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HOW GERMAN BREEDING GREW Much Early Opposition to Count Lchndorffs Plan and English Aides Facilities were afforded me in days gone by when there was no talk outside Germany of the hidden plans for recommencing the campaign aban ¬ doned in 1871 or of the drenm of Bismarck tb modern Richelieu of a new worlds empire to travel through Germany visiting the principal centers of breeding The attention paid to the remount de ¬ partment proved that the master of the horse Count Lchndorff had little faith in the thoroughbred ns sire or dam of the cavalry supply for the cam ¬ paign mapped out by the kaiser only just freed from the tutelage of Bismarck the political sponsor of the Hohenzollern dynasty It was a long and perilous task undertaken by the finance minister of gathering in taxes with one hand and respond ¬ ing to the demands of the different departments connected with the military administration Count Lehndorff who might have been justly styled G i manys premier sportsman was persona grata at the Berlin court He was devoted to the thorough bred No important race in Europe found him ab ¬ sent from the Jockey Club stand to watch cvtrr incident from start to finish He was n keen jiug of the horse and though another may fill the plnro from which deatli has removed him he will h greatly missed He had many difficulties to en ¬ counter when he established the stud at Graditr It was hard to convince the government officnl who were delegated by the minister of agriculture and finance of the importance of the stud he hao formed in the teeth of opposition from each fiscal department Racing was not in high favor save a a pastime for officers and though the Jockey Club at Hamburg and Berlin had enrolled gentlemen of position who took an interest in the sport at Homer Moor and at Hoppegarten they looked on the es ¬ tablishment at Graditz as an attack on their privi ¬ leges legesJEALOUS JEALOUS OF ENGLISH AIDES AIDESThere There was the proverbial storm in the teacup when Richard Waugh was engaged as trainer for the Graditz stud Hoppegarten was revolutionized Trainer and manager found it difficult to regard the rough gallops on the banks of the Kibe at Graditz as an excellent spot for training a Derby winner and the excellent gallops at Hoppegarten the Ger man Newmarket were only open to horses frop Graditz a week or so before the principal events on the calendar Owners were aggrievd when defeated by horses bought at the NewmarUct sales or privately with the national funds and r l den by specially engaged English jockeys for half a century ago German jockeys could not ride for candy Further the stakes subscribed by German owners for the winner gave the state further op ¬ portunity to make other purchases and carry on thk campaign There was a gleam of hope for the private owncrswhen it was rumored that the black and white striped racing colors of the Prussian state would be withdrawn There was no foundation for such a report however Business was good ii Germany The possession of a racing stable gtivi a certain amount of kudos to its owner and th establishments of Baron Oppenheim and the new ven ¬ ture of Baron Bleichroeder a Roemerhof who was killed in an automobile accident On returning home from the Grand Prix de Paris were held in liign regard The Messrs Weinberg who had monopo ¬ lized the trade in aniline dyes before the war were ennobled with the German Von for the stud they had instituted just outside Frankfort These are all private concerns Much interesting informa ¬ tion regarding the commencement of Prussian gov crnment studs their origin and progress could be given by Richard Waugh who is still in Germany or by Iiis brother W Waugh both of whom were ad ¬ mitted to the counsels of the late Count Lebn dorff when he was unravelling the problems of the military supply of horses for the German cavary and artillery Paris Correspondent of London Sp rts
