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FRENCH BREEDING SYNDICATE. "The French breeders have formed a kind of Mutual Aid Syndicate, the members of which have undertaken to give the services of their stallions free to their fellow members," writes the French correspondent of the London Sporting Life. "By this interchange of courtesies breeders expenses will be greatly reduced. Looking at matters all round, breeders in France are in a much better position than their brethren in England, for not only are fees lower here than on the continental side of the Channel, but there is also a better market for thoroughbred stock.- The government stallions are available for approved mares at a fee of less than 5, including the groom, and now there will be about sixty stallions for which nothing will be charged at all to members of the Syndicate des Eleveurs de Chevaux de pur sang en France. These stallions are by no means second classers. For instance, M. Edmond Blanc has put in Flying Fox, M. Michel Ephrussi Brio by Galopin out of Briar Root, M. Camille Blanc Le Hardy the sire of Terburg and Retz the French Derby winner of 1902 ; M. F. de Saint-.Tayone Amer Picon, a wonderful stayer; the Comte Le Marols, Chalet, the sire of Maximum and of Monsieur Perichon; M. Maurice Ephrussi, Codoiiian, a horse well known in England, that ran second to Berrill for the Cambridgeshire in 1900, and afterwards won the Prix du Conseil Municipal in Paris; M. A. A,leille, Cliampaubert; M. E. Vell-Picard, Childwlck who, though growing, in years, still gets good winners; M. de Alary, Delaunay, another English importation; the Comte II. de Pourtales, Dolma Baghtche a Grand Prix winner of 1S94; Comte Lair, Earwig; Baron de Rothschild, Le Roi Solell; Baron E. de Rothschild, Eryx; M. J. de Bremond, Gardefcu; M. A. Pierron, Rising Glass; Vicomte dHarcourt, Maximum and Gulliver; Comte de Lastours, Le Var; M. Marcel Henry-Lepaute, Lorlot; the Comtesse P. Le Marois, Pastisson the Australian horse that has sired some good two-year-olds; the Due de Noallles, Ravens-bury, and the Coiiite de Nicolay, Rabelais and Velasquez by Fricandcau, who must iiot be confounded with the English Velasquez. It will be seen what a great advantage this pooling Of stallions will give the French breeders, who will be able to select the most suitable stallions for their mares without any cost whatever."
