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1 1 1 j DECAZES WINNING JUMPERS French Noblemans Horses Account for Over 0,000 in Three Weeks. SPKCIAL I •ORKF.SpiJNDKNCr; . PAP1S. Praace. January 17.— About 7 oclock last evening it started in snowing qiite up to American style. The taxis ran to cover and it promi " i to develop into a young blizzard. Today, however, the sun is out and the streets afaataal clear of snow. The Trix a Monte Carlo, otherwise known as the big hurdle race, was run at Ni-e yesterday lie fore a big ciom1. Thirteen wont to the post. They nt-e rather a rsaaay l"t of jumpers. The Date Dscaan started three frtim hi- -table, and be alinojt filled the places. At it was. he ran first with Brave, third with Charabia and fourth with Ibis. His representatives won him in Ibia race ,520. The -econd place was filled by Mann Porrono Bas-an. which ran a grand race frith the amagbl he carried. 161 pounds. Willie Head rode the win nor, and Btaraya had liim nicely plac-d. At the hj turn he moved him up to the front, followed by Bassan. hut, despite a bold effort by the latter, it was seen Brave would get home, which he did by three lengths. As the Decazcs colors ran fir-t and third in the Prix Adolphe Denm-tier with LYser and Tartafa, the clo-ing event of the card, they had something of a field day. In the last three weeks this iK-cazcs stable has won well over 0,000, a truly remarkable record. What I nice two-horse stable Mr. Porrono. the Italian millionaire, has. with a hurdler like BanBBSj and that smasher Flechois for the long-distance flat event-. Contrary to general opinion the only French entry for Liverpools Grand National is ITtimatum. Coq Gaulois and Heros XII. were not entered. Good j horse, as game little Cltimatura was. his lot since the war has not been easy or happy, ami we cannot see him at Aintree at all. He seems to be getting cunning also. The Italian mare Absidea won at Nice yesterday over the steeplechase course of two aud one-half miles. She is entered at Liverpool. Certainly she was winning the Grand Steeplechase of Paris last June when she followed Heros XII. over the wrong jump turning for home,
