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FRANCES CHIEF STEEPLECHASE COURSE. Tile Anteuil course, at Paris is entirely for jumping races, and on the particular day referred to by a writer in the Toronto tilohe. the attendant- ■ was al out 225.O0O j ersons. the majority of whom l aid only a franc 20 cents for admission to the beautiful park in the Bois de Boulogne. The betting was done through the inutuels. and aliout 2.«MK eerks were employed in the hundreds of IkjoUis. scattered in all parts of the park. Except in the military steeplechase, in which twenty-two rau. the fields were of moderate size. The obstacles were hedges, and though they looked formidable were fairly easy to uegotiate. All day 1 saw but one riderless horse, and he was in the officers ra.-e. The hedges; did not throw such burses as failed la clear them, but the jumping was very good all round. The weights carried ranged from 131 pounds in hurdle races to 89 kilograms, aboot 1S7 DOSWd*. iu the military steeplechase. The riders were aajMtly Frem-h. though not a few were tlvc sons of Boglish-men or Irishmen who had become French citizens Three of the six races were for horses tonlcd and I rain. .1 in the .-ountrv. The only foreign lived la start during the afternoon was I. r.- Woodlands Wild Aster, which was ridden by "M. |i Proprle- tuii-e." ami the son of Victor Wild won a good race, the inutuels paying 100 francs for tivc.
