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as appears from the newspapers of the day, and from it 

 he supphed even Lord Henry Seymour with certain 

 horses, including the half-bred Clerino. He is the hero 

 too of a curious ' sporting event ' for a bet of 50 louis 

 between himself and Lord Henry. The Count was a 

 pupil of the Ecole Royale d'Equitation de Paris, and, to 

 maintahi the excellence of the riding taught in that 

 school, he made the aforesaid bet that he would ride at 

 the trot (' au trot anglais ' — that is, no doubt, without 

 ' pacing ' or ' ambling,' but at the true diagonal trot) 

 and ' bare back ' (in French ' a poll ') from the Porte 

 Maillot to the Porte de Boulogne, in the Bois de Bou- 

 logne, a distance of something over two miles. This 

 he did, and ' realised the stakes,' on November 27, J 829, 

 triumphantly vindicating tlie cause of the Ecole d'Equi- 

 tation de Paris, though his friends were afraid that ' the 

 long and ra|)id descent towards the Porte de Boulogne ' 

 would be ratlier too much for him and his riding-master. 

 However none of the great French races and none of 

 the illustrious sires or dams of the French studs appear 

 to have been assigned to Count Max. Caccia. 



We now come to Count de Cambis, who died in 

 Paris in 1874 at the great age of eighty, and was de- 

 scribed at that time as ' ancien officier superieur.' The 

 Count derived his chief importance, of course, from the 

 fact that he had the manai^ement of the Meudon stud 

 for the Duke d'Orleans (himself honorary foundation 

 member of the French Jockey Club). He was equerry 

 to the Duke, and afterwards honorary equerry to the 

 infant Count de Paris. Count de Cambis, after the death 

 of the Duke d'Orleans (who frequently, if not generally, 

 ran in the Count's name), won the Prix de Diane (French 

 Oaks) in 1847 with Wirthschaft (by Giges), but in his 

 capacity, no doubt, of manager of the Meudon stud, 



