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GETTING READY FOR PARIS RACING. Auieiiil will re-opea its gates on Sunday. Ifebni ary Hi. and the hist flat race Meeting of the senses will take |ilac- at St. Cloud on Friday. March 14. On the following day operations will be started at Unisons I.afntie. and the names of the horses iu the -Handicap optional" are already published. This is a race fur three-year-olds thai have been placed first or second la-i year, selling races excepted. The distance is a mile, and it is always an inter-e-tihg event. About 1 41 horses ale eligible, and those that accept have to pay 0 to run. the miilr forfeit being 0. The committee- of the Soeiele dEncoiiragem.iii have just been -#ttleil for the season. The steward-, whose iltitics ,ni- similar to those of the stew aids of the Jockey tloh In England, will lie the Marquis |, Oana.v. the unite de Quiacey. and Baron Gourgaud. the deputy stewards being the Cmtr de TSerteux. the Coaste P. de Saint Phalle. and the lonite Le Marois. Other niembers who will act on special conunittees are- m. Henry Dehuaane, Count Hallez laparcil. . Connl Iaul de Pourtale-. Viscounl dHarcourt, M. J. de Biemond. and IL J. Prat. The boaomrj bk sabers of the Societe dEn-euursgemeul arc ifie King of England, the Duke of Portland. lord Durham. M. Leu| ohl de Rothschild. Prince Kinsky. Count lehndorff. Count Batthynny. ami M. Perrj BetuHmt. The prexldenl of the socletj i- Prince Augtmte dArenberg, and there are thirtj tic mesnhen, d
