THE FRENCH JOCKEY CLUB 23 



At Chantilly were the training-stables of the Duke 

 d'Orleans ; and there in 1839, with George Edwards, 

 an Enghshman, for trainer, with a staff of EngUsh grooms 

 and stable lads, and with Edgar Pavis, English to the 

 backbone and brother of the more celebrated Arthur 

 Pavis, for principal jockey, the Duke had a score or 

 more of horses in training, kept by pairs, two in each 

 stable, with a picture of a horseshoe (or a real horse- 

 shoe) on every stable door, it is said, and the per- 

 formances of each occupant painted upon the door 

 within the shoe. The stud, as has been stated, was at 

 Meudon, under the Duke's Master of the Horse, Count 

 de Cambis, who had succeeded the King's Master of the 

 Horse, Marquis de Strada, who had taken the place of 

 the ex-Dauphin's Master of the Horse, Duke de Guiche. 

 It ma}^ be roughly asserted that the racing of the French 

 Turf from 1834 to 1842 was, but for the occasional 

 intervention of M. Eugene Aumont and a few others, a 

 duel between the Duke d'Orleans and Lord Henry 

 Seymour. Of the score or more of horses which the 

 Duke had in training in 1839, the most distinguished 

 were Esmeralda, Eomulus, Nautilus, Giges, Quoniara, 

 and the English-bred Beggarman, who won the Good- 

 wood Cup of 1840, beating such ' illustrations ' as 

 Lanercost, Hetman Platoff, Charles XII., and Pocahontas 

 (the dam of dams that bred Stockwell, Eataplan, and 

 King Tom), and who, on returning to France under 

 the care of Count de Cambis, was the hero of a ridi- 

 culous adventure, the zealous officials at Boulogne 

 promptly seizing both horse and Count and committing 

 tliem to durance vile, on suspicion of being the charger 

 and equerry respectively of the Prince Louis Napoleon 

 Bonaparte, who was just then giving trouble to the 

 authorities. The Duke d'Orleans, in the name of Count 



