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NOTES OF THE TUPF FROM OTHER LANDS. Mile M. Bphramj has decided to continue th ■ breeding of thoroughbreds at her stud farm at Reux, near Pnat-1ffieejae. .1. Froat, the well r.nov.,1 jockey, and hi.; father have left Newmarket on tin- first stege of their long journey home to Australia. Chevalier Van Den Branden and Lieut. Dictus, capable gentlemen riders in Belgium before tic-war, have both succumbed BS a result of the lighting they have bei ■ through in Flaialcrs. Lieut. S. Lender, youngest son of the veteran Newmarket trainer, is home on short leave, after five months at the front. The Wronghtoo House trainer has three other sons iu the army. The French breeder M. V. Duret his sold the whole of his yearlings to M. Eknayan. Among them are some stylish-bred youngsters, claiming Fan-cheur. Nimbus, Verwood, Comburg or Borax as their sires. apt. P. Day and Lieut. V. Priestley are with their respective regiments in Mesopotamia, dipt Hay is tiie sen of the Arundel trainer, and Lieut. Priestley trained at Lamboum, and afterwards at Baaam, before the war. All the thoroughbreds comprising T. P. Thomes breeding stud, namely, thirty broodmares and the stallions Le Mclior and Magellan, will shortly be transferred to the Haras de Dangu. which Mr. Thorne has leased in partnership with Bama Bae-yens. Last month at Epsom the death took place of Christopher Prior, at the age of 77. He was a jockey who had considerable riding in the late "sixties." and was on the back of Beeswing when that mare won the Chester Cup for "Squire" Heath-cote in 1807. M. Fernaiid David, the French Minister of Agriculture, has decided to authorize the holding of selection trials on the flat and over obstacles at Chnntilly. Maisons-Luffitte and Le Pouscat. No betting will be allowed nor will the general public be admitted. Trainer Sam Darlings youngest son Douglas, has been promoted a captain in the Kings African Rifles, serving in British Fast Africa. He was living on a farm near Nairobi when the war broke out and went all through the campaign under General Smuts. News has been received from Percy AVoodland that he is still in a hospital in Turkey, but he is progressing satisfactorily. When the aeroplane in which lie was flying was brought down, falling some 3.000 feet. Woodland was found suffering from a shrapnel wound iu the knee, while a shoulder was put out. . The New Zealand jockey F. E. Jones, has some- I thing of a mortgage on the Dunedin Champagne Stakes. He first won that race on Husbandman in 1908. and since then has won it seven times. Good as is Jones record of eight wins, it does not equal R. Derretts performance in the same race, the last-mentioned jockey having won it nine times. Baron M. de Rothschild has decided to dispose of all his jumpers, and they will lie sold at auction towards the end of next month. They comprise Tattling, Iathyrns. Debrouillard, Diamond Star, Orrietan. Chant du Cygue. Fier Sicambre, Moutgolfier, Pregny, Scmeur, Giocomini. Gourka, Maxim Gun, Ocean, Ordre du Jour aud Saint Omer,
