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PROSPECTS OF CONTINENTAL RACING According to the Allgemeine Sport Zeitung Vienna Russian meetings which in the ordinary course would have been held at Warsaw are being transferred to Wilua another big Polish city Prince Lnbnmirski the owner of KsSaze Pan Mosci Ksaze etc it is said transferred his breeding stud to the neighborhood of Wilna some time ago Apparently the Anstriuns are determined to hold their annual Derby meeting at Vienna According to Deutsiher Spurt the Austrian Jockey Club lias decided to have a sixday Derby meeting in the Ferudenau during June at which will l e run In addition to the Derbv such other closed races as the Stuten Prize the Arlstlde Baltazzi Memorial etc In the autumn too the holding of meetings ut Vienna Alag and IJnda Pesth is hopefully spoken of As to the jockeys the Australian B Hislake who used to ride In this country be ¬ fore he went to Austria is not apparently op ¬ timistic about the immediate future at all events of racing in the Dual Monarchy for Deutscher Sport announces that he has fixed up an engage ¬ ment to ride for three months in Roumanla for tin stable of Mr Martiuovici one of the most promi ¬ nent owners in that country after Mr Marghiloman Mr Martinovici has a string of twentyfour horses in the care of J Verdlcr near Bucharest where the first meeting of the year began on April IS Meanwhile there is no fresh news in the German papers about forthcoming meetings in Germany but us fresh gallops have been opened in the training quarters at Hoppegarten trainers are no doubt getting on with the preparation of their horses The American lockeys W Shaw the jockey for Messrs Von Weinbtr rs stable and Miles who is said to have Iveen engaged to ride for the Austrian owner Baron Springer are expected to arrive short ¬ ly from the United States London Si ortsman o Mar 4