THE FRENCH JOCKEY CLUB 31 



a year after the French Derby had been won by his 

 famous Poetess m 1841, and she also disappeared for a 

 while, the double disappearance being connected, no 

 doubt, in some way with a ' scandal ' which arose out of 

 the French Derby of 1840, and which will receive due 

 notice hereafter in the proper place. Oddly enough, 

 notwithstanding Lord Henry's great success, his two 

 chief stud horses. Royal Oak and Ibrahim, seem to have 

 gone a-begging for some time after his retirement, both 

 in England and in France. Perhaps he put too high a 

 price upon them ; but they eventually found a home in 

 the French Government's studs, where they both died in 

 1849. The great things acliieved by Lord Henry Sey- 

 mour for the French Turf are kept in memory by the 

 Prix Seymour at the Paris Summer Meeting, and the 

 Prix de Glatigny, the Prix Ptoyal Oak, and the Prix de 

 Sablonville at the Paris Autumn Meeting. 



Besides the president. Lord Henry Seymour, there 

 were at first two vice-presidents of the French Jockey 

 Club — Joseph Napoleon Ney, Prince de la Moscowa, and 

 M. Eieussec. 



The Prince de la Moscowa was the eldest son of 

 Marshal Ney, ' the bravest of the brave,' and the eldest 

 brother of the Duke d'Elchingen (whose son, the second 

 Duke d'Elchingen, died so mysteriously some few years 

 ago at a miserable sort of house in the suburbs of Paris) 

 and of Edgar Ney (the friend and equerry of Napo- 

 leon III.), who himself in 1857 received the title of 

 Prince de la Moscowa. The former Prince de la Mos- 

 cowa, at first vice-president and afterwards president 

 of the French Jockey Club, though his memory is kept 

 green upon the French Turf by the Prix de la Moscowa 

 at the Paris Summer Meeting, and though he was a 

 famous ' cjentleman rider ' and both owned and bred 



