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NOTES OF THE TURF ABROAD. The popular owner George Edwardeo, who has been very far from well for iuile a Ions time, is bow "convaleaeing* ai Biarritz. The stallion Louvlers, the property of Walter Raphael, will stand ibis -ason al chain Farm. Kcntfonl. Newmarket, instead ..f ai the Egerton Stud. Silver Berry and the American Illy Wicktona have recently been sent by Goby, the Epsom trainer, t.. Sweden, i comparatively new country for the export of racing stock. Sam Darling, the Beckhampton trainer, left Mar! borough December 27 for a voyage to West Africa, where hi will pay a visit to his son and daughter, who are In residence there, lie will return bum, early In March. Markets at I-olkstone meeting recently were more I ban sensitive. A well-known and popular bookmaker laid a bit of 8 to 1 a gains I Tnhbei for the Beginners Hurdle Race, and sixty aeronds later .". to 2 was taken. Hail there boon S.~.0O to go on ■iite:- ibis in- would have been an odds-on chance. The death of .lames Dover, who trained for a few years a! Il-le.v. look place December 10. Dover was a I the Jam. s Dover who prepared Lord Lyon. Achievement ami other j:ii"m| horses in bis day. ami ..n bis death the business of llsH-y was continued by tin- man win, recently died. For a while he had a tolei-abl. long --triiis to look after, but no notable success was associated with tie- stable under li-chai _. . A welter flat race was the main attraction i.t Hursl Park December Ml. iiilics voted the race to Dalmatian a-- soon as the entries appeared on the ground thai bo outclassed the others. So lie went to I he post a! !i to 4 on. bin refused to try in the heavy s ins- ami was not placed. Lady Madcap winning by a bead from the other American horse that was in ili.- race, ibis being the coll Toiler, a 30 to I outsider. Dalmatian has certainly been a rostlj disappointment to Louis Wtnaas. The stallions in Germany lo run inio five figures wiib their produce during the past season are only live in number. Hannibal be. ids the list, with gl24.93Ti to bis credit. And the others an- Galtee More. 08,025: Aid Patrick. I78J210; St. Maelou. 04,240, and Saphir. 1913.sh1.01-".. Of the above, three are horses foaled in England, and the other two n.i live bred. The sire which comes out best in RoU- maali during 1012 is Solon, by Si. Dannies— Sagease, with 1. 000. • Dcntscher Sport" publishes tin announcement of the discovery in Germany of an Infallible method of ascertaining if a mare i- in foal or not. By means ..I analysis oi merely one cubic centimetre of the blood of a mare ii is stated that as early as the third or roarth week after covering ibis has been definitely ascertained by Hen Emll Abderhaldan, who has been experimenting from 1906. Hue slat,-nielli is that the analysis is divided into two parts, the one physical optical and the other chemical. There ai.- numerous uria.s now iii training in the Argentine, an.! ..ne of them. Soldandla, bj Pipper mint — Suzanne, won the Premlo Vendetta Ave and a half furlongs, salue *4.inhi on December I. heal ing si,ein others. Rather curiously, the Joefce; -..I i be first ami Seconal bear names which were familiar enough in England some ten m twelve years ago. C. Alvarei riding the winnei and I. Torterolo the runner-np. Cnravana II., which v*a-beaieu by a length and a ball.
