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FRENCH STABLES BACKWARD Cold Weather Interferes Seriously With Training Program at Paris Race Courses. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, France, March 7. We had a mild January and part of February so that trainers were going along at a fairly good pace. Horses were working out of doors and it looked as if everything would be ready for the start of the flat season on March 14. Winter fairly started the middle of last month. The rides froze up and some of the trainers in the town of Chantilly who are obliged to walk their horses along the streets to reach the forest were unable to get out many times in the past couple of weeks. The result has been that horses were stopped and they will not be so ready as was expected when the bell rings. Denman has been able to keep Sir Galahad III. going. The horse is well and will be ready and should come near winning the Lincolnshire. If he wins, the French will have some English pounds for he has had plenty of support Eugene Leigh, Epinard, Haynes and his new baby aro all well. Whether it was the intention to send Epinard for the Lincolnshire or not of course nobody knows. If people backed him lliey did so at their own risk. Pierre Wcrtheimer stated publicly that it would depend upon the weather. AVhen they found it did not break they scratched the horse. Leigh has some useful looking two-year-olds. AVhen he started in showing them ho said in that quaint way of his: "Now I am going to show you some pretty good-looking two-year-olds and they only cot small money, too,"
