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maw. UNSUSPECTED PLACE OF RACING. According I i a South African rorresnoadeni attached lo General Bothas tones the Germans in Southwestern Africa, the newly-conqwered territory, are addicted to raring whenever it can be ob-tralned Luderltabucht, it appears, is quite a lug racing center In the season. The course tl w Hal ami more or lesa artificial in construction, since it is somewhat after the style of a lagoon course, the bed of which can be used. The coarse, it is understood, i- quite tint, and an in-run of the sea is opened tO B«od it sometimes before face meetings. It is r shaped, and a weeks raring was held their during what was known as the annual gala week, on the trek b Gibeon an excellent coarse was round siiiiafd practically on the site of the now fa i is tiuht. There was also an cxcellenl course ■it u- ami another at Bethany. The tracks must bar, been made as the outcome of infinite la! or and I at r. ill, surface stone, myriads ol them, re moved, and the soil harrowed In the wet season or if necessary the lop soil was removed. A strange tind was thai In almost all the booses where raring equipment was round the saddlery and gear was in. -th English ma,., and of the best quality. The German rohwists appear, says the writer, to have bad son,,, nor of imperial patronage In their racing, a-, the authorities gave every assistance in getting j;o.,| class animals into the countrj and fostered raring as much as possible. Th. inhabitant- were extremely keen on racing, and the stakes at their ■mall rare meetings wen- quite respectable, and compan favorahij with the -take values oil ring at country meetings in the South African Onion.
