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Show BELMONT ONLY HIGH WINNER ON TURF London. Dec. 11.- With the exception excep-tion of August Belmont. American owners of thoroughbreds have Tared poorly on the English turf this season. sea-son. Helmont Is the only American owner of note who has figured high In the. winning ranks, and this has been largoly due to the performances ot his wonderful four-year-old Tracery, Trac-ery, which has won two of the rich-et rich-et Htakes on the British turf. Harry Payne Whitney, who has bad one of the largest strings in training at Newmarket, has met with comparatively com-paratively little success in stakes and purses Misfortune hit the Whitney stable when Meeting House, the beet - of the Whitney three-year-olds, broke a blood vessel. Meeting Houe is 1 ig, limber colt with great depth ot chest Ho Is by Voter Noonday, and with good luck would have been a credit to tbe late James R. Kc nc. who bred him. The other prominent Arm-rlc -ans. In eluding Herman B. Duryea illiain Waldorf Ator. W K andorlult Charles Carroll. Claronce Mackay, James B Haggln and Richard Cmk it have "ot won enough stake money 'rnong them even to make a poor owner envious When Croker's horse, Silver Roi. finished first In the Mary borough Handicap at the Curragh, Ireland's most famous race course, the former Tammany rhleftan could not collect the stake nor his bts be cause the horse was promptly ob Jected to as not qualified to run In that race Not only was the objec tlon sustained, but the stewards severely se-verely reprimanded Russell Croker's agent for entering and starting the the horse. |