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i 1 1 i i ; • i ■ ANOTHER BALTAZZI BROTHER DIES. m m In less than two years the Austro-Huiuarian turf has lost three of the four famous race horse owners. the brotheil Itallaes!. of whom Alexander and Ari-- tide were the joint owner- of the Derby winner. Kisber. In turn, they joined the great majority, and now Herr Hector Baltazzi has passed away in Vienna in his sixty-fifth year. Like his brothers. he ran horses in this country and won teveral races in 1S75 with the then tbree-vear old Stray Sleo. which he had leased t mm Mr. Henry Chaplain after her hollow defeat bj iah.pin in a match for 500 sovereigns a side over the Bowles Mile. Proan Hint daughter of ToxopblUte and Vaga Mr. Chaplin subsequently bred ■ Two Thousand and Derhj winner for the Duke of We-t inin-i I r in ffhotOTCC. Hen-Hector Bnltazzi. according to "Deuis.-her Sport." first became tamoiis as i gentleman rider by win ning the Great Vienna Steeplechase two years running on his own horse. Fiirby, and on Brigantiue. the latter owned by his hrother-in law. Count G. Stockau. On Victoria he won the big steeplechase at Frankfurt-on-the-Main five years in succession. and twice carried off the Old Baden Steeplechase. He carried off many other hi;: races in Germany and Austria and iu 1ss;» „. teak up his residence porina iiently in Paris. ..nly returning at Austria at the outbreak of the present war. the claims of his native land causiug him. if somewhat reluctantly - for he had become half a I "rein •hinaii to quit the country of his adoption.— Lyudou Suortsuja.u.,
