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GERMANY SENSIBLE IN RACING AFFAIRS. I am no advocate for Germanizing our institutions for neither state education nor state insurance, both slavishly copied from Germany, lias been a conspicuous success in this country. All the same, the Germans. I am hound to admit, are dealing witli the question of racing in war time on much more sensible lines than we on this side. They realized t lie importance of the thoroughbred as a national asset many years ago. and racing is not limited to two days a week at a single meeting as has been the ease with us outside Newmarket. Even Austria, with the allies thundering at her gates both east and west, has eontinued to race as though all were well. "Deutscher Sport" of August :S contains programs for that day at lloppegarten and the following afternoon at Hanover, and it gives the returns for three days of the Vienna meeting. At Vienna I notice there were numerous races for maidens, more particularly for two and three-year-olds. In Germany racing is being greatly handicapped by ever-increasing demands of the army, which has recently called up a number of jockeys, inclusive of the flat race riders Kasper and P.lume, and the steeplechase jockeys Fritsche. Sholz and Kubin-ski. "Deutscher Sport" states, by the way. that the English jockeys 5. Wedgewood and H. Brown, have been released from the internment camp at Rulileben, anil that the former lias returned to England. "Vigilant" in London Sportsman.
