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CURTAILING RACING IN ARGENTINA. Tinier date of February 2.7 :i correspondent of London Sporting Life conveyed some disagreeable Information to English breeders when he said: The luag-threateaed restriction of racias in tbe Argentine to Sundays and bolidaya lias tome lo pass, in a letter I Bare just received from ;i friend in Buenos Ayres there la the following pa wage: "Week-da- racing; was stopped by the Proviaeial Ckaaahera from January I. Thau Sea Martin, Jusl outside the Federal capitals Jurisdiction, baa been obliged to urn- up its Saturda meetings. They tin not nice there on Sundays, because tbej are too neat Palermo to pete with the Jockey Club. Besides, the would n.. i cure to lose prestige bj drifting away from the parent Institution. At tbe present moment a MIL submitted liy tbe President and his ministers, la before the Central Chambers. This bill aims :n prohibiting racing oa work days in the Federal capital ibelf. The Jockey Clab dare ii"i • ippiH.se ill.- bill, on account of the huge drainage three-dayt a « ■ U racing has meant to Buenos Ayi -s during the last three years or so. As much ;is . omi has, "ii Hi. average, changed hands ui each meeting. As you caa are, this is trerj bad lndee-1, :uid goodness knows what would ensue were Buenos am. - made to bear the brunt «•! such a thing much longer. For tin* time being it means a blow i bloodstock iii general. As Argentina i;"..- ahead, however, I hope ih.it racing la provincial towns will become more Important, thus widening tin- mail,.! for bloodstock, and. consequently, freeing I.in-u.-Ayrea and Moate Vide., from the preaeal av i supply. The tenor of thai communication will not. I fear, ■take rerj agreeable reading for English and Irish breeders. When my correspondent speaks of the dis aatfous consequences resulting from so much mom chaaglag hands be is. presumably, tbinklag of the In par cent deducted from all nwaej thai passes through the oari-mutuel. The steady withdrawal if 1913.sh0,000 each racing day from the pockets of the fol towers of rac.iag awl, of course, be rnlpoaa in Iky lout: run line Wonders bow I hey manage lo lull •long iii Oerman.v. tor 1 understand thai there IjB per cent is deducted before the totalisator dirideml is declared. The cause que nee is that the hulk of in.- betting in Oermaay is on French races at start lag price. Bookmaking is not legal in Germany, but it is ei.-nsu . i practised, all the same. In France niih 8 per -ii i is deducted at the mntueis. so aaturally the •dividends" favor the backer andi wore than ihose payable over wiaaera la Germany.
