I90 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



France had not only equalled but surpassed her 

 in horse-racing- and horse-breeding. 1 he crow 

 was a little premature, as events have shown, for 

 the French still come to us for ' tap-roots.' 



The reign of Queen Victoria, nevertheless, has 

 seen the foreigner, especially the Frenchman, 

 pressing to the front, and the English racing-man 

 has now to take into serious account a number of 

 horses bred in other countries. After the French 

 came the Americans, represented by Mr. Ten 

 Broeck single-handed, who did little more than 

 threaten great things which were unaccomplished, 

 until Mr. Sandford's Brown Prince had made a 

 fair bid, and had been followed by Mr. Lorillard's 

 Iroquois and Mr. Keene's Foxhall, both in the 

 same year, and the two best horses of that year. 

 It is curious that the Germans, who began so 

 well, and who, in 1854, won the Cambridgeshire, 

 which has so often fallen to the Frenchmen, with 

 Baron Williamowitz-Mollendorf (Gadow)'s Scherz 

 (bred in Germany), long before the French won 

 it for the first time (with Palestro in 1861), should 

 have remained, as it were, in the second class, 

 and should have been out-run by the Austro- 

 Hungarians with Kisber, a performer of the first 



