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FOREIGN SMALL OWNERS SAD PLIGHT. In Germany, as in this eoomtry, the horse-hreeding industry is being seriously threatened by the gen oral stoppage of racing. According to "Deutsche* Sports" list of lixlurcs. now lhat the various meetings at Honpegartea and the two courses at Hamburg have been run through. as at present arranged, there will lie only four more days racing ibis year, one at Uoppegarteu Cologne Racing Club and three at Frankfurt on-the-Main. Another .lays racing is iu contemplation at Hamburg, bat apparently thai is to be all. Breed .is and owners of tlat racers and jumpers in Get many aie feeling the pinch even more, if anything, than those connected With breeding and racing iu England; they are agitating strongly for more meetings, using practically the same arguments as those which have frequently been put forward in the columns ot the Sportsman. There, as in this country, the small owners and Munll bleeders — who have locked tip their capital in bloodstock only to rind their horaea reduced to sera heap value are the chief sufferers by the stoppage. The big German ata blea have practically swept the board at the meetings which have been held, small or eompaia tiveh/ small owners having won few indeed Of the races. This applies al to a considerable extent to lacing iu England. At all events, the restriction of the test of flic race COOTM *.. Newmaxjiet. with the resulting hig entries for races, makes it much more dilli.nlt for owners lo place their horses so that I hey can have a fair chance of winning, and it is Imperative that there should he meetings al lowed elsewhere than at the turf metropolis for the small owners anil breeders to escape ruin. — London Sportsman.
