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AMERICAN RACING RIVALRY IN FRANCE. Paris, France, December 21. During the turf season of 1112 there promises to be a pretty struggle for leadership among the Americans who have planned to race their horses in France. William K. Vanderbilt has been so tremendously successful with his big stable that he has been showing the way to all others by a wide margin. Americans who have recently taken establishments over here are determined to give their distinguished countryman a stiff battle for the leadership, and Frank Jay Gould and Joseph E. Widener are mentioned as Mr. Vanderbilts most likely rivals. Mr. Widener, when he first apicared on the French turf, figured only in the cross-country races, but for 1J12 he has decided to take to flat racing. Thomas Welsh, one of the foremost of American trainers, has been engaged to handle the Widener horses and many purchases have been made, including the supposedly ten best yearlings in France. These were secured for Mr. Widener by Eugene Leigh, another American turfman, who has long been Identified with the French turf. Some of these yearlings cost Mr. Widener 0,000 apiece. Frank J. Gould lias a stable of twenty-eight at Maisons Lallitte. His recent season was a tremendously good one, and he has also made purchases of famous matrons for his racing establishment.
