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JOCKEY SHAWS AUSTRIAN SUCCESS. The Austrian Prize, one of the richest .lassies of the Austro-IIungarian turf, was won October 21, by Ilerr Weinbergs Fabula, with W. Shaw In the saddle. nerr Egydies Fantome, M. Miles up, was second, and Count Degenfelds Flapdoodle was third. The race was for a purse of 0,000 and was over a distance of six and a half furlongs. The winner was trained by the American, George Walker, who Is again the biggest money winner iu the German speaking countries. Trainer Walker has just finished his fourth year on the continent and has headed the list of money winners each year. Walker is the only American trainer In either Germany or Austria-Hungary. The Austria Prize winner was Shaws last mount in Europe and winds up a most successful season for him. Shaw heads the list of winning riders In Germany, lie having ridden fifty-three winners out of 105 mounts, and, besides winning the big race yesterday, won the German Derby and St. Leger. When Shaw first came to Germauy the sporting writers criticized his style of hand riding, hut ,a great change came over them when Shaw began to win race after race, and now all the sporting papers are praising him and hoping that he will come back to Germany after his American contract expires. Shaw, accompanied by his wife; left Vienna, October 21, for Paris, where they will stay ten days and sail from Cherbourg, France, November 2, for America. Shaw will ride in America next season, probably for the Farrell-Sullivan-.Tohnson confederacy.
