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POOR OUTLOOK FOR FRENCH RACING. The old hostelry, the "Cheval Blanc," is the meeting place of sportsmen and officers. My amiable collaborator, M. Jean Joubert. to whom sportsmen are indebted for the actual publication of the "Chronique du Turf," since leaving Chau-tilly has settled down at Angers. He has, as member of the various committees formed by the government, since Baron de La Rochette yielded his imperial charter in exchange for the banishment of the bookmaker from the turf, been in communication with more than one of the authorities of the French Jockey Club. His information leads to the conclusion that even should the war cease, it is not likely that our racing season in France can possiblv he resumed before the Deanville meeting in August, 1915. Nearly every racecourse in France has been requisitioned for military purises or by tlie local authorities for storing supplies. Consequently, whatever may he said to the contrary, although in the majority of cases round Paris a minimum amount of damage has been done, time would be required to lit them for the resumption of sport. Again, the customary list of meetings and programmes cannot possibly be published at the commencement of the year. As was the case in 1871, all the classic events of the spring and summer at Paris and Chantilly will fall out, and siwrt will be resumed much in the same locality as it was ended either at Deanville or Caen. There will he no Oaks, Derby, and Grand Prix de Paris, and our two-year-olds have perforce been turned out of training. Cross-country sport will suffer the fame fate, while the ranks of those who are "poor men, poor laboring men, and have uo work to do." will be increased by the influx of those who depended on racing. Paris Letter to London Sportsman.
