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2 3 ; 1 3 -, 6 , 7 - 8 9 1 I I : J 1 • • I 1 1 ■ • - I - 1 NOVEL USE FOR RUSSIAN PRISONERS. Owners of German Raeins Stables Employing Captives in Caring for Thoroughbreds. New- York, Mar.h 10.— George Archibald, one of the American riders who has been saecessfni in Austria and oilier European countries, writes that the kustrian Jockey club has passed a rule for bidding licenses being granted to foreign riders. Ii- does n,d say whether it will affect him 0T for . i-n riders who already have licenses for this year, but goes on to say that plenty of racing will i»- held iii Germany this year. "Bo far." says Olid, "we have quite a lot of racing days. There will be sixteen at Hopnegarten and sixteen .•• Grnnewnld. a tra 1. .hist outside of Berlin, and which has been an d :~ .1 hospital until recently. D i- at this tra k that the Grosse Prise, a race worth D10.IMIO marks, is decided, also the St. D.er. After this meeting comes Cologne with five days. Frankfort five days and Hanover five days. These are the larger meetings. There ar. many small affairs, but the Pest meeting of all will be Hamburg, where the Derby and Crosse Prise of Hamburg, both worth KM, OX marks, are to be run. •■Vim therefore see the war is not affecting racing greatly. Xearly all the German I rkeys w bo are in the army are stationed here in Ber- lin ami will not have to CO to the front. -• there v. ill I,.- n • scarcity ■■ riders. "Taken as a whole, the German boys ride very w.ii. especially a 1- named Bastenberger. He is ..bout as finished a rider as one could find .•iny-1 where He rode last year for Kred Tarel ami is engaged for the government stable this year. An apprentice named Kaspar, who rides for apt. Bauer, the man .1. Beiff rode for bere, and who served part of his apprenticeship in England under trainer Waugh, looks like the making of a UK.d ridel. "Owing to lack of stable help, on the first of February a lot of Bussian cavalry prisoners will r • to work in the different stables. We have wis. The quarters for them to sleep in are fin-I isli.,1. and are comfortable, w.ll heat. I and yen tllated. In all there will be front 150 to 200. all volunteers. We liave to pay them three marks a day. They receive thirty pfennigs or about si* reats, and the rest goes for their board. Six cents isnt much, but as they can only buy tobacco they dont need any more. Then when one tiiiaks how much better off they are getting six ..nt- a day than up in Dussia in the trenches, it isnt so bad." No better demonstration of the value placed on the thoroughbred in Germany can be offered than Archibalds interesting report on the German outlook for this year.
