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very good prizes are contended for, and the 

 horses trained and ridden by English grooms 

 and jockeys. The principal ones of France 

 are those of Paris and Chantilly, and that 

 of Belgium, Brussels, at which prizes worth 

 contending for are given ; and at the first 

 named place there are two meetings in each 

 year, namely, in May and September. Each 

 of these countries also has its Jockey Club 

 and Racing Calendar \ and some idea may 

 be formed of the interest taken by the 

 nobility and gentry, to whom such matters 

 are at present confined the betting man, 

 or leg, not having yet made his debut on 

 the continent in their contests for the palm 

 of honour, by the fact of there having been 

 nearly twelve thousand pounds betted on 

 the event of the Jockey Club plate (won 

 by Lord Henry Seymour's Frank) at the 

 Chantilly races in April last. 



The principal breeders of thorough-bred 

 horses in France are his Royal Highness 

 the Duke of Orleans, and Lord Henry 

 Seymour, second son to the Marquis of 

 Hertford, each of whom has a large breeding- 

 stud at about three leagues distant from 

 Paris, and stables for training in the Bois 



