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suspicion about his wind. Mr. Jones, his breeder, was 

 a farmer near Ely. When Prince Charlie pulled up 

 after winning the Criterion, he ran up excitedly to 

 Tom French and asked, " Does he make a ' noise ' ? " 

 " Does he make a noise? " rejoined the jockey, pointing 

 to the old gentleman, " he does not make half so much 

 noise as you do." He ran twice at two years of age, 

 winning the Middle Park Plate and the Criterion, 

 in the latter of which he beat Cremorne, as he did in 

 the Two Thousand Guineas. In the Derby, however, 

 Cremorne turned the table upon his Rowley Mile 

 conqueror. In handicaps over the T.Y.C., Prince 

 Charlie would give three stones and a beating to horses 

 of his own age. About 74 our Gaelic neighbours were 

 very jubilant over the victories of some French over 

 English horses. Still more were they cock-a-whoop 

 when Peut-Etre won the Cambridgeshire and took an 

 enormous sum of money across the Channel. A bom- 

 bastic challenge was issued by the Frenchmen to run 

 any horse at weight for age at a mile, or any three-year- 

 old at even weights. This was taken up for Prince 

 Charlie, the match being for 500 a-side. It was run 

 over the Rowley Mile, on the last day of the Houghton 

 Meeting of 1874. Tom French was now dead, and the 

 steering of Prince Charlie was entrusted to Parry. 

 Peut-Etre, who had beaten forty-one horses in the 

 Cambridgeshire, was ridden by Tom Chaloner. When 

 Prince Charlie gave " Mr. Frenchman " a most decisive 

 beating there was a scene of tremendous enthusiasm 

 on the Heath. Mr. Jones jumped on Prince Charlie's 

 back and rode him back through the town, the excited 

 crowd following and cheering in the most frantic 

 manner. For a season Prince Charlie looked like making 

 a great name for himself at the stud; then winners 



