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days after this, at Longchamps, comes another valua- 

 ble race for three-year-olds, the Prix Hocquart Pro- 

 duce Stake. This was won in 1897 by Canvass 

 Back — a colt that has since distinguished himself as 

 a hurdle racer in England — and was worth ^2,190. 

 At the next meeting at Maisons Laffitte, the Prix 

 Boiard for three-year-olds is ^2,000 in value. 



There is a Biennial for three-year-olds at Long- 

 champs, well over ^1,200, and other good races run in 

 April are the Prix du Cadran for four-year-olds, which 

 was worth ^1,600 in 1897, and the Prix Noailles, a 

 Produce Stake, for three-year-olds, worth at the least 

 ^2,000, as well as the two other Produce Stakes, the 

 Prix Greffulhe and Daru. 



The One Thousand Guineas and Two Thousand 

 Guineas, the Prix d'Essai des Pouliches and des 

 Poulaines are consecutive races, run at Longchamps 

 early in May. The former credited Roxelane in 1897 

 with ^3,196. The companion race, in which Indian 

 Chief just beat Doge, who subsequently won the 

 Grand Prix, was worth just under ^3,000. About 

 a week later the Prix Daru, for three-year-olds, 

 amounts to over ^2,000 ; the Prix La Rochette (second 

 year), and the Prix Reiset, also for three-year-olds, 

 over a distance of a furlong short of two miles — the 

 Grand Prix course in fact — credit winning owners with 

 considerably more than half as much. 



About the middle of May the Prix Lupin — it will 

 be seen that many of the races are named after well- 



