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FOREIGN TURF NOTES The Hoppengarten race track in Berlin Germany is a fight hand course of one and onequarter miles with a seveneighths straight in addition The stands are modern and of great capacity Most of the betting is done by parimutuels and sixteen per cent is deducted Karlshort only twenty minutes from the city is one of the most attractive tracks in Germany GermanyThe The famous meeting at BadenBaden is held in August and on August 4 the Brown Ribbon of Germany the most valuable race in the country open to horses of all coun ¬ tries wll be run runFelicitation Felicitation Aga Khans Ascot Gold Cup winner of last year may not start in that race this year in fact he may never race again as he strained a tendon in a leg badly during the running of the Yorkshire Cup CupR R J Duggans Smokeless a bay filly by Prince Galahad Smoke Lass won the Irish One Thousand Guineas at The Curragh on May 29 29The The opening of the Polish racing season had to be postponed to May 11 because of heavy snowfall snowfallCagliostro Cagliostro winner of the Hungarian Derby and St Leger of 1934 won the Prize of Mil ¬ lenium Hungarys most valuable weight forage race worth about 9000 and a beau ¬ tiful trophy The winner was ridden by Vic ¬ tor Esch one of the most successful of Hungarian jockeys who has ridden six Austrian and four Hungarian Derby win ¬ ners nersJames James Hennessy one of the stewards at Longchamps France is a member of the worldwide known family whose famous Three Star Hennessy is acknowledged among brandies has won practically every big turf prize in France and is the only owner who has won the English Grand Na ¬ tional with a Frenchbred horse Lutteur III IIIEnglish English sportsmen were grieved to learn of the death on Friday May 31 of Capt Sidney Galtrey widely known as Hotspur the racing correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph and turf writer of marked ability He was fiftysix years of age and was the author of an interesting book called The Horse and the War published in 1918 1918An An Egyptian owner named Cozzika is meeting with a fair measure of success on the French turf and on May 31 at St Cloud had the pleasure of winning two races on the same day
