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FUTURE OF FRENCH BREEDING Baron Rothschild Says France Looks to Wealthy Americans to Re-Establish It. Special Correspondence. lAKIS, France. August 5. The racing crowd are till at Vichy or at Dcattville. The Grand Prix will be run at the former place on the seventh, and Deativille begins in earnest next week. Yesterday the Normandy racing commenced with a snnfll meeting at Lisicux, about twenty miles from Dcattville. Paris is quite deserted, and the familiar faces are missed front the usual haunts of the racing man. The season at Deativille promises to be a good one; not probably a banner one like last year, witli everybody money mad at the tables, on the race course, and in the sales ring. We will not see the prices for yearlings this season which we saw last seasou. Some good looking well-bred yearlings will no doubt bring the price they used "o in prewar days 0,000 to ,000 but I do not believe we ale going to see the number told well over the .S20.0W mark, as in 1020. Baron Maurice dc Bothschild was quoted on the following lines in the Petit Iarisien: "France is looking to America to insure the future of her horse breeding and racing. Wealthy Americans coming to resida in France will in future replace the former famous French breeders and reestablish French racing in its old flourishing condition. FRENCH BREEDERS XACK DEVOTION. "French breeders of today are not willing to make the same sacrifices as those of the past and acquire bloodstock from England under the present unfavorable rate of exchange. The new breeders are not inspired by the same regardless of cost devotion to the sport. "The contrary is the case in England, where, if some famous breeders have disappeared, they have been replaced by others equally ardent." The breeder and owner or Sardanapale knows what he is talking about, as far as his statement that the newcomers are not inspired by the same devotion to the sport as the old days. All the same it will be many a day before America sends over another batch of sportsmen like Vandnrbilt, Duryea. Sanford, Mackay, Hitchcock and Whitney. The latter only had a few mares in France, but he patronized the highest priced stallions. Joseph E. Wideuer is today still with us. His stable and breeding establishment is small, but exclusively of the best and. like Lord Astor and the late "Fairie" Cox, quality is going to make up for quantity. The Mucomber stable is going through a series of disappointments and defeats, but will probably strike its stride next year. It is to be hoped so as a return for his big outlay. Certainly the breeding palms of victory must rest with the Duryea and Widener studs for the last few years among the Americans. Naturally the States want to keep its own; but France is a fine country and the racing aud its surroundings more agreeable than anywhere else in the world. The prizes are big. and the forfeits nothing, and it is a long way to aud some years to Nt.ilhwui, so for ihe glory of an American Grand Prix again let us hope Maurice de Bothschild is right.
