Show AMERICAN TRAINER TO FRONT ON GERMAN TURf Me Memphis Mans Record So Good That Prejudice Against Yankees Again Crops Out Memphis Tenn Jan is 18 be belIeved believed to be an International record for successful training of thoroughbred race racehorses racehorses horses has been Jeen complied compiled in Germany GermanT according to statistics just arriving In this country and shows an American In pos possession session of the rather remarkable achieve achievement achievement ment of having prepared horses that have won marks In six seasons ot of campaigning on the German and Austrian race courses COUrBes This credit belongs longs to George Walker r who has just returned to his home In Memphis after winning almost every turf classic In Germany In the course couTie of six years ears The German statistics show Walker trained horses In possession ot of marks but Walkers own record places the total at the lower figures c named Two triumphs In the German Derby a pair of victories In the grand prix of Ba Baden Baden den and two futurities Of the German turf were won by Walker tn in the course COUrs of his work for the Weinberg Brothers Such valuable prizes as the kaisers shield shielda shield shielda a trophy offered by the German emperor and classics were won and Amen Ameri American can may marvel In the figures when as the German statistics Uca show there Is but a short season on the German Ger German man turf e each ch year rarely extending to more than a total of racIng days das IiI in a year making opera operations operations extend over but a possible days In six years Walker Valker has a trophy troph room well supplied here with silver cups tea sets seta plates and other souvenirs awarded by sentimental Germans to the trainer of the successful horse Two Derby Winners Walker was the first American to win wina a German Derby With Fels he won on the German Derby ot of 1906 1900 and repeated In 1901 with Desir American jockeys and American assistants In almost ever re respect respect shared In Walkers success as wn Wil lie Shaw had the mount on Desir while Winnie OConnor piloted Fels The wonderful record made by the Americans has not been attained In Ger Germany Germany many however without the usual results According to Information reaching here the same prejudice that existed In the days das of the British turf when Tad Tod Sloan and other American jockeys jockey and trainers s were reaping golden harvests has cropped out In the and so 80 great Is thE feeling against the Yankee Invasion that Walker may not return to Germany an another another other season |