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IMPORTANT FRENCH RACING One and Two Thousand Guineas GuineasProvide Provide Fine Racing How HowAmericans Americans Are Faring SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCEPARIS PARIS France May 14 This was French Guineas day at Longchamps With such beautiful weather a larger crowd would nat ¬ urally have been expected Tho place was just well filled There was nothing like the number attending last week when Ksar won tho Prix du Cadran CadranThe The Poule dEssal des Poullches or the French One Thousand saw the overthrow of the hot favorite Zariba supposed by all to be tho logical filly crack of 1922 now that Sweepers daughter Zenola has gone to be a matron at the Haras du Gazon The victory was popular as the winner turned up in Lord Derbys Frisky a nice gray daughter of Isard trained by Willie Pratt Sha won handily from Hyporlte and Honey ¬ suckle suckleAfter After this we had the Poule dEssai dea Poulatns or the French Two Thousand Guineas Joyeux Drille was the favorite and the Edouard do Rothschild pair Mont Blanc and Parlslen were next in favor favorIn In my last letter I mentioned Mont Blanc winning a nice race at 3000 meters I have all along quietly thought this horse would be ths French Grand Prix hope Today he showed that Ii9 can sprint as well as stay Coming Jnto the otretch McGee had him on the rails and seemed confident when Stern challenged on the favorite Mont Blanc would not be denied and credited this rich stake to the blue and yellow yellowIn In the Cup Flechols was beaten by Jean Sterns Blnlc The winner was in receipt of eleven pounds However Flechols seemed to be still a bit the worse for the race last week when ha was beaten by Ksar Binic is by Royal Eagle exiled in Servia Your Olympus is also by this stallion stallionIn In the first race Watson sent a fine big filly of Edourd de Rothschilds to the post and an easy win in McGees hands It was her first start and she won so easily that one must tab her for future events Like all the Meautry horses she is well named Sans Vertu by Sans le Sou and Verroterie This filiy la likely to be heard from again againFliAXK FliAXK ONEILLS AMERICANISM AMERICANISMAs As ONeill was going out of the gate with Lamartino In the Prix des Acacias he called to me and asked if I had any word yet about the Kentucky Derby It showed that hs was thinking even away off hero of Fred Builew and Morvlch Through the stretch ho had no time to think about anything except McGee and Zapanie for a terrible battle was in progress between the colt and the filly This Lamartine has an unbeaten record this season but It was the nearest of near things today A dead heat could have been given as well as a short head After the race Frank told me that Mc ¬ Gees fily was hanging on his horse from the trainers stand to the post and he was hindered somewhat somewhatTonight Tonight ONeill is still further in the lead with thirtynine wins in 151 mounts a truly remaikable performance in getting outside winning rides as his own stable has so far only succeeded four times in two months Bellhoiuie is second with twentyseven Mc Geo third with twentyone Winkfield fourth with sixteen Sharpe fifth with fifteen and Haynes sixth with thirteen thirteenPortefin Portefin leads the trainers with the big average of fiftytwo runners returning him sixteen winners Gene Leigh is second with fourteen winners in 111 starters startersYesterday Yesterday at Le Tremblay a hot favorite ran a poor race and the stewards called the owner trainer manager and jockey in for an explanation The filly in question was Prcfira owned by N E Ambatielos trained by Wallace Davis and ridden by George Stern Comtc Sampieri is the man ¬ ager fir the stable Last season it was rumored that this filly bled and something of the sort may have happened yesterday At any rate Stern when he found he was beaten puIcd her up and the crowd in the pelouse across the track of course promptly told him when he rode back to weigh in that he was a robber How often has he stolen a race for them But that is another story
