62 IIOESE-RACING IN FEANCE 



tbey had seldom met any English ' cracks,' either on 

 English or on French soil. 



We have seen that old ' Egalite ' ran horses ' bred 

 in France ' in England before the first Eevolntion, and 

 that English and French horses ran against one another 

 at Vincennes and elsewhere in France on the eve of 

 ' the deluge.' After ' the deluge,' during the Eestora- 

 tion, we do not find any mention of horses ' bred in 

 France ' running in England, and there is scarcely a 

 trace of any Frenchman running any race horse at all 

 in England. After the Revolution of July 1830, how- 

 ever, we find Baron Teissier (who was naturalised in 

 England, a member of the English Jockey Club, a re- 

 sident at Epsom, and a steward of Epsom races) nomi- 

 nating, in 1833, a filly (English) for the Durdans 

 Stakes ; and after the establishment of the French 

 Jockey Club, in 1833, we find Lord Henry Seymour 

 (who for all racing purposes was a Frenchman) running 

 Elizondo (Ensrlish) in 1836 at Newmarket, in ]838 

 Scroggins (English) at Bedford and Newmarket, and 

 Oakstick ('bred in France') in 1841 at Goodwood. 

 Meanwhile the Duke d'Orleans, as we have seen, had 

 won the Goodwood Cup in 1840 with Beggarman 

 (English) ; and he had run Nautilus (' bred in France ') 

 unsuccessfully for the Goodwood Cup in 1841. M. 

 Eugene Aumont also had run Mr. Wags (English) at 

 Canterbury in 1839 ; and Mr. T. Carter (domiciled in 

 France with Lord Henry Seymour) had run Brabant 

 and Creusa (English, but imported into France) in 

 England in 1838, on behalf, no doubt, of Lord Henry 

 Seymour. Such were the chief efforts made by French 

 owners in the years immediately succeeding the foun- 

 dation of tlie French Jockey Club. 



Indeed, the Germans, oddly enough, may be said to 



