. Now tional business which has not at In an otherwise undistinguish-the line again shows signs of de- one time or other had to compound ed racing season one point that cay. Call Boy cannot get foals [with the evil or to suffer the conse- has excited the amateurs of the and Captain Cuttle went abroad.

quences of Its own integrity.

The Herod line came once more sport to such an extent that even!

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The number of Governments Jaymen ask questions about it is into prominence with the appear- whose officials cannot be "got at" the remarkable success of one ance of the Tetrarch, a spotted can be counted on the fingers of particular stallion-Blandford. He grey called "the rocking-horse." fone hand.

is the sire of Windsor Lad, the Phenomenal speed over short dis In the case of the others the Derby winner, of Campanula,, the tances is the main characteristic chief difficulty consists in deciding 1000 guineas winner, of Bahram, of the Herod line to-day.

Most of the rest are descended whether the fellow who takes the possibly the best two-year-old, of graft can deliver the goods.

from Eclipse via Isonomy, Isin-

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£47,926 in stakes.

not

The paradoxes of breeding are

year

It is & queer uncertain. busi-glass and Swynford, ness, the breeding of racehorses.

after The great horse is so often not the innumerable. Year The graft-taking bureaueranies great sire. Most of us can remem-jenormous Bums are bid in the of the world can be divided into ber that grand animal, Coronach Newmarket and Doncaster sale well-defined areas,

They include the only home of post-war days rings for yearlings bred from the the South American Republics and from whose tail people tried to bluest blood, who never win a mest of the countries of Central pluck hairs as they passed him in race, while others purchased for a and Southern Europe,

the paddock. Coronach has few hundred guineas go on to win These are the best takers or been successful at the stud, and fame for themselves and a fortune graft.

when we tell our children what a for their owners.

It is said that Chevalier Ginis- The beat purveyors of graft are{great horse he was they will stare the French. Their firms give less biankly, even if they are interest-trelli, the proud owner of and obtain better results thaned in racing. Yet Blandford, who Signorina, a mare with a brilliant on the racecourse, พย8 The China Mail History perhaps gives us a clue those of any other country.

dominates the now

breeding record if we note that every great war

British firms are bad grafters or world, was not a great racehorse himself leading her one day to be has been followed by half a cen-refuse to graft at all. They have He was hard to train and only had mated with the fashionable French

There is Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1934. tury of disturbance.

undoubtedly lost business." three races in his lifetime. Good aire of the time. As they passed first of all the general shock of

another stallion In many cases of a tender for a judges gathered round to admire the paddocks being awakened out of a peace foreign Government contract or a him, but nobody snatched at his neighed, and the mare pricked her ful routine that may have been bid for a foreign loan the local tail. He started at a low fee; ears. "It is a love match" exclaim- The Double Tenth

quite tolerable, but always has a British official representative has good judges, especially the Aga ed the entranced owner-and mare loose One of the advantages of liv.certain amount of injustices andi Chinese history it-

had to report that the failure has Khan, saw that he was bringing in turned his beautiful

with the unknown horse. His been due solely to the unwilling-ja strain of blood which had been ling in a cosmopolitan city is that self records many such periods,

|friends laughed at the chevalier, from ness of the British firm to supply missing

the people get the advantage of all when the restraints fell away the necessary palm oil.

English

but he held his peace, and a few thhoroughbred for some genera- the special holidays that are ob and "the chance to do ill-deeds. of the sections made ill-deeds done." In Rome served by any

tions. Apart from that his early years later, in 1908, the laugh was comprised in the population. the agitation of the Gracchi led AT THE SEAT OF CUSTOM fame was mainly due to the fact on them, for the produce of the "love match," a filly called Signorinetta, that his name was the same 05 There is no reason to doubt that to Marius and Sulla, to Caesar it is an advantage in spite of the and Pompey, Augustus and Anly to be concealed with considerable borough. Giving Blandford year-

Graft in high places has general-that of the present Duke of Mari- came to England and won the Derby at:100 to 'and the Oaks occasional grumble of an employ tony, tearing the very vitals of adroliness. Sometimes, however, it lings comic names was, and still is,

two days Inter.

That story, true or not, might be borne in mind by every bidder,

Personal Pars

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er here and there.

grievances.

the State because there seemed

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The most flagrant case recently

a popular sport.

of mud but he made the horse uut afternoon, at St. John's Cathedral.

If only everybody would agree, to be a chance for the ambitious is quite open.

Coronach's Ancestors and what is more important to seize the topmost place. Na- was in a Mediterranean resort now

What is the history of the long honestly observe the agreement. polcon's downfall led to a long

lines that end up in Coronach, the not to take advantage of a rival period of unrest which only much favoured by the English.

The local cigars and cigarettes great racehorse and moderate sire, who closes for the day, the work reached its culmination in 1848,

Lady Elizabeth Davis left Mul- of the world could be done in a and took another ten years to are bad, and the average English- and Blandford, the

great sire He ap-land

grave Castle, Whitby, on, October 6, moderate racehorse? They far smaller number of days than settle down. There is, in fact, at man brings his own.

(to join her husband, Lieutenant- are devoted to it at present least this comfort to be drawn Proaches the seat of Custom with are all descended from three

Commander W. W. Davis, RN., And although there is a strong from such a survey, that if men his cigarette tins and cigar boxes hores.

