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GOVERNMENT AID FOR BREEDING Sooner or later there may arise a time when the House of Commons whichever party may happen for the moment to be in power will pay some atten ¬ tion to horses and will regard the matter from a nonparty standpoint England is the only big country whose government pays no subsidy in any shape or form to the breeding of horses 1 have before me a letter from Count Ivan Szapary which he prefaces by saying As 1 thin it will Interest yon I write you what 1 bought Count Ivan Szapary has been in England buying thoroughbred mares for the Hungarian Neuiier Fund This fund is a govern ¬ ment fund It derives its revenue from a percentage of the gate money taken at the race meetings in Hungary and from a percentage of the money which is paid out by the parimutucls The Neiiner Fund is a breeding society and the president of the breeding society is Count Tassilo Festctics The niares purchased by this fund are put up at auction every year in Hungary in October and are sold with ¬ out reserve London Sportsman
