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Count de Cambis's (Meiidon stud's) Wirthschaft (by 

 Giges, ' bred in France '), M. de Perceval's Vergogne 

 (by Ibrahim), Prince Marc de Beauvau's Fleur de 

 Marie (by Attila), Lord Henry Seymour's Poetess and 

 Viscount E. Perregaux's Plover (both by Eoyal Oak), M. 

 Celestin de Pontalba's Eenonce (by Young Emilius), and 

 M. A. Lupin's Amalfi (by Gladiator or Young Emilius). 



Of these French ' cracks ' very few indeed up to 

 1851 (included) had put in an appearance on any 

 English racecourse, and very few of their owners had 

 tried their strength against English opponents on 

 English ground, whether with French or Enc!:lish horses. 



The Duke d'Orleans won the Prix du Cadran thrice — 

 in 1839, 1840, and 1842— with Nautilus; but Nautilus, 

 as we have seen, with all his allowance of weight, could 

 not get a place for the Goodwood Cup ; and of the 

 other French ' cracks ' (which do not include, of course, 

 Cameleon, run by the Belgian Societe Vervietoise [or 

 de Verviers] unsuccessfully for the Goodwood Cup of 

 1844), Baron N. de Rothschild's Drummer (unplaced 

 for the Goodwood Cup of 1845), M. Aumont's (Mr. T. 

 Gibson's) FitzEmilius (unplaced for the Goodwood 

 Cup of 1848), and Mr. T.Carter's Dulcamara (ran for 

 the Doncaster Stakes in 1850) were about all that were 

 enterprising enough to face an English starter on English 

 ground ; for such animals as Jessy or Jessie (daughter 

 of Ion and Cyprienne, and bred in France), who ran 

 several times in England in 1850, were sold out of 

 France and were by no means ' cracks,' belonging to 

 another category altogether. 



The year 1852 was to see the commencement of a 

 new era. 



The French had hitherto made very gingerly ap- 

 proaches — had proceeded a tdtons, as they themselves 



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