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of our Jockey Club), would run horses in England. 

 Other Frenchmen besides Philippe Egalite were also in 

 all probability hon. members of our Jockey Club ; and 

 in course of time Philippe Egalite ran in England horses 

 ' bred in France,' such as the two-year-olds Eouge, 

 Vert, and Glowworm, all by Glowworm, in 1785. Ega- 

 lite as Duke de Chartres ran Cantator (bred in England, 

 however) for the Derby of 1784; and as near his 

 trag-ic end as 1790 was still horse racini? in England 

 (with Hocks, Lambinos, Fortitude, and Conqueror), 

 with a carelessness worthy of him who fiddled whilst 

 Eome was burning. At the French races the King 

 himself would attend, and would bet his modest ' petit 

 ecu,' thinking, good soul, that the moderation of a 

 king might be a check upon the extravagant gambling 

 of courtiers, that example w^ould be better than precept. 

 This was the time when several ' crack ' English 

 sires were imported into France, not permanently for 

 the most part, but temporarily, both to run and to 

 serve as sires : such were the famous Comus (son of 

 Otho), sold to the Count d'Artois in 1776 ; Barbary 

 (son of Panglos), sold to the same purchaser about the 

 same time ; Glowworm (son of Eclipse), sold to the 

 Marquis de Conflans about the same time ; King Pepin 

 (son of Turf), sold to ' a French nobleman ' (most likely 

 either the Count d'Artois or the Duke de Chartres) for 

 1,000 guineas about the same time; Pyrois (son of 

 Matchem), sold (? to the Duke de Chartres) about the 

 same time ; and Teucer (son of Northumberland), 

 purchased 'for Lord Rockingham, who sent him into 

 France to the Marquis de Conflans,' about the same 

 time. Mares too were imported by the French at that 

 period, whether for a permanency or only for a while : 

 among them were Sphynx (daughter of Marske), dam 



