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Moiiarque, the Goodwood Cup was won by Baron N. 

 de Eotlischild's Baroncino (yet another son of The Em- 

 peror), who had been second to Monarque for the 

 French Derby. This Baroncino, hke M. Lupin's Ben- 

 venuto (a candidate for the Epsom Autumn Handicap 

 the year before), uUimately remained by purchase or 

 transfer in England, but neither of them did any good 

 in the land of their adoption. Oddly enough, Monarque 

 on returning to France won three races in one week, as 

 if to show that ' it was the cUmate.' 



In 1856 we notice that it is no longer Monarque 

 wlio rules the roast in France, but Madame Latache de 

 Fay's Ronzi (winner of the French Oaks in 1855) ; and 

 that Hervine, Jouvence, Trust, and Eoyal-quand-meme 

 have disappeared from the scene. In 1856, in fact, 

 Ronzi stood at the head of affairs, winning (in stakes) 

 twice as much as Monarque, whom she defeated in the 

 Prix de I'Empereur at Chantilly, for which, however, 

 she was in the receipt of 10 lbs. Behind her and 

 Monarque was Lion, three years old, receiving a stone 

 from Monarque and, sex considered, 6 lbs. from 

 Ronzi. 



This Lion, son of Ion and Miss Caroline, English 

 sire and English dam, both imported, was one of the 

 very best and most remarkable of all the French horses, 

 and, but for his early death in 1857 (when at four years 

 of age he broke his leg), might have attained a repu- 

 tation, both as a racer and as a sire, not inferior to 

 Monarque's. Lion belonged to Prince Marc de Beauvau 

 (or to the confederacy. of which Prince Marc was the 

 titular head), and he had won a very sensational French 

 Derby in 1856 after a dead heat wdth a very inferior 

 animal. Count de Morny's Diamant (son of Young Emilius 

 and Naiade), whom he completely ' lost ' in the ' run 



