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FRENCH AND ENGLISH CONDITIONS COMPARE Tho contrast between tho conditions of the Grand Prize of Paris and the English class races for three-year-olds is really extraordinary, and yet withal not so extraordinary when all things are considered. Thus the added money to the chief of the French events is 12.000 sovereigns, of which, thanks in tho main to tho profits derived from the use of tho pari-mutuels. 10.0H is guaranteed bv the city of Paris. Tho balance is contributed by" the live great railway conpanies. Here we have no totalizator, and consequently no municipal grant, nor is there any contribution from the railways. If the winner be bred in France the breeder takes S00 sovereigns in addition. The final liability of owners is 40 sovereigns. The first forfeit of four sovereigns is declarable about two mouths liefore the race Is decided, and for twenty sovereigns horses can be re- . tired. It is not under such conditions surprising to find, that entries were made for the enormous number of 54". yearlings. The Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas are in marked contradistinction entirely self-supporting, the conditions in both instances being 100 sovereigns each, half forfeit, and the race last mentioned, restricted, of course, to lillies. None but the wealthy can patronize such races, but for all that, one hundred and twelve nominations were secured for the one and ninety for the other, than which one needs no more convincing proof of the healthy and Nourishing state of the turf. Loudon Sportsman.
