view raw text
LATEST OF GERMAN RACING PLANS. According to "Deutscher Sport" of January SO, the Gradita Studs string thi- year ciusi.-i- of only twenty-five horse-, and of these fourteen are two-Near olds. The chief manager of the stud is credited with the intention of limiting the yearlings to be taken up annually for racing to fifteen in future years, although many more are bred at the slu. I. What will be done with the others has not yet transpired. Possibly they may be s.,id at auction, as eras formerly done with the yea: lings at our Royal stud at Hampton Court, the birthplace of such celebrities as Springfield, Memoir and La Flcche. Heliirning to -Deutscher Sport." nothing had apparently been definitely settled last ■reek about .late- tor the various Geraaan meetings. Put the paper referred to suggests that as -•"in a- Hie dates for the Berlin meetings have been arranged ii v. ill be advisable to have a coti-ference of the executive! of the other meetings where racing is to be allowed, in order to do away with any chance of lashing. It is amusing, in view of the anltry in Germany against having race horses with Fnglish names, to note that "Dent sober S|H-rt" still heads its lists of the various owners strings, "Pferde im Training." and uses I In word trainer for Hie heads of tile various Ktaldes, Why do not the Germans u - their owa "ord, "dresslcren." instead of "training." and find their own equivalent for "Jockey" Loudon Sportsman.
