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TURF NOTES FROM LANDS ABROAD According to news from Bagdad. Mesopotamia, Frank Wootton, the English ex-champion rider, rode a winner at a race meeting there. He is said to be weighing at the present time somewhere round 10S pounds. The well-known French racing man M. G. J. Arnaud, who won the Grand Prix de Paris witli Doge in 1897, has been the subject of a special army citation. Despite his age sixty years he went into the fighting as a lieutenant of Cuirassiers and served through the war. No date has been fixed for the nwumption of sport, but the controllers of all the great societies in France trust that the reopening of the race courses will be possible with much less delay and witli a greater regard to the interest of breeding aud qt the City of Paris. Le Jockey.
