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MOST VALUABLE RACE OF THE WORLD. Splendid Endowment and Easy Terms of Entry of the Grand Prix de Paris. I The splendid entry received for the Grand Prix de Paris of 1910 the nominations for which are published In the latest issue of the Racing Calendar must surely evoke an envious kind of feeling on the part of some of our race course executives, while It certainly serves to illustrate that this is one of the things they do better in France, says London Sport ing Life. The Grand Prix de Paris of 1910 will be of 0,000 value, added to a sweepstakes of 00 for each starter or 20 forfeit, with an additional ,000 given to the breeder of the winner if it is foaled in France. This year Northeasts owner re celved 2,020 when his colt beat Sauge Pourpree. With an additional ,000 for the breeder. 1908.sh,000 for the second, and 3.000 for the. third, the prize money that the eighteen starters raced for amounted to the huge sum of SS5.020. Of course, the 0,000 given by the city of Paris forms the basis of this i monster prize, helped by another 0,000 which is contributed by the five great railway companies of France. In these puritanical times 1 am afraid the day is far distant when any English government will have the courage to set aside a sum of 0,000 for such a purpose. Small wonder that the race which closed on the fifteenth of last month has secured the ! record entry of 500. The race is thrown open for 1 "entire colts or fillies, foaled in 1907. of every description and country." and the conditions arc so I easy that one is not surprised at the enormous en i try, or that out of this entry of 560 no fewer than 134 were made ,in London, while those received in I New York numbered 37, leaving 389 as the total o 1 nominations made in Paris. The easy conditions referred to allow the owners entering to retire upon payment of a minor forfeit of 0 only as late as Mav 2. in 1910. which is practically little more than two months prior to the race. Even then there is a further chance to escape the full liability. asthpse declaring by ten p. m. on the Wednesday preceding the race pay 5100 only, those remaining in pay 200 if the horse starts or a forfeit of 20 if not competing. Naturally we find entered all the best-bred yearlings in the world, and the list of nominators makes a splendid array.
