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TOM WELSH MEETS OLD FRIENDS ABROAD. New fork. Inly 11.- Trainer Tom welsh Is back Frost a trip abroad, where be saw considerable racing, met many o! l friends and had a line time gen erally, He Is looking in the best of health, baring entirely recovered, apparently, from the severe attack thai he experienced a year r more ago. htr. Welsh left For Europe abonl two months ago to visit the Daryea training establishment in Prance, with ■ rlew of looking the horses ever and possibly remaining In thai coantry. He had the privilege oi signing a.jpood contract, but considered the time too short. He reports that the Duryea horses sre a good lot, "I rfanted i great many breeding farms," said he. "and was mncn impressed with the racing in France." In England he was the gaesl of liis old friend, A. I. Joyaer, at BaDaton Lodge, Newmarket, and in Fianii be was under the hospitable m i ■ Eugene Leigh, who ti.i- ■ large establishment with a hundred horses In training. Many of the I.eigh-tral I horses ban been winners this Beason. "On all sides yon see Americans." ~:;id Mr. Welsh, "and the all appear to be doing well. Enoch Wishard has abonl fifteen horses close to Leighs place and has won f a races np to date. All are iookiBg well and prosperous." Kiel, aid Croker greeted the Americas trainer cheerily si the course and after much talk f other racing days in America, gave him an invitation to the race meeting at Cork, which Mr. Welsh was unable !• s i ept . "Its treat racing oret there," the trsiaer said :s he glanced ahoul tl serted stretches of Graven end. He ha- Dome horses still in training, among them Textile and Pa ton, and both are doing well.
