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BRIGHT RACING AT OSTEND Belgiums Seaside Resort Shakes Off Scars of World War and Turns to Sport. PARIS, France, August 12. The race meeting at Ostend continues brilliantly on its two-monthr, course. No racing at a seaside resort, except the meetings at San Sebastian in the war years of 1910 and 1917, has enjoyed such a prolonged duration of such generous support from the race-going public. The number of high-grade horses there has been constantly swelled by new arrivals. The other day at the AVellington track there were no fewer than fifty-seven starters in a modest handicap race. The smaller races, it is true, have succeeded far better than the big stake events at the Belgian resort. There were only eight entries in. the 0,000 Grand Prix. One can see the reason for this disproportionate alignment in the excessive and complicated conditions which surround the running of a big stake event. Normally such a race should attract a large .number of exceptionally high-grade horses that is its purpose but, under the complicated system of charges and surcharges, it is impossible that the stake events should draw any but mediocre fields. The remarkable feature of the success of the meeting at Ostend is, after all, that in a country so deeply scarred by. the AVorld AVar as was Belgium a sport should score so brilliant a triumph in stick a short time after the catastrophe.
