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Show AMERICAN HORSES IN ENGLISH DERBY With the approach of the flat racing rac-ing season in Fngland near at hand and the two classic events the Two Thousand Guineas, to he decided April 30. and the Derby, which will j be run June 1 attracting the attention atten-tion of the English turf devotees, the quostion arises as to what foreign horses will distinguish themselves. Of the four clatsic winners last ye"r two were American bred. H. B. ! Durvea's Sweeper II, a son of Brcom-stock, Brcom-stock, won the Two Thousand Guineas. and August Belmont's Tracery captured the St. !eger. Tracery was born in America but h!s sire. Rock Sand and dam. Topis ry, I were ;-:ent to America onI when their 'racing careers in England had come to an end. so that "American bred" I is In bis case a term of doubtful sig-nif sig-nif leance. In this year's Derby, Duryea ha? left two of four nominated sflcke I Free and Sweeper II Belmont withdrew with-drew five of the six he nominated, leaving Vulcan, B son of Rock Sand I B Madden, another American, has eigbl sons of Ogden. sire of Iouis , WInans' Sir Martin, entered. None of the American .T-year-olds of which anything is yet known seems likelv to score at Epson. H P. Whitney Whit-ney s Harinonlcon. considered by experts ex-perts as the best, was rated as fourteen four-teen pounds behind the first of his age, but be Is not engaged In the Derby. It Is not known what H. P Whitney may do with Whisk Broom, like Sweeper II. a son of Broom-btlck. Broom-btlck. when he has finished his active career on the rocecnurce. He has ibown good form In England, if nol j quite as good as there seemed cause to anticipate. |