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RACING IN FOREIGN LANDS. Statistics from Austria and Hungary show that 1,203 horses have run during the past scasou on the different race courses in the two kingdoms. That number is thus made up: 331 two-year-olds, 333 three-year-olds, 252 four-year-olds, 12S five-year-olds, CO six-year-olds, and 152 aged horses. These figures include thoroughbreds and half-breds, and these runners were able to claim 501 victories, and 302 either place-money or works of art, while 30S went empty away with no further satisfaction than that conveyed by carrying the colors of an owner. Tins most industrious of the lot was Javorinka, who presented herself as the daughter of Matchbox, and took part iu no fewer than twenty-seven races, of which as a three-year-old she won a couple, bringing iu some 1911.sh,500 to her stable. A commission composed of bleeders and owners is being formed in the two kingdoms of Austria and Hungary for visiting France, and more esiecially the sales at the end of the year, for the purchase of some of the breeding material which is offered for the auction in the sales at this season. Russia is looking up as a racing center, for, according to the "Sport Welt." M. Mantacheff, who was seen for the first time at the Deauville sales and bought several yearlings, has been a purchaser at Newmarket. His compatriots. Messrs. E. and M. Lazareff, have shown him a good example, for, including the 1,004 sovs. they have received as breeders premiums, they stand credited on the list of winning owners with 108,030. or nearly the same amount as that claimed by Mr. J. B. Joel in England, and more than credited either to Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt in France or to the Royal Graditz Stud in Germany. Racing in Holland is petering out in consequence of the prohibition of betting and turf speculation. The different training quarters, which could hav been counted on less thau five fingers, will soon be desolate. Possibly the sons of those peasant fanners who came down to race in Paris at the invitation of the Prince of Orange when he had a racing stable at Paris and showed how they could trot their Friesland steeds with nothing but a sheepskin in lieu of saddle and without stirrups, in rare good time, will be forbidden to hold up their fingers when competing at home as a challenge in "guldens" to their opponents. Holland possesses five important racing societies, but the program when published will show a remarkable shrinkage in the number ot meetings and the amount of added money. Italy has sustained a loss through the death of Genial, a son of Callistrate and Gouvernante. bred at the famous .Tardy Stud. He showed good form as a two, three, and four-year-old, but met theu with an accident, which necessitated his removal from the training stable. His sire, with whom ho had many points in common, was built on a smaller scale, but gave to his offspring, with all the qualities of the Dollar strain, a most pleasing and harmonious exterior. The many qualities Genial displayed on the race course and iu the stud induced Count Canevaro to buy him for the account of the Italian Government. He had won over 5,000 in stakes, but his appearance and action were perhaps equal recommendations to procure him a place at the Government Stud of Pisa, close to the Italian Newmarket. He shaped very well as a sire, and though but moderate patronage was bestowed on him by breeders who prefer a more mature sire he figures on the list of winning sires with some 0,000, and is considerably regretted by those who have looked over his produce.
