566 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



year, had been picked up cheap in Newmarket by Jennings. Neither Dragon nor 

 Rouge Dragon had justified the odds taken about them. The Franco-German War 

 was a severe shock to our neighbours' breeding, and Dangu, the birthplace of 

 Gladiateur, never seemed to recover from its Prussian occupation. Count Lagrange, 

 who had been hard hit, leased his horses to M. Lefevre, who raced as " Mr. 

 Lombard" in England, and was well known to Lord James of Hereford in connection 

 with the Honduras Loan. M. Delamarre's entry in the Derby of 1871 can hardly 

 count, for like M. Lefevre's Ravenshoe and Drummond, it was born and bred and 

 trained in England. The former sportsman's Condor was an outsider. But the 

 Count de Juigne's Montargis was a very different animal in 1873. Though he failed 

 in the Derby, he won 70,000 English sovereigns in the Cambridgeshire. Boiard was 

 perhaps a better stayer, for he beat our Derby winner in the Grand Prix, and won 

 the Ascot Cup next year. It was M. Lefevre who bought Ecossais, of whom I have 

 already spoken. He lost the Derby of 1874. Braconnier came over with a great 

 reputation in 1876, and though he won the Jockey Club Cup later on, he was only- 

 tenth in Kisbers Derby, one of the best winners ever seen. In the next year 

 Chamant and Jongleur, both French, were perhaps as good as any of their age alive. 

 The latter took another Cambridgeshire across the Channel, and beat the big 

 Verneuil as a two-year-old for the Criterion. Chamant, who was a son of Mortcmcr, 

 a winner of the Ascot Cup, won the Two Thousand very easily, and was thought 

 by Lord Falmouth to be a stone better than the Derby winner Si/vio. In 1878, by 

 which date Jennings had been for two years again in the service of his old master, 

 Insulatre won the French Derby, but was second at Epsom and for the Grand 

 Prix, returning to beat the winner of the Oaks at Ascot. In 1879 the strapping, 

 overgrown Rayon d'Or, beaten for the Two Thousand and Derby, made the whole 

 of the running and won the St. Leger in smashing style. It was a splendid finish to 

 Count Lagrange's racing career. The Frenchman had won the Prix du Jockey Club 

 no fewer than eight times. His Canidlia (One Thousand and divided the Oaks) 

 Verne^lil, and Zut are among many of his horses which will long be remembered in 

 England. M. Lefevre's Tristan in the Derby of 1881 was bred by Lord Rosslyn, and 

 Ladislas in St. Blaises year was English bred. In Melton s Derby the Frenchmen 

 were all betting on M. Lupin's Xaintrailles, who finished fourth, below his true form. 

 In 1889 M. Blanc's Clover, who had won the French Derby, broke down in our race. 

 But his Goitverneur and Reverend were only beaten by Common for the Derby and 

 St. Leger of 1891. The next year his Bnccntanrc was third to Sir Hugo, and 



