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NO PROSPECT OF RACING IN FRANCE Under actual conditions there will be no racing in France for a long time to come Amateurs who know little about racing save the conversation car ¬ ried on at one or other of the places where trainers cail now and again to exchange notes and venture a forecast as to the time when racing will be resumed are ready to volunteer information resi ecting the different classic events of the year and their dates Latitude is given by the Hules of Uacing to the Societe dEucoitragement which can choose between Longchamp and Chantilly for holding Its meetings Other societies round Paris could possibly race with ¬ in a brief iioriod but first of all men and lads are wanting and then comes the great question as to where the good threeyearolds of the past year huve been HrittanyThere boarded iu Normandy or Hrittany There will be no racing until the German has been driven out of France and Ielgiuui The crosscountry ISulIetiii publshcd by the Steeplechase Society is enigmatic and is simply a summary of racing be ¬ tween the Hags in 1I14 up to the commencement of hostilities witli a notice to subscribers that the next issue of the bulletin will be published when cir ¬ cumstances permit At all events there seems at the moment little or no hojie of any Grand Prize of Iaris this year though some of the more sanguine think that an allied victory might make it possibe to bring off the Deauville program of 1UK5 in August All sporting journals in Im Is are resting for lack of news and through the absence of their leading writers M Georges Kaltazzi the amiable editor of Le Jockey is at the moment at Monte Carlo re ¬ gretting circumstances which have deprived him of his statf My whloin colleague M Jean Joubert whose articles on the stable of the late Count de Lagrange were so much appreciated will neither rest nor rust under conditions of inactivity in the sport ¬ ing world As the proprietor and editor of the Chronique du Turf he contemplates publishing the useful btMiklet on the tenth and twentyfifth f each mouth iriving us the benefit of lis gleanings They should be more than usttaKy interesting since M Joubert is the secretary of the syndicate of the Hreeders of the Thoroughbred in France a member of the Stud IJcok committee and of the Permanent Kacing Commission nominated by the Minister of Agriculture Iaris Letter to London Sportsman of February 17
