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, ; J ! ! i 1 • i 1 , , , , , i i t i ■ t , . . I ■ ■ 1 1 . .- I • !! . . ![ . jj l - Jj - Is RACING IN RUSSIA DESPITE THE WAR. In reference to ami-- notes on the continuance of racing in Russia, M. W. Wegliuski, the race course, Moscow, kindly sends me some most Interesting 1 particulars about the present racing season In the country of the eaar. In the Brat place In- conrteousi] corrects an im|»resslon that in view of Warsaw being to-, near the Bghtlng li u - the meetings due lo 1st held He re bad been nun ferred to Wllna. "Racing in Warsaw, M. Wegllnskl states, "cHnmencisl on May i:. and bj sit,. ,,| the facts thai the Germ i , trenches are only -i distance of sixty kilomet. lr. in the aplta] of Poland a ,: Bull In . •oiieii . is invaded and devastated by the German 1-.,, ps. the lae-s continued until the last ap|iomted day, about 9,900 sovereigmi 5,590 in | i..-ing |wid away by the Warsaa Racing Society. Formerly thfs society gave more than 33,909 sover mils, tmt under different management liitl" hy little it has fallen almost to the level i I an untm poiiaut provincial race meeting. The ltnssian sea-i sou commences in the south r Simferopol Crimea, Novotcherkask and Kharkoff. the climate in the region of Moscoa being far too iiu,,i us for racing t taki pUce there before the end ot May." Thet meetings, my corresiMmalenl adds, are of only i.i ill iinput.iie with the e,cption of Kharkoff, whith acta as :, - ii of enrtaln raiser to the spring aea- - .ii at Moscow. The M s. ow season began on May 28 and will last until ii -totier, subject, ol course, to brief Intervals. Thai racing is in a most flourishing condition in ltusi.i is apparent from the fad that the prise money .uiwi, at .Moscow alone in the course of four or live months amounts to more than 120,000 sovei elgns 1900.900. M. Leon Mantascheff, wa ae ex tensive purchases of Mooilstock at the Newmarkel I; -, cuiher sales in 1913 and also in Prance attract-1 i,l u great deal of attention, in. correspondent Mates, has hegua the season well and owns tin- best t Iii-. year-old in Russia in the shape of Pheas- ant. b Iils dit Vent son of Flying Pox. Pheasant h;.s already won two races. Inclusive of the Spring Prise of ,759, and i:!.«ks like making the blootl of 1 lying Vox .-is well am! favorably known in Bus sia as ii already is in Prance, England and Am, v-t lea. Truly the male line of Stock well, via Bend or. Ormonde and Oraae, is bad to heat. Al Warsaw tlie chief boa am went to ■ Blly of Madame Laxar effs tin- widow of Ihe great Russian owner, M. Lasarefl named Wvine, i,. Bcmnon«l Virt i - i-i •-. in i ariniai; , . by Gallinnle out of Bellinaoaa. ih- w of 1 ti it,,. w:is ci iitriliiited .. by the weak- nes-. oi" the opposition and the absence of the Man tascheff color-. M. Mantascheff. however, carried ! off the lirst hit; race of the season at Kharkoff with i a c« lt by Glnfa sou of Matchlmx ou1 of a Bona i ist.i male. M. Wegllnskis letter .-nils with the pungent remark that "the news of the cc nation of racing in Knjjland excepl at Newmarket has - diiced greal consternation In Bussia and the sports- men ;::ul hree.ie-.-s who lately have mad considerable ■ piirihi-i- In England, and also the Bussia a govern meut, will he deprived of a criterion. How. in- adds. "Kiisshi so enormons. possessing as .:,,. ■ rloes, re than 32.009.000 horses, stands In greal i need of a corrective equine clem-,,;." "Vigilant" in l.omlon Sport -man. June 29.
