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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



In his first trial as a yearling at Chantilly he was beaten by Le Mandarin, on 

 whom Jennings won a new hat. But Count Lagrange remained unshaken in his 

 belief in his favourite. The difficulties of training him were the greatest triumphs 

 of Jennings' career, and it was in trying to get a line as to the other three-year-old 

 form that Argences, his stable companion, was beaten for the Newmarket Biennial 

 by Kangaroo, soon afterwards to be sold to Lord Hastings for .12,000, probably 

 the worst bargain ever made before the present craze for fashionable yearlings. By 

 a combination of skill and good fortune rarely equalled, Gladiateur reached Epsom 



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" Gladiateur" by Monarque" (1862). 



(after winning the Two Thousand) as fit as he ever was in his life, and his Derby 

 trial was one of the best ever run ; for he gave his owner's Fille de FAir (who had 

 won the last Oaks) a year and 81bs., and 35lbs. to each of two other four-year-olds, 

 and beat them all easily. There was a moment, however, of extreme agitation in 

 the Derby, for which a bad field of twenty-eight came to the post. When they 

 neared the Bell, Christmas Carol seemed to be winning from E It ham at the head of 

 all the other horses. Gladiateur, on the high ground and full of running, was being 

 hard held by Grimshaw, who was too short-sighted to see what was happening on 



