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young Due d'Orleans (who should have been the 

 French ' Marcellus '), was one of the most im- 

 portant events of the reign of WiUiam IV., so far 

 as the EngHsh turf is concerned. 



For as early as 1835 or 1836 we find the 

 French, represented by Lord H. Seymour or by 

 Mr. Thomas Carter (whom he had imported as 

 his trainer, and who launched the famous trainer- 

 brothers, Henry and Thomas Jennings), running 

 horses, not necessarily 'bred in France,' upon our 

 race-courses, and commencing that vigorous but 

 friendly rivalry with us which threatened at one 

 time to deprive us of our supremacy. The same 

 reign also saw a Russian, apparently — to judge 

 of his nationality by his name — the Count 

 Matuschevitz, not only running freely upon our 

 race-courses, but actually giving * a piece of Gold 

 Plate,' which the famous Touchstone, ridden by 

 the almost equally famous (in his day) Lord 

 Wilton, condescended to win in 1835 at Heaton 

 Park. Germans, too, whether in the form of a 

 Baron Bronenberg, or a Baron Maltzahn, or 

 Messrs. Lichtwald (who had the misfortune in 

 course of time to be 'warned off'), at least 

 ' throw their shadows before.' 



