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TROUBLES OF AMERICANS IN FRANCE. Amerie-aus who own stables, or studs in France and have given moral and material support to French breeding for many years, are among the sufferers. They have not objected to the French government requisitioning such horses are art; needed for the? army, but they feel that they should be permitted to send such horses to the United States as are not so needeii. All large owners offered to give the French government two horses for every one they shipped out of France, but the offer was MjscfesA With the exception of William K. Vanderbilt. all the owners have made united and individual efforts to get their horses out. Mr. Vanderbilt alone wishes his horses to remain in France, although they are "eating their heads off." One of the stables, that of H. B. Duryea, contains such noted racers as Durbar II., winner of the 1914 Epsoin Derby: Sweeper II., a Two Thousand Guineas victor, and Blarney and Shannon, sons of the great Irish Lad.
