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PROSPECTIVE RACE MEETINGS IN FRANCE. May Be Jumping Races at Chantilly as Well as Flat Racing; — Spaai: h Meetings. The French Minister ef Agriculture has sanctioned the Balding ..f race meetings this season on rather more liberal lines, sat iimler similar restrictions to those which obtained last year, which i- ;• s;,y that the ueri-mutaei will be prohibit.-. 1. and the course aeeeasShV only to owners, trainers, breeders, and those directly concerned in the Bootses* ef racing. PrksM will be confined to weight -for-age rae.-. and meetings will lie held at than tilty. the French Keammrket, and at MsMons La ffitte. An effort will be made to hold .lumping raeea aa thnflar lines, but as Auteuil is not avail ■kle these may be run lor the first time in its history at haul illy, and in view of this possibility most of the principal trainers of hurdle racers ami steeplechaser have been invited to furnish particulars of ti; ■ horse* in their stables. The French I Jockey Cteh and Steeple, base Society will find the money, and heiein we have evidence of the desire alike of g.vcrnmi Bt and the coutrolers of turf affairs to further its interests as far as possible. I gather that sssae at least of the racing estak- | Uakasent* in France are being kept tip to full Rtrengtk, among them those of W. Bake, who has .".s horses at Saint Lenta da Boissy belonging to Y. K. Yan.lerbilt. Lleax is established at Matssa* LaBltte with 43 anin.als. inelidiiu; Antivari for I the King of Sjiain; and IS. Denman. at Cliamant. has lil horses the property ef apt. Colin. Another French Derby Winner. All tkal I have written in praise of Good Buck IB. half-brother to Willonyx. by Ajax. is confirmed and 1 fully expert that his omission from the Derby will be made gooil iii the substitute race at New-BMrket. Gaad Buck II. was nominated for the I Two Tkonaand Gateeaa, and it is within the hounds J of possibility that he will win both that race and the "Blue Bibaml." Baron B. de lSoths.hild is keeping np to av. rage strength hi- big cstablish-iiient under the charge ,,f Watson, and. atthoagh M. J. IB nnessy is eii active scrvici with the Piencii navy, hi- interest in sport, eaaeeially in sneeple-cnasiag, i as keea as ever, and one hopes that Batehelor will son have another Bulteiir to train for him. The racing boom ia Spain is still growing and King Alfonso has already .1 string of thirty-one hoi -is in training at MadrM under tne control of M. le Neater. Lyne, the Aaserleaa rider, arho achieved *ath marked sue. ess in Belgium, has been retained a* firsl lockej 1 • the Royal stable, and second to him will rule Dckoacd. The new conraa at Aran.iuc". which is to be the Spanish Asco:. ha* beea completed, the stands being of the rustic style adapted at Bpn, and the pad.l-.ek «ill. it is I claimed, be the most picturesque in Spain. At the Madrid iff tings the pari amtuels alone will Im- i er-mitte.l. but bookmakers will be allowed to ply the pencil at Aranjuez. San Sebasti.n and Santan-der. — "Yigilaat" iii Londaa Bpartaaaaa.
