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TURF GOSSIP FROM FRANCE -♦ American Trainer Slow to Begin Winning as Season Starts Off. Jerry Welsh First to Saddle a Winner Ibis Year — Ma otnlier Two-Year-Old* Highly Regarded, lint Three-Year-Olds Are Poor. ♦ Special Correspondence. PARIS, France, March 31. — For the past week we have been favored with the most beautiful spring weather. Pacing t.nd;-r such conditions has been ideal as xvell as interesting. Banter is tomorrow, anel ov-r 11." holidays all who can get away to the coonr try are doing so. but there will be plenty for the opening of Bongchamps April 20. The got-d horses are entered there libially for the first day. An opt r. winter h.is allowed the trainers to go along x th their best. So far the American trainets have- ne.t had much success and Jerry Welsh is the first of the lot this seas in t. xx.iit in the winn -rs ring for his horse to be unsaddled. Day before yesterday at St. Clow* he started the VVidener three-year-olds maiden colt Ravaillae. by Rabeiais— LAdorab.c . i:t a race at a mile and five-sixteenths. Kcegh had him away nicely, and always ha i -iim placed BB about fourth position behin.! tin-pae-c . In the stretch he movtu into th lenJ and after an interesting "set-to" with George Stern on a Marcel Boussac good thing won by a half length. KKOtiHS FIRST FRKMH WIN. it was his first win in franc* and everybody in the enclosure greet.-. I him aha t-t cordially. Keogh tells me he likes it t re men dously over here, and that everybody has been most kind to him. and he only hopes he can have the chance to ride some nice winners in the red and xvhite stripes and black cap of the Philadelphia sportsman. Murphy is quite recover! and has been at the races -with some of tie M.ic.miber three-year-olds. They haxc ran poulv and do not seem promising Joed reports, however, are about concerning the tx -year dels in this stable. Duke has run one third so far. His track Saint Illiers has started twice, but in *.re heavy going, and it is not to his liking. "Gene" Leigh won at BngbJen the other day with one of his old horses, ridden by Freddy Williams, over the jumps. It was not expected, as the price returned xvas 16 to 1. In this connection Jerry Welsh, the ■ante day started Saint Pancras oxer the hurdles and fancied his chan.-es. The Wide-ner noise jumped well and after meeting with interference from the winner over the last jump and in the run home was beaten by the shortest of heads. The Frank Hitchcock colors were the first of the American ones to score here this season in tiie First Optional at St. Cloud. Tin-xx inner. Feu dc Giel. by Son-in-Law. will be heard from again. Jefferson D. Cohns stable is in form. Den-man has been winning and running into the plae-es with some of the Teddy tillies and colts. He is fortunate with a second call on Frank ONeill that the Macomber three-year-olds at present are not formidable. In this way our hading jockey is able to apjeear in the cerise and black regularly. Freddy Williams is in great demand and is riding on the flat better than he ever did on the jumping courses, in my opinion. Everybody is pleased, as he is sueh a well-behaved and serious rider. He has three and four mounts every day. I saw the Due Decazes a few days ago. He is slowly improving. He has been moved from his own house to that of his aunts, the Princess tie Polignac. in the avenue; Henri Martin, as her house has a garden terrace, which alloxvs his bed to be moved cut into the sun. ENJOYED YOSBlIKiH ARTKI.KS. He told me that he had greatly enjoyed reading the Yosburgh articles about the Kentucky stock farms, especially the one-relating the doings of his old favorites, Irine-e Palatine and Negofol. 1 might say that there are a couple of good Prime Palatine three-year-olds her.. He did not get many fcals. but what an average of xvinners he sired! It seems that the racing season is really on when one begins to talk about Deau villi-, xxhich opened up his Normandy Hotel for Ranter and will not close. The Casino is open tor the holidays over Easter and will remain so until April 5. The Grande Conde at Chantilly has not a room free over the- "fete." so all that is needed is a further spell of the wonderful weather we have been having. Tin she.ps are full of chocolate eggs and "poisson dAxiil." whieh one is alxvays expected to send their friends this s.-ason of the year ; the fioxver markets an- flooded xvith flowers, and the tables on the boulevards are crowded, so Paris looks to be in its best this fine spring day. + ,
