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FRENCH VALUES PRACTICALLY WRECKED. The dismal effect of the complete stoppage of racing in France on the values of thoroughbred stock was plainly shown at the sale of the Dangu Stud, horses, mares, three-year-olds and young stock, the property of Madame Michel Ephrussi All that was realized by the sixty-six lots which changed hands was 5,101. an average price per head of between and . Even the stallion. Matchless, an eight-year-old, by Tartuin Amaryllis, which won several high-class juvenile events, and as a three-year-old ran third for tlte Graud Prize of Paris to As dAtout and Combourg, realized only a paltry $",100. the top price of the sale. Yearlings went at rubbish price; and simply because there has been no racing to test their merits the three-year-old fillies, well-bred though they were, were knocked down in some instances for considerably less than the regulation price given in this country for army remounts. The situation of breeders is bad enough in the United Kingdom, even witli a certain amount of racing to help keep things going. Had it not been for the efforts of the stewards of the Jockey Club and the insistence of the Owners. Breeders and Trainers Association on the necessity for racing things would probably have been just as bad here as they now are in France. London Sportsman.
