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THE MATTER OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE. It is indeed of paramount importance that both in France and England we should know exactly which are the best thoroughbreds to breed from in the days after the terrible conflict h -comes merely an unhappy memory], as beyond question the two e-ountriis possess between them almost a complete monopoly of the worlds greatest strains of blood. They have many good horses in Russia and Italy, as well as in the United States, Australia and Argentina, but all these countries arc-too remote for practical purposes, for the resuscitation, if such be-eomes necessary, of our fundamental lire-ding stocks. As for the enemy countries — Germany, Austria and Hungary — we know-that there are. or. at any rate. were, many high-class British and French-bred sin-s at the principal breeding establishments when hostilities commenced. What has Ix-come. or will become, of many of these horses we do not know, bat even if the majority were to be on offer in the days to come, it is probable, to say the bast, that any inclination to enter into dealings with the people concerned will be discouraged, if not entirely prohibited. For this reason. I am not particularly disposed to attach great importance to the fact — if it be a fact — that 153 days racing have been arranged by the German turf authorities for the approaching season there. In England, the home of racing, we are faced with a program of but twenty-nine days total duration, unless additional fixture-s are arranged, but it is just as wel not to aaggest that anything the Germans do should be copied by us. — "Augur" in London Sporting Life.
