RACING IN FRANCE 229 



wards ; and English owners have taken advantage of 

 the opportunity, for Mr. Wallace Johnstone's Best 

 Man was successful in 1894, and Winkfield's Pride 

 won in 1897. 



The distances of races are usually longer in France 

 than in England, a commendable state of affairs. 

 Ten furlongs is a very frequent course, and the five 

 and six furlong scrambles, so popular with English 

 clerks of courses, and, it must be presumed, with 

 English owners also, are extremely rare. One race 

 at Longchamps, the Prix Gladiateur, is run over a 

 distance of three miles seven furlongs, for a stake of 

 ^1,200, and an objet d'art worth ;^400. 



Flat racing, as with us, finishes in November, but 

 cross-country sport is vigorously continued at Auteuil, 

 Vincennes, Enghien, Maisons Laffitte, and other 

 places, until close on Christmas, when the racing 

 world moves south to Marseilles, Nice, and Pau, 

 to resume operations around Paris in the middle of 

 February. 



