564 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



at the start for the Hunt Cup next day ; but he knew her little ways better than any- 

 one else, as all the other jockeys recognised. Again, it was Fordham's horsemanship 

 on Lectiirer which beat her in the Gold Cup, her third race at the meeting. 



We are accustomed nowadays to seeing foreigners not only enter for our best 

 sporting events, but even win them. On the Turf we have had Mr. Richard Ten 

 Broeck, Mr. Pierre Lorillard with Iroqiiois, Mr. Keene with Foxhall, Mr. William 

 C. Whitney with Volodyovski, and others from the United States ; the Germans 

 won the Cambridgeshire of 1854; Baron Petroffski's Vision (bred in Russia) appeared 

 at Newmarket three years afterwards ; Kisber and Galopin were the property of 

 Hungarians ; the best mare they ever sent from the Kisber stud was Kincsem, in 

 1878, who won the Goodwood Cup among her many victories. She held an 

 unbeaten record, and won thirty-six races off the reel before she came to England, 

 four being walk-overs. After Goodwood she won the Grand Prix de Deauville, and 

 the Grand Prize at Baden-Baden. She was a little like Virago, standing over i6'i, 

 and "as long as a boat." She was a granddaughter of Newminster, bred in 1874, 

 by Cambuscan out of Water Nymph, and proved a valuable brood mare when at last 

 she was given a rest by M. Blascovitz, whose colours she carried. Her grandson 

 ffazafi won the Royal Handicap at Sandown in 1903 under the same jacket, which 

 is a curious coincidence. This colt was by Orwell (brother to Ornament, the dam of 

 Sceptre) out of Ollyan Nines by Buccaneer (sire of Kisber, who won both Derby and 

 Grand Prix easily) out of Kincsem. From France we know the names of Count 

 Lagrange, M. Caillault, M. Abeille, M. Aumont, M. Edmond Blanc, M. C. Blanc, 

 M. de Bremond, M. Lupin, and M. Lefevre. But never before had a foreigner created 

 so much sensation as when Count Lagrange's Gladiateiir was trained by Jennings 

 for the Derby. When M. Lupin's Jouvence and Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild's 

 Baroncino won the Goodwood Cup in 1853 and 1855, they were carrying over a 

 stone less than the English horses of their own age, a fair indication of the opinion 

 we held at the time of French racing-stables. In 1857 the same race was especially 

 exciting from the fact that besides Monarque (the sire of Gladiateur] there were 

 Mr. Ten Broeck's Prior and Prioress, and M. Lupin's Florian, in a field of fourteen, 

 which included the famous Fisherman, and will always be remembered for the 

 scrimmage created by the fall of Gunboat on the hill. It was won by Monarque ; 

 but though it was far from being his only success on this side, no one imagined 

 he was to sire a Derby winner. He came from the Aumont stables, which were 

 bought by Count Lagrange, and also contained Mademoiselle de Cliantilly, who won 



