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PARIS RACING SEASON ON Opening at Auteuil February 15 Marred by Unfinished Work Unusual Triple Completed When Three ThreeHorses Horses by Same Sire Hidden ny Same SameRider Rider and from Same Stable Score SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCEPARIS PARIS France February 16 The 1923 racing season around Paris opened yesterday at Auteuil Much disappointment and sur ¬ prise was expressed over the unfinished work on the new stands In fact since the closing last December to the untrained specialist it seems as if little progress has been made The same scaffolding the same boardings and the same obstructions exist now as then in the pesage pesageThe The reason given is that the builders have run up against a snag in the clay soil of the Butte Montemart Hundreds of concrete piles will have to be sunk before the stands can be started seriously To complete it for the spring season is absolutely impossible and it will be the autumn before the jubilee of the Steeplechase Society can be held heldWhat What discomfort will be felt for the big week here this spring at Auteuil can be im ¬ agined The going was heavy yesterday but the fields were good and the racing in ¬ teresting though no cracks were running so j early in the season seasonA A most peculiar hat trick was accom ¬ plished The second third and fourth races were won by horses trained by Barillier ridden by Barre and the sire of each winner was the stallion Kummel KummelMANY MANY KEG UL AKS ON HAND HANDThe The same familiar faces were seen in the paddock among the regulars although many of the smart people are still on the Riviera Auteuil and Enghien will alternate three times a week until the middle of March when j St Cloud will start the real season of French racing on the fiat fiatSince Since last summer that popular sportsman j the Due Decazci lias been ailing He tried a cure at Vitel and was most faithful while there in July and August He was more or less ill all fall and on New Years day took to his bed and has not since left his room He is suffering from neuritis in its most severe form Two weeks ago everybody was alarmed about him himThe The doctors cay that unless some compli ¬ cations come the danger is passed but it will be a long siege He is suffering terribly As a tonic Rambour won him the Grand Prix at Nice I saw him the next day and he was greatly pleased and as a further panacea LYscr look the Grand Prix at Pau for him but it did not mean so much as he had just had three particularly bad days daysWith With an account of Murphys illness we will be able to get back to the horses A week ago at Poissy Murphy noticed that his throat and tongue had begun swelling He tried some home remedies and when no improve ¬ ment showed he sent to the American hospi ¬ tal at Ncuilly to consult the surgeons They found an abscess at the base of his tongue and decided to operate operateAs As all his friends in America know he is a great user of tobacco The hospital staff has decided that he in some way has been poisoned by it and infection set in He is coming along nicely and the surgeons do not think anything more than quiet and rest will be required requiredAVe AVe have had a mild winter and if the time his Indian Prince reaches here he will have them pretty well classified classifiedSaint Saint Illiers has wintered well and I think can be more seriously considered for a dis ¬ tance than the Sundridge crack of last sea ¬ son Niceas NiceasJerry Jerry Welsh has been in real winter quar ¬ ters His horses are looking big rough and healthy healthyGene Gene Leigh says Epinard has wintered well and as Haynes is back from his vaca ¬ tion in the States things around the Wert heimer stable will soon be active McGee re Coutiiiuud oil twelfth page PARIS RACING SEASON ON Contimieil from first pace turns from his winter sports in Swjtzerland tomorrow and Frank ONeill will not be many days behind him himKeogh Keogh who is riding out every day at Chantilly says he finds it all right over here It is rather remarkable to find him so well versed in French pedigrees and racing Tom Welsh must have given him the key to his libarary which he took back from Chantilly to Belmont Park ParkI I have just come back from a visit to sev ¬ eral of the haras in Normandy Things are well advanced there The grass is particu ¬ larly green and I saw quite a few foals out in the paddocks with their dams in the middle of the day when the sun was up From upFrom Beaulieu on the Riviera word comes that Bellhouse is making slow progress after the fall he had last year He still is par ¬ tially paralyzed and there is no chance he can do any riding this season Jean Prat is on account of his illness without a jockey and the BallUHitchcock stable will also be without Bellhouses services servicesWhen When I tell you that Winkfield and Sam Bush are busy with the Mantacheff horses and that indications point to the stables be ¬ ing ready I have about covered the American horse colony here hereOne One thing more the prediction sent you last fall about lac former Rothschild trainer James Watson was not far from the mark He is in charge now of half the Jeff Cohn horses Denman of course has the other half And about the other predictions all trainers under suspension have their certifi ¬ cates back except Flatman whose case soon comes irp in the courts
