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GOSSIP OF FRENCH RACING Constant Rains Drench Training Courses in Paris District Fields at Aiilcnil Steeplechase Feeling Ex ¬ ceptionally Small Kpjnarcl Wintered Well and Will Be Heady for Early Campaign SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCEPARIS PARIS France March 9 With continual rain and mild weather the Seine is high and there is every chance that the races scheoV uled next week at MaisonsLafitte vill have to be transferred to SL Cloud unless the weather clears clearsThe The trainers strings at Chantilly and the other training tracks are regularly drenched every day We have been racing at Auteuil but the fields are small and one race yes ¬ terday was canceled as no horses were pre ¬ sented in the paddock to compete competeThere There are two reasons for the small num jer of runners at this course now In the irst place the purses are reduced owing o the enormous expense the Steeplechase I Society is being put to in remodeling the plant and then as a second reason the going has been awful on account of the rain rainAt At Compiegne on the first day of the sea ¬ son there March 7 such fields had never been seen before at this little country meet ¬ ing One race had twelve runners another had fifteen and the military race it was necessary to run in two parts partsOn On Monday March 12 the flat racing in the Paris district begins at St Cloud Owing to the mild winter trainers are pretty well advanced and better quality horses will be starting the racing season earlier than is generally the case case3IUJIPHT 3IUJIPHT FULLY RECOVERED RECOVEREDThere There is not much news to send at present Murphy is once more at Poissy and quite recovered from his operation He has sent some entries to Nice and Frank ONeill and the horses are now there for the opening of the flat racing on the Riviera on March 11 and Baron Edouard de Rothschild will also be represented McGee being in charge They will all return here after the races on the opening day but hardly in time for St Cloud unless goodGene the train connections are good Gene Leigh was on the train goin Normandy the other day and he told me that Epinard had wintered finely He was hopeful of a good season A few days after ¬ ward I went down on the same train again and Saint Alary and Peter Gilpin were in my compartment They were going to the formers haras Comrade is there and Gilpin naturally while in France wanted to see his former Grand Prix winner winnerThis This Newmarket trainer was most compli ¬ mentary in his remarks about his jockey Archibald He rates him highly highlyAVIDKXEIl AVIDKXEIl 3IARE FOALS COLT COLTReports Reports from the various haras tell of plenty of foals One interesting one last week was the J E AVidener mare Lisette IX a granddaughter of Fairy Gold and herself the dam of the threeyearold Lizard foaling a colt to Sardanapale This 1923 youngster is a brother in blood to the crack Boussac filly Zariba ZaribaSpeaking Speaking of this Philadelphia sportsmans horses I might mention that Keogh is hard at work at Chantilly galloping his stables lot and also those of other owners He has been approached to sign a second call with a prominent owner but prefers to for the present be a free lance after his own stables mounts This seems like good judgment on his part partRobert Robert K Cassatt has been a regular at the Auteuil races and Sonny AVhitney and his fiancee also were racing previous to the wedding which took place March 5 quietly in Paris ParisAV AV R Coe was here also for a short time on his way to the Riviera This gives you about all the personal gossip for the moment With the beginning of flat racing there will be more of interest to send you youThe I The Due Decazcs is still ill His con ¬ I dition is always just about the same and he is having a long and painful illness
