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JUMPING SEASON I FRANCE Frank ONeill Again Signs to Ride for A. K. Macomber. Fred Williams In Great Form and Many-Good Offers Have Been Made for His 1923 Services. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, France, December 1. The weather has kept open, but with considerable fog. Jumping is on in full force at Auteuil and Enghien. The rebuilding of the entire plant at the former place makes it ratner uncomfortable finding ones way about, but everybody seems content" to put up with the discomfort, realizing what a fine and wonderful place it will be next spring. Heros XII. and Corot have both appearea. Neither has as yet scored, but the season is still young. The Decazes and Lleux confederacy, which commenced when the former bought the Lienart horses, parted company by mutual consent the otHer Gay, ana Charley Bariller now has all the ducal horses in training. Lieux, however, bought the Dues half of Harpocrate. It has not been publicly stated yet what becomes of tlie contract on Willie Head, but I think Barre will be doing most of the riding for the Bariller trained horses. In this connection it is well to state that Freddy Williams is riding better than lie ever did in his life. His debut on the flat last back end seems to have been of the greatest help to him. He is a better waiter now than he ever was, and has really shined In some of the rides he has put up. It is rumored that a big stable is negotiating for a first call on his services on the flat for 1923. He can ride a good weight 52 kilos and is a deserving, hard-working boy. ONEILL SIGNS AGAIN. While speaking of the jockeys it will interest your readers to know ONeill remains with Macomber, and Jeff Cohn has second call once more, so the proposed retirement is a thing of the past, it would seem. McGeo is once again with Edouard de Rothschild, Garner is with the Aga Khan, Cormack with Veil Picard, Haynes with Pierre Wertheimcr and Eugene Leigh and Winkfield with Mantacheff. Have not heard if Crump is remaining with Gould or not. Keogh, of course, will arrive this month to ride for Widener, and will probably find French racing to his liking, as all the other American riders have. After nearly thirty years training the Rothschild horses and winning Grand Prixs and all the other classics, James Watson has retired, and his brother, Frank, for many years his second, will be in full charge. Everybody will miss Jim Watson, as he was well liked, and a very high-class man, and a capable one. He certainly deserves his retirement, which, it is rumored, has been made attractive for him by Baron Edouard. MACOMBER DIVIDES STRING. The Macomber yearlings are in two lots this year, or rather for next year. The colts are with Tom Murphy at Saint Louis da Poissy, and the fillies are under the care of Galen Brown at Lamorlaye in the old Herman Duryea place. There must be fully twenty in the later bunch. They were inspected by A. B. Hancock on his visit to France. Rumor about Chantilly credits Brown with a very smart filly in his barn. The Marquis de Saint Saveur and Major Gilroy have gone to Newmarket for the sales beginning on December 4. AVith the pound flirting around sixty-six, if French breeders make English purchases at such a rate they are certainly game. Frank ONeill and McGee, with their families, will be leaving on December 20 for Saint Moritz to spend the winter. The English jockeys will join them there after the holidays. Julius Fleischmann spent three weeks in Paris, and was a constant visitor at the races. He seemed greatly impressed witli French racing, and while comparisons are difficult he thought Blues and Africander 1 would have registered wins all right
