The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
BELMONT GIVES UP
 HOPE FOR RACING
By RIcuARD DAulGREN

tndL the New 1ork legiSldiufe Houil
 lesstn the restrictions on race track
 betting to an extent which would per init the tracks in that state 10 reopen.
 This they were confident would lead to
 similar action in other states and 10 a revival of racing all over the eoun
 try.
 This hope has vanished and during
 his recent visit to England MT. Bel : mont made arrangements to strengthen
 his English racing stable and expressed the opinion that practically all the first class owners in America would race hereafter almost exclusively in
 France and on the continent.
 The success of MT. Frank J. Gou l in France has been remarkable. It is
 now close race between him and MT.
 w. K Vandervilt for premier honors on the French race tracks. The sue cess of the two Americans will un- douhtedly attract other American own CTS to France.
 It was rather doubtful national vic tory which the athletes of Cambridge and oxford won the other day ov T Havard and Yale.
 It is true the English universities took the meet by five wins to four, but one of the events which went to the credit of the English, the hammer throw was won by G. E. Putnam of Oxford, who Is an American Rhodes scholar from Kansas.
 When looking through volume ot Bells Life" for 1861 I came upon the report of the sales of bloodstock held at New Market by Messrs Tattersa.l during the July meeting fifty years ago There is an instructive lesson herein which the croakers can take .o heart. The highest price then paid for any lot was 2sO guneas, this being given by Lord William Powlett for one of MT. Farrers "Diss" yearlings, brown lilly by Vedette out of Firma- ments dam by Sleight of Hand. year,ing colt, brother to King at Arn.' | by Kingston out of Paradigm, sent ap by Colonel Pearson, was bought in, for l $50 guineas, and this appears to have been the highest bid at the sale. Five horses, the property of Sir Joseph Flaw | lev fetched only 3S2 guneas, although they included Strawberry, mare by the Flying Dutchman out of British Queen by Coronation, with a filly foa. 1 by Beadsman, to whom she was said to be in foal again.
 It was at this July meeting that thc racing and breeding establishment of the late Duke of Bedford was disposed of He read "Messrs. Tattersall had the conduct of the sale, the elder partner presiding at the disposal of the horses l rra he sale of the premises in hand, and the result was, as is always the case when these geitlemen preside. most satisfao- tory, prices being obtained for the bloodstock quste commensurate with their value" Nevertheless, the highes. price realized was TOO guineas for thal slasning fine brood mare Hab bena by | Birdcatcher. MT. Blenkiron was the purchase and she went to Middle Park. Of he late Dukes horses in training. the 3-year-old Cowley by Rochester fetched the highest price, Sir Joseph Hawley going to 510 guineas to secure him. Lord William Powlett gave 5e0 | guipeas for Paste, 3-year-old by Kingston out of Pastrycook. The whole sale, 36 lots realized f7f36. The year ings averaged 166 guineas a-piece. which we read was very satisfactory. and Admiral Ttous, who was the Dukes adviser on the subject of mating his mares was congratulated on his judg ment in his selection of sires. | Tie Rhodes scholars at Oxford have a fine baseball team and are makina the great American game popular in England. They recently defeated the London team by score of II to in snappy well played game. The Lon d nil tfIl n nins, permitting the Oxonians to take f1 [ runs. Outside of this the game was remarkably well played.
 Ram Murti of India astonished a pri vate meeting early in the week by his feats of strength, which included that | of caring a stone weighing 5000 pounds on his chest and rolling it off by expanding his lungs.
 No race course around Paris is more popular than that at Maisons-Laffitte and 1t Is remarkably well managed. u l belongs to the Societe Sportive d En- couragement which took over and de- veloped the suburban race courses that used to be owned by Adolphe Dennetier and M. Porte, the manager of the long ago abolished betting club in the Rue Mogador The present society owns the race courses at Maisons -Laffitte, Si l Ouen, ana f1HBHlen, ana IL WAS Dy lnc | enterprise and foresight of the lat } president, M Eugene Adam. that Maj sons-Laffitte was raised to its present high position. It was he who founded in 1904 the race endowed with over s20,o00 prize money. The object dart which also goes to the owner of the winner in addition to the specie, Is given by the president of the republic, who, as a rule, comes to see the race run.
 In the year of it's initiation the Pri. du President de la Republique was won by M Edmund Blanc with Government, and so far no English horse has maa- aged to get placed. It Is open to B. year odds and upwards of all countries which run at weight-for-age without any penalties or allowances It is therefore, thoroughly sporting eve.. :. | on classic lines, the object being to demonstrate which is actually the best of consolation, a sum of $400O for the owner of the second $20o0 for the third and 5000 for the fourth. The distanc. is about one mile four and half fur . longs. 1t has been won three times by MT W. K. Vanderbilt, with Main . teon, Sea Sick, and Oversight; M. Michel Ephrussi won 1t in 1905 with Finassuer, M Caillaut was successful in 1907 with Querido, after that horse had carried off the Chester cup, and Baron Maurice de Rothschild supplied the winner in 1909 when vedun followed up his Gram Prix victory by annexing this ricl stake
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