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Fay), M. Auguste Lupin, Prince Marc cle Beauvau 

 (whose establishment at La Morlaye and elsewhere was 

 kept rather as a great lord keeps anything fashionable 

 than because the owner's heart was in the matter, 

 though he was successful enough through the agency 

 of Mr. Henry Jennings, the trainer), Baron N. de 

 Eothschild, Count des Cars (a very old ' horsey ' name 

 among the French), Count de Morny, MM. Eeiset 

 (whose services in the cause of the French Turf are 

 commemorated by the Prix Eeiset at Paris Spring 

 Meeting), Fasquel (of Courteuil), Mosselman (of Yer- 

 berie, near Compiegne), de Terves, de Barace, Baron 

 A. Schickler, and Henri Delamarre ; and in the South 

 Count de Coux, M. de Vanteaux, the Marquis de 

 Eoffignac, M. Achille Fould (the celebrated Minister of 

 Finance), M. de Behague (a notable breeder), and in 

 the ' Circonscri23tion de I'Ouest ' M. Eobin (breeder and 

 owner of Souvenir, the first ' Western ' horse to 

 ' illustrate ' the provinces, as he did by winning the 

 French Derby in 1862), together with one or two 

 others. 



As for the trainers, on whom so much depends, 

 they were English to a man, or almost to a man ; and 

 of them there were at Chantilly alone about this time a 

 score or more, among whom the most prominent were 

 (besides Messrs. Corringham, Palmer, and the ' old 

 originals ') Mr. Thomas Carter, employed by Lord 

 Henry Seymour originally, and afterwards by M. Eeiset 

 and Baron de Eothschild ; Mr. T. Jennings and Mr. H. 

 Jennings (both introduced under the wing of Mr. 

 Thomas Carter originally, as has already been noticed), 

 the former employed by M. Aumont, the latter by that 

 easy master Prince Marc de Beauvau ; Mr. Boldrick, 

 by Madame Latache de Fay Mr. E. Cunningham, by 



