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among English owners to take vengeance for their 

 losses by a descent upon Jerome Park). Then, at 

 length, the Club was roused to action, and passed a 

 resolution which rather contributed than not to make 

 the French mare Tenebreuse win the Cesarewitch of 

 1888, and turned the laugh against the proposer. 

 The Jockey Club had, so to speak, to eat its own 

 words. 



Of course reciprocity is to be desired, if only for 

 the look of the thing ; but for a perfectly equitable 

 reciprocity there should be something like equal con- 

 ditions on both sides. The arena on which the 

 championship of the world is decided must be open to 

 all comers ; but it does not follow that every smaller 

 arena, whence competitors come thither to achieve a few 

 successes at long intervals, is bound to ' reciprocate ' 

 at the risk of having all its prizes won by strangers. 

 At any rate, the Jockey Club would do well to think 

 twice before they pass measures which, debarring the 

 French from our courses, would keep their subscrip- 

 tions from swelling our stakes, their owners from 

 training in England, and employing hundreds of 

 'hands,' and their purchasers from buying in our 

 market (either because they would no longer have to 

 contend against our breed of horses, and would be 

 content with their own ; or because they would take 

 our action as a proof that their horses were as good 

 as ours, else we should not be afraid of them). Lord 

 Stamford and Warrington, as we have seen, showed 



