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ti d e i .. . .1 I t .1 e I • ." up in j! _ _ ,1 in , . d J in 11 - it THOMAS WELSH ON FRENCH RACING. Saratoga. N. V.. August 13. — Trainer Th mas Welsh was talking entertainingly to a lew friends regarding racing families and racing condition- m Prance, "As in England," lie said, "the best sires in Prance are son- of St. Simon They are probably the mo-t fashionable, but Le nancy, by the English horse Atlantic i- highly thought of and the s as Of Le Saucy are also popular, as are also the Hollar mare-. Klf, a grandson of I.e Saney. is also a sue cessful sire, lie gets nearly all graya. lie was the sin- of Nimbus, an exeeptionaUy fast hoi-e. "A sprinter is of no practical ase in Trench rnc-• ing. They do not race any except two year olds over what we consider sprinting distances. Ro-.-bcn at his lust could not have earned his oats over there. Be aUghl gel a chance to -tart ..nee or twice a year. They, in Prance, consider a mile ami a quarter a sprint for three v ear ..Ids and upward. The Hraad Prix for three war -old s is over a course of a mile ami seven-eighths, and they do aot can-u Rider tw., miles too great a distance for a three year ..hi. "The scale of weights over there is practically tlie -line as it is hare. Rut they live right up to it all the lime. Ton never see a race programmed leu pownda belOW the scale. and the result is that their .ki.1 .jockeys la-t a long time. It is not mi coanaaoa to see a successful Jockey forty years old or over in France."
