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FRANCES PROGRAM OF AUTUMN RACING Another draft of close on 00,000 has been made on the reserves of the leading race societies for the eleven meetings to be held each Thursday and Monday at Chantilly from September 13 to October 25 of racing on the flat and across country and for the "illegitimate" sport each Tuesday and Saturday, from October 30 until November 10, in all fifteen days. The program has already been published. It repeats with palpable change of appellation the titles of those events which formerly associated with the autumn season at Paris and Chantilly, with the necessary alterations as to conditions and amount of added money. Watch and ward kept over the city of Paris by the military authorities has retained possession of the race-course at Longschamps as an aerodrome. The Prix du Conseil Municipal, the international "four thousand pounder," has been replaced by the "Prix dOcto-bre," which disappeared from amopg the back-end fixtures on the creation of the international event, for which the Municipal Council deducted 00,000 from the rental of the course in the Bois de Boulogne. The allocation has been reduced to ,000, but a novelty has been Introduced to enhance the attractions of the eleventh and last day of the season at Chantilly by the publication of the conditions of a new race, which, it is said, has come to stay, and will appear on the program as the Grand Prix dAutomne on the final day of the autumn Chantilly meeting, and will be known as the Grand Prix dAutomne for three, four and five-year-olds,-at weight-for-age, without penalties and allowances. The entry is fixed at 0 and the distance is a mile and a half. Particular encouragement has been offered the two-year-olds in the autumn program, though necessity compels economy when there is no revenue derived from the mutuels or the "gate." Paris letter to London Sportsman. i
