The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-31
Ccopyright 1914 by Curtis Brown)

n | man sport is rapidly becoming H Americanized. Three American
 Es51 athletic trainefs are busy show
 ing German athletes how 10 win the
 Olympic games of 1916 and now the
 Kaiser himself, the crown prince and
 the heads of most of the princely and
 grand ducal houses are complaining that
 American trainers and jockeys are carry
 ing off all the big prizes of the German
 turf
 Of the s750000 i'll stakes offered last
 year. on the race courses of this country
 only Sl4o.Ooo was won by owners of noble
 birth. All the rest was captured by the
 brand new millonsires bankers and brok-
 CTS, mostly with the assistance of Ameri-
 can trainers and riders. One, Baron von
 Oppenheim, of the famous Cologne bank ing family, with the help of Hyland, an
 American trainer. and Archibald an
 American jockey, woa more than one hundred purses of a total value of S250.- GOO. twice the amount won by Jack Joel.
 the leading, winning owner of the Eng
 fish turf and far in excess of any amount ever won before hy a continental owner.
 Despite all their efforts Germanys S sporting arstocrats cannot win races
 fTtin hdlStl ana Fi0Nn prince down their stud farms and racing stables are failures and the hours of thought and tons of money they sauander all go for naught. Newly rich men have captured the turf; breed the best stock keep the best trainers, jockeys and stable boys and win the best prizes. The year 1913 saw the hopeless collapse on Germany's race courses of the Prussian royal, or other royal, grand ducal, and princely stables. The Kaiser's stable which is at Graditz, in the Prussian province of Saxony. just won fourth place, though it is by far the biggest in Germany
 Tis year things will be worse Kaiser Wilhelm has got few really good 2-year- olds; and he has got ii new trainer, Watts, and the young English jockey Winter. But experts s-ty Kaiser Wilhelm will this year come out sixth or even worse. The crown prince together with his partner and inseparabe friend, Lieu tenant von Zobeltitz, has got a dozen thoroughbreds in training. He is taking racing seriously since he was transferred here from his Danzig exile This year the crown prince will employ professional Jockeys for the first time In the past all his horses have been ridden by of ncers in uniform, with doleful results But on the first day of Strausberg races this spring he produced an unknown Jockey named Wurst, ~hich means saul sage, ana thlS redoubtable sausage rode 10 victory the princes outsider Baby at 20 to l. The prince backed Baby for S25 in the totalisateu and he got back 5000 which he trust nobly into Wurst's hand This is a good omen for the crown princes racing season. but experts say that the prince will have no luck They say he knows how to ride a horse but has no idea of judging one.
 The four rich men who monopolize Ger many's turf, and beat the imperial. royal and grand duca1 horses are all financial or banking magnates from west or south west Germany. They are Baron Alfred von Oppenheim of Cologne, Herr von weinberg of Frankfort -on- Main, Herr R. Haniel and Herr won Schmieder Greatest Of all, in fact Europe's most successful racing man. is Baron Alfred von Oppen- heim, the Cologne multi-mllionaire Op- penheims barony is of recent date. He IS youngish man, and a member of the enormously wealthy Coloene Jewish banking house, Solomon Oppenheim S, Co, and since his fathers death five years ago. he has owned the big stables of schlenderhan near Cologne, and a fortupi$ Of sl2,ooo The Schlenderhan stud- farm and stables were then among Eermanv.s pest. Oppenheim resolved safo make them 2hs9lutely best. and hast season he proved that ne had-.-rtcomplished that aim
 Nearly. a1l the baron's winnings of last year were won by the five horses-Doli,nit Czardas, Majestic. Orchides IT and Ariel.