1 88 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



hardest in the arena of horse-racing, were they 

 the first, after the wars which culminated in the 

 decisive affair of Waterloo, either to run for or 

 to win, whether with English or foreign horse, 

 any English race, whether of small or any other 

 account. Count Batthyany (a Hungarian), Count 

 Matustchevitz (a Russian), Herr Broenenburg (a 

 German), M. Dulewski (a Pole), Count Hunyadi 

 (a Hungarian), and probably the notorious Messrs. 

 Lichtwald, preceded by some few years Lord 

 Henry Seymour (who, for racing purposes, was 

 a Frenchman), Comte de Courcy, Messrs. Aumont 

 (who bought the notable Mr. Wags and ran him 

 at Canterbury in 1839), the Due d'Orleans, and 

 the whole French brigade, for Baron de Teissier, 

 though he was a ' perpetual steward of Epsom 

 races,' in conjunction with the popular Sir Gilbert 

 Heathcote, and a member of our Jockey Club, 

 and though he nominated a filly for the Durdans 

 Stakes in 1833, does not seem to have raced at 

 all ; and, moreover, was a naturalized English- 

 man. 



The French, no doubt, soon outnumbered the 

 other foreigners, and made incessant attacks 

 with horses ' bred in France ' (such as the Due 



