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Royal countenance which is one reason of the immense 

 prestige enjoyed by the Club. And the substitution 

 of 'Emperor's Plate ' for 'Ascot Gold Cup,' from 1845 

 to 1853 (both inclusive), before the days of Sir Hamil- 

 ton Seymour, the Emperor Nicholas, the talk about 

 'the Sick Man,' and the siege of Sevastopol, bears 

 witness (as also the Cesarewitch and the Grand Duke 

 Michael Stakes testify) to Russian co-operation and 

 encouragement in the cause of British horse-racing. 

 Of the personages with the foreign titles of Prince, 

 Count, and Baron, Prince Batthyany — who died sud- 

 denly at Newmarket, just after the race for the Two 

 Thousand in 1883 — was, like Prince Soltykoff, who is 

 still among us, to all intents and purposes an English 

 sportsman, having been on the English Turf from 

 1829, and a member of the Jockey Club since about 

 1859, and won the Derby with the famous racehorse 

 and sire Galopin (sire of St. Simon, bred by the 

 Prince, though Galopin was not), in 1875. Count de 

 Berteux, of the Cheffreville Stud, Normandy, is one of 

 the very best customers English breeders of blood-stock 

 have ever had. Count Tasselo Festetics is understood 

 to be brother-in-law to the Duke of Hamilton, excel- 

 lent credentials for a member (honorary) of the Jockey 

 Club. Count F. de Lagrange was as well known in 

 this country as in his own (and perhaps better) as a 

 breeder, owner, and runner of horses — especially of 

 Fille de l'Air and Gladiateur. Baron de Teissier was 

 English in all but his name and title (one of a French 



