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get a place, tliongli he is said to liave finislied close up 

 with Sultan, who carried about four pounds less than 

 he, and who won the Cambridgeshire with 7 st. 6 lbs. 

 (7 St. in the Cesarewitch) al^out a fortnight later. 



On this visit Monarque had with him a satellite or 

 stable companion, one Peu d'Espoir, whose paternity, 

 oddly enough (for he too is described as by Sting, The 

 Baron, or The Emperor), rested under the very same 

 shadow of doubt as Monarque's. This Peu d'Espoir, 

 though he was thought something of in his own country, 

 could get no nearer than third among a very moderate 

 lot (three-year-olds) for 50/. at Newmarket Second Oc- 

 tober Meeting. That there was something in him 

 nevertheless he showed some ten days after his return 

 home by running and winning a very trying race at 

 Paris, beating Eonzi (winner of the French Oaks, by 

 Sir Tatton Sykes) and Monarchist (yet another son of 

 The Emperor). It was a race in ' heats ' at Paris for a 

 Prix Special. Peu d'Espoir won the first heat, ran a 

 dead heat with Eonzi in the second (so that it went for 

 nothing), was beaten in the third, and with great diffi- 

 culty won the fourth; so that the 3,500 francs, or 140/.,' 

 he gained by his prowess might be fairly termed ' very 

 hard cash.' 



Of the other French horses that were ' in attend- 

 ance ' on Monarque at his visits in 1855, or that came 

 over to England at all during that year, M. Adolphe 

 Fould's Ptemus, the two-year-old hero of the preceding 

 year, ran once (for the City and Suburban) — to no 

 purpose. Hervine, now ' aged,' ran second for the 

 Goodwood Stakes ; M. Adolphe Fould's two-year-old 

 Eamadan (by Garry Owen) was a ' bad third ' for a 

 sweepstakes at Bedford, and afterwards seventh and 

 last for the Criterion Stakes ; but, as if to mock 



