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belong to the extant records of early horse-racing 

 in France under the rules of the French Jockey 

 Club. 



Among the American importations were Abjer 

 (son of Old Truffle), second to Sailor for 

 the tempestuous Derby of 1820; Barefoot (son 

 of Tramp), winner of the St. Leger in 1823 ; 

 Serab (son of Phantom), that cost the Duke of 

 Cleveland (Lord Darlington) 3,000 guineas, won 

 the Newmarket Stakes in 1824, and won the 

 King's Plate at York in 1826 against the great 

 Lottery (ex Tinker, by Tramp) ; but our American 

 cousins found him ' impotent,' and have inscribed 

 the fact on his escutcheon ; and Valentine, alias 

 Tommy Longlegs, son of Magistrate. 



The conspicuous Russian importations (which 

 had already included black Trophonius, winner of 

 the Two Thousand, Moscow, and Segany, all by 

 Sorcerer, to say nothing of Symmetry, winner of 

 the St. Leger in 1798) took Nectar and Inter- 

 preter, winners of the Two Thousand, as well as, 

 according to some authorities, Antar, and Mr. 

 Astley's Magic (son of Sorcerer) in 1820, besides 

 Lord Lowther's Bourbon (son of Sorcerer), and 

 Mr. Tibbits's Pericles (sonof Evander) in 182 1, and 



