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the French Oaks and the City and Suburban at Epsom the following year. Tom 

 Jennings looked after the Count's stable at Newmarket, while his brother cared 

 for the French brigade at Compiegne. The running of Hospodar, Stradella, and 

 Jarnicoton (whom the Ring called "Darning-cotton") did not make the stable 

 popular in England, and when Fille de FAir won the Oaks there was a disgraceful 

 riot, though similarly in-and-out running has been well known, in the case of mares, 

 both before and since. Gladiateiir changed all that, and with the usual swift 

 reversal of popular feeling, it was then imagined that the English Turf was going 

 to the dogs. 



But French owners were far from having produced such an effect, any more 

 than they did when the 

 Due de Chartres ran an 

 English-bred horse for 

 the Derby of 1784, 

 or, as Due d'Orleans, 

 entered a son of High- 

 flyer two years later. 

 In spite of the horrors 

 of 1789 and 1790 in 

 his own country, the 

 Due was running about 

 a dozen horses on this 

 side, until he was guil- 

 lotined soon afterwards. 

 From that time his 



fate seems to have exercised so discouraging an influence that no French horse 

 appeared till in 1860 Dangn finished fourth in Thormanbys Derby at 200 to i, 

 after travelling over from the French Derby. The next year Count Lagrange 

 ran the handsome Royallieu, who came in sixth ; and by the time Hospodar (by 

 Monarque] had won the Clearwell and the Criterion, we had begun to imagine that 

 there might be something in a French horse after all, especially when Marignan and 

 Cosmopolite (a Lanercost horse) did so well at Newmarket, the latter being a wonder 

 over six furlongs, or when Palestro and Gabrielle d'Estrees had run first and second 

 for the Cambridgeshire of 1861, an especial triumph for Jennings. But Gladiatcur 

 seemed to mark the zenith of the Count's fortunes. Plutus, who ran in Lord Lyons 



" Fille de FAir" by " Foig-a-Ballagh " (1861). 



