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PRESTIGES REGRETTABLE BREAKDOWN. Horsemen In France regret much the breaking down of William K. Vanderbllts unbeaten three-year-old colt Prestige. The trouble was in one ot the fetlock Joints. Prestige won seven races as a two-year-old and nine this year, and in all won more than 0,500 for his owner. This Is a considerable sum for the French turf. Prestige probably would have won more this season hut for the fact that Mr. Vnnderbllt thought so little of him that he did not enter him early for any of the big three-year-old events nt Longehamps or Chautllly. "Not only was Prestige unbeaten," says tho Loudon Field, "hut none of his opponents could ever extend him, and he was In" most of his races giving away a good deal of weight. How good a horso he was was not known, even to his trainer, who admitted that he could give twenty-one pounds to his stable companion Maintcnon, and yet the latter was good enough to win the French Derby and other valuable races. It Is all the more to be regretted that Prestige should have broken down when lie did, because all the sporting world in France was looking forward to a meeting between him and Pretty Polly In the Prix du Prisident do la Republi-que at Mnisons-Latiitte on July 15. This would have been a race of great interest, for there are no penalties or allowances, and Pretty Polly would have been giving him fourteen pounds for the two years between them. The colt would have had as many hackers as the marc, among French sportsmen, at all events, but this is all over now." Strange to say, disaster came to him In a race which was so much a walk-over for him that the Investments nt the Parl-Muttiel had to be returned to the public. This was at Longehamps, in the Prix Seymour, on the Thursday preceding the Grand" Prix. It was against the advice of Ids -trainer that lie was then sent out to oppose Japonais, for the ground was- very hard, hut his owner was persuaded , to give the public, and tin; many visitor then in Paris a sight of his colt, and he was sent to. the post. Although he won in a. canter. It was found that he had jarred himself seriously, and other complications ensued, .which have made it necessary to declare forfeit for all his engagements. The colt is not likely to be seen again on a race course, and lie will retire to the stud with the glory of an unbroken record.
