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RACING IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE Racing has been pursued on the continent during the year steadily if not vigorously evidence of the fact that it is held to Iw an indispensable branch of the thoroughbred breeding industry The ques ¬ tion whether the usual autumn meeting should be held at Rome was answered in the affirmative There lias been much rating in the central empires and in France what are described as trials race meetings to which the public are not admitted have been held regularly There is a considerable amount of betting and in spite of the difficulties and obscurities which are unavoidable the prices are considered fair