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LEADER OF GERMAN TURF IS DEAD. flic Foremost figure lor many year- in 0 Bissau racing ami breeding passed awaj April 38, when Count George Lehudoi 11 died tit his home in Berlin at tin- advanced age of Bfi years. Concerning some features iu the career of litis distinguished man " igilant" said in London Sportsman of Mav 6: "Count Jeorge Lehndorff. the Grand old Man of the German turf, was almost as well-known at Newmarket and at Chantilly as he was in his own country. As a buyer of thoroughbreds the Count, in his position of director of the iraditz Stud and Master of the Hone, had the purse of the German Government at his command, and for something approaching hall a century he seldom missed coming over here for tin- most Important sales. Many g 1 brood mares of our choicest blood fell lo bis bid. and were sent to GraditS or 01 her big studs in Cot many for 1 he improvement of the breed. Som -how or other ids purchases of stallions wet ■ not csowned witb quite the same success, although there wa- no better Judge of a horse. Bresdalbane a. id Savernake were two of his early purchases, and of these Savernake. at all events, became the sire of a number of good horses. The sjieedy Lolly |H.p and thai great race horse, St. Catieu. scarcelv realized expectations, and the Barb] dead heater was not very long in Cerinany before he was sold to go to the Inited States, where, as the sire of that good horse Meddler which had previously crossed the Atlantic! the doublfullv sired son of Botherhill or The Rover out of St. Bdltha was wi 11 inly welcomed. ■•Count Lehndorfl was Indeed a remarkable man. and when he had served only live years in the army, in 1 Curaasier regiment, be stalled owning race horses on a big scale, and soon had horses run nine in Russia and Fiance, as well as tiernianv. with considerable success. It was some time in the sixties that King William of Prussia appointed him head of the now famous Jraditz Stud, a post be retained when iu the years to come he was made Oberiandstallmelster, which meant that, be had supreme charge of all the numerous Government studs. The GraditS Stud at times sent horses over her I lo run. and one of the earlier importations thai carried the black and white striped jacket of Count Lebndorff was Gebeimrafh. which won the Baher Stak s al Sandown Park. He was by Flageoiel oul of Gebeimnlss, by Chamaat, not our Oaks winner. Gebelmniss. The latter was only purchased by Count Lebndorff in the year Ihat Ceheimrath wo 1 I ho raoa referred : Mention of Flageolet reminds me that the Count was lerfully successful in his purchase of French stallions, and such as Chamant and Flageolet, and later Gouverneur and oilier good sires, did much to bring the Cerman thoroughbred to the pitch of excellence it wa 1 d -tiinxi lo attain under Count Lehndorffs watchful eye and fostering care. He retired at the end of 1 IU i . and was succeeded ill liis onerous duties ai GraditS by the elder of his two sons. Count Siegfrid von Lehndorff, who was formerly a gentleman rider of much distinction, and graduated for his |. resent high position as manager of one of the other Coverninont studs at Seustadt."