H.MS. Kent, on the China Station. tendency in Hong Kong to "in the lump" are fools, they at open

They were Arab and Turkish The official looks at them non-horses and Barbary steeds. The turn all holidays into one pat- any rate were no wiser in the

chalantly, picks up a handful of Arabs have always been

The christening of Mr. and airs. great tern, that can only be due to the past. fact that there is nothing else to How many people sit down into a box beneath his desk, and a proverb, "Allah made man out Mary Kemble, took place yesterday T. P. K. Kemble's two-and-a-half. cigarr and cigarettes, drops them lovers of the horse, and they have month old daughter, Shirley Derria do. A Tea Party Reception at to-day to make a really thought- amiles. + the Chamber of Commerce. a ful study of Sun Yat Sen's philo- concert at the Diocesan Boys' sophy? It is very comprehen- School these are the only fixtures sive, and has so many facets that grateful, gathers up his smokes and specially connected with the at least some might have been pages on. commemoration of the Indepen-expected to have been generally dence Declaration of the Chinese accepted within thirty years Republic. For the great majorThe study is not encouraging. ity there will be the usual fea- Full as his writings are of hu- tures of Football and Races manist sympathy, he was dealing met one of her former flames. The Darley Arabian was bought What have all these amuse with complexities which would Deciding to slight him, she asked, in Aleppo for a Mr. Darley, of Commodora Frank Elliott and ments to do with the idealisms not easily yield to a sudden wave when introduced to him "Dld, York, by his brother, who was Mrs. Elliatt are leaving The Bun and optimisms of the national of enthusiasm. He became you say your name was Hare?" merchant in the East; he was the galow, The Peak, and as from. to- event of twenty-three years ago? aware of this himself, and "No," he snapped, "had it been ancestor of Eclipse and the pro-day will take up residence aboard

It is as well now and then to made what is a fatal mistake you'd probably have succeeded in genitor of nearly all the best race HM.S. Tamar. give a thought to what we are for a prophet, he introduced dis, snaring me long ago.

horses of to-day. The Byerley commemorating, more especially cordant doctrines of a period of

Turk was Captain Byerley's

The Englishman, astonished but of the wind." All thoroughbreds

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in the Stud Book can trace their Mr. Edward Chadwick-Kew, son pedigrees back in direct male line of Dr. Chadwick-Kew, sailed from to one of the three great Eastern Shanghai last week for England to roots: the Darley Arabian, the be articled in November next to the Byerley Turk, or the Godolphin firm of A. T. Chenhalls and Co, She was a flirt, and at a dance Barb.

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LOCAL NEWS: BREVITIES

to determine how far a "New transition during which the pure Generally speaking, B Com-charger in Ireland during the time! Deal" has been successful, and if ly ideal principles should be in munist is a peram who has given of William of Orange, and from the success has been only partial, abeyance. A prophet who hedges up hope of becoming a capitalist. him was descended Herod. The what were the hindrances that is admitting defeat on the

Godolphin Bark, who is reputed to Two cases of diphtheria and one. prevented complete realisation? threshold of the race. His op-i A teacher sat her pupils to write a have drawn a cart in the streets case of meningitis were reported in Open any newspaper to-day and ponents will seize upon the con- short essay on "Language," and one Paris, was eventually purchased the Colony during the 24 hours read the news, it is very sad cessions, and quote his authority. Good language is what we use at

boy wrote the following:--

by Lord Godolphin and became the fended October 8. reading for the idealists.

Re-And who is to decide when the home and at school, but among our paternal grandsire, of Matchem. bellion in Spain; riot in Cuba. period of transition is to end? selves we generally use bad language." War in the Gran Chaco, strikes It would be quite possible for in the U.S.A., suppressed civil many war lords to quote the war in Austria, Stavlaky scan-great leader "to their purpose," "Haven't I seen you before?" stables with what came to be week ended October 8. During the dals in France; there is nothing and without any quotation vitaljasked the judge.

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Charles II. had some years be- Three cases of diphtheria and fore sent hle Master of the Horse fone case" of typhoid fever were re- to the East and stocked the Palace ported in the Colony during the

known as the Royal Mares. Their same period one person died from in the Western world to lead us differences as to times and sea- "Maybe," replied the tailor. "So influence on the early evolution of diphtheria and 63 from tuberculosis. to suppose that the government sons might engender endless many men owe me money I can't the thoroughbred must have been. of large

masses of men is an strife. But that is not to say remember their, faces,”

considerable, but it was Eclipse, easy task. In the East we find that he worked in vain. It is

Herod and Matchem who definite- suspicion and preparation for merely to note that he made. "Don't you think that was a ly established the three great war in Japan; in China civil war the common miscalculation of finished address?"

lines of bloodstock. more or less endemic, with new prophets about the time that it “Yes. I do," was the reply, "but levies being called up, such as would take to bring his new at one time I thought it never has caused the men of military Heaven down to Earth Pro- would be." age to fly from Wuchow, Canton phets are not patient, a prechp

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It was, in the words of his owner, a case of "Eclipse firat and the rest nowhere, as this famous horae was never beaten in any of his races, and while at the stud aired over 300 winners. His skele

8 majority of Provinces simply and say nothing. The Empire They are not likely to allow ton is still preserved at the Royal ignoring the claims of the cen-was a very easy going affair, the themselves to be overlooked College of Veterinary Surgeons. tral administration.

village elders and the heads, of again! Nonetheless, when the For many generations Herod and

Is there any one cause for families had a great deal of prophet has inserted his yeast Matcham challenged his supre these outbreaks and restlessness? jurisdiction left to them. On into the dough, it does go on macy as a sire, but eventually the It would be absurd to supposa such a foundation a conserva-working. Take a long enough pre-eminence of Eclipse over his that the fault has to be laid attive republic with a Senate of vists and it will most likely be rivals was established by the the door of this or that indivi-Provincial Governors might have felt that in years to come the emergence of the St. Simon, and dual, or that there has been been built if only there had Double Tenth will see a more cyllene stock sudden drop in the standard or been no other ambitious men and more important celebration. ability applied to public affairs with programmes of their own! The yeast will continue to work Matchem's descendants was

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