68 HORSE-RACING IN FRANCE 



as the children say in the game of ' hide and seek ; ' the 

 year 1853 was to be memorable in the annals of the 

 French Tnrf. 



In that year Her vine again went down to the sea in 

 ships, braved mal de mer, and made another bid for 

 the Goodwood Cup. This time she had the services of 

 her old friend Mr. Spreoty, who rode her ; but again 

 she was unfortunate. She was five years old (though 

 she is called ' aged ' in the English Calendar), and she 

 carried 7 st. 1 lb. ; yet she, who is described by one of 

 her compatriots as ' la perle de notre parure che valine,' 

 could only obtain second place, having behind her, 

 however, such horses as Kingston, Muscovite, and 

 Weathergage. And — what was balm indeed for ' la belle 

 France ' — only the French could beat the French, for the 

 winner was M. A. Lupin's Jouvence, ' bred in France,' 

 but trained partly in England. 



Jouvence (daughter of Sting and Currency), was 

 tliree years old in 1853, carried about the lightest 

 weight (5 St. 9 lbs.) ever borne by a winner of the Good- 

 wood Cup, had already run in England (third for the 

 City and Suburban at Epsom Spring Meeting, where M. 

 Lupin had also run Cassique, ' bred in France '), and 

 had won both the French Oaks and the French Derby. 

 Great were the rejoicings in Paris over this first victory 

 of a French-bred horse in England ; the French Jockey 

 Club was illuminated and Waterloo was almost for- 

 <riven. Nor was this all. Both Jouvence and Hervine 

 ran after this in the same year (J 853) in England ; the 

 former (with success twice at Egham, where she won 

 a Queen's Plate) several times, and the latter once (un- 

 successfully in the Cambridgeshire). Nor, again, was this 

 all ; M. Lupin anticipated his compatriots by running 

 a French-bred two-year-old (Benvenuto, at Epsom 



