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TRAINING ON FRENCH BUSINESS SYSTEM. New York, June 27.— Eugene Leigh, who during his lengthy stay in France made the Americau trainer a person to lx- looked upto by French turfmen, has opened a public training stable at Oravesend. He has leased the large and coni-niodius training ipiarters formerly known as the Ureen 1$. Morris stable, and more recently occupied by Foxhall Keenes thoroughbreds, and intends training aa the French business system by which a turfman who desires to keep only one, two or three horses may have them trained, fed and cared for at a fixed rate i er month without incurring the expense of employing a trainer and maintaining a training establishment and all that goes with it. Eugene Leigh raced many famous horses in this country, including Clifford, Itlack Venus and other good ones. P.efore going to the other side he had the well-known La Belle farm near Lexington. Ky.. which he afterward transferred to the late William 0. Whitney, who had a valuable band of mares and such great horses as Hamburg, Kilmarnock, Meddler, Dallyhoo Bey and other highly -prized stallions on the place in PJ03.
