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Show WILL TAKE JUMPERS OVER TO FRANCE Jockey Patsy Freeman, who for several years has been riding In France with marked success and has just returned to , America from that country, will not go back next year. Freeman has the backing of a French Count to put Into "execution a unique fccheme. He will busy himself the coming season looking for h.gh-class horses which show the quaiificalions for develonins; into good jumpers and return to France in 1LXKS with a string of horses with which he hopes to capture many Important races run off between the flags. Freeman says there 4s great opening In that country for sucn iivrsi i. in i-ai racing he belie'ves the French horses are the peer of either the English or American Ameri-can performers, but the better horses there are never trained for jumpers and Kny performer which possesses enough quality to win on the flat is never trained to hurdle or steeplechase, A good seliir.g plater in this country properly schooled, .he says, could beat any horse he saw race in France over the Jurnps this year, and this in face of the fact that in that country the purses hung up for such events are equal to many stakes in this country, for which the best horses in the land do battle. |