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which English mare the French ran third for the 

 Oaks of 1S63), and Mr. W. G. Craven's Woman in 

 Red (ex-Jessie Brown), that became the dam of 

 the redoubtable brothers, Revigny and Montargis 

 (winner of the Cambridgeshire of 1873), by the 

 well -named, romantic, short-lived, meritorious 

 Orphelin. Of these importations the venerable 

 M. A. Lupin bore the brunt in point of expense, 

 but Messrs. Lefevre and Aumont had a share in 

 them ; and certainly the French cannot be accused 

 of going a-warfare on English race-grounds with- 

 out calculatinof the cost thereof 



To Germany : winners of the Derby — Milndig, 

 Phosphorus, Bloomsbury, Attila (though he died 

 en i^ozUe, at the early age of seven, in 1846, after 

 a curious career, having cost but 120 guineas at 

 two years of age, and having been, on several 

 occasions, an object of villainous attempts on the 

 part of the 'nobbier'), Daniel O'Rourke, Blue 

 Gown (afterwards died on his way to New York), 

 and St. Gatien (for ^14,000). 



Winners of the Two Thousand — Augustus (pur- 

 chased through Lieut. Ficker in 1839), Riddles- 

 worth (purchased by Messrs. Lichtwald for a Berlin 

 Company, but sent back to England in 1839, and 



