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RACING IMPROVEMENT IN GERMANY. Reports of Last Year Show Decided Gain During the Season of 1916. A report of the racing conditions in German stables daring 1010, the second year of the war. le.ws a decided Improvement, as the total stakes amounted to fOO.TBOl. compared with ttO.**flO in 1915. whin tin re were only few racing meets. In 1014, until the outbreak of the war. the stakes divided ranched only fir. M0. so that 1010 shows an improvement of half a million marks. In 1013, the last peace year, there was as much as ,575,000 offered as prizes for flat races. The slakes for 1314 were almost evenly divided among the winning stables, none of them playing an exceptional role. On tie- contrary, even the bigm-t of them hail to be satisfied wit 1 1 aasounti corresponding to their expenditures. Seven stables received more than 028,000, eight more than 2,500 ami forty nix other- reached more than si!.r, n». The Gradita "stable led with 000.482, followed by A. and c. von Weinberg with 081,255. The latter st.il i h.nl a good season, exceeding that of 1915 by 50.-0M and that of Pill by 031,250. The Oppenbeim stable won 1,085, doubling the result e 1015. The fourth place is occupied by tie stable of W. Lindenstaedt, reaching a total af 2,000, .s..niMt more than in his last season 1013. Since the Lindenstaedt stable, with forty horses. is the largest in Germany, it hi obvieaa that his winnings will barely cover the great cost of racing in war time, when oats and hay have reached highest prices, not to mention other lacn eslug expense-. Ill spite of tli- small stakes. R. Haldols stable records, 5,000 in 1915. reaching 0,000 in 1010. of tii. leading Germaa stables these have won the following sums in the last twenty years: Mess. a. ami c. von Weinberg ,050,000 Gradita 1,637.500 Baraa von Upiienhefaa 1,300,001 Mr. von Lang Iuthof and M. A. von Sehnioid- er 502.500 Mr. P. ilaniel 75IUMMI
