76 HORSE-RACING IN FRANCE 



witli Ilervine, Pen d'Espoir, and Monarqiie had made 

 such gallant attempts on English racecourses, who, as 

 one of his compatriots eloquently puts it, ' had caught 

 a glimpse of the promised land, but was not to enter it,' 

 and who had announced an intention of disposing of his 

 stud by auction, had come to a priv^ate arrangement 

 with a wholesale purchaser. This purchaser was a 

 gentleman who soon became as well known and as 

 formidable on the English as on the French Turf — Count 

 Frederic de Lagrange. The horses sold comprised 

 Monarque (four years old in 1856), Pen d'Espoir (four 

 years old), Brutus (son of Sting and Loterie, two years), 

 Mademoiselle de Chantilly (by Gladiator and Maid of 

 Mona, two years), and others ; and, what was more or 

 what was most, they were accompanied by the renowned 

 trainer Mr. T. Jennings, who had done so much for M. 

 Aumont and was to do so much more for Count F. de 

 Lagrange. Monarque at once foreshadowed the vic- 

 torious destiny of the new colours by winning a Prix 

 Lnperial at Paris Autumn Meeting, having, however, 

 only one (somewhat sorry) opponent to beat in Madame 

 Latache de Fay's Valbruant (son of Nuncio and Wirth- 

 schaft). 



Li 1857 Monarque, who had won the first success 

 for his new colours, maintained his supremacy in France 

 (winning the Prix du Pavilion, the Prix des Haras at 

 Chantilly, the Prix de 1' Administration des Haras and 

 the Prix Imperial at Boulogne, the Prix Imperial at 

 Moulins, and the Prix Imperial and the Grand Prix 

 Imperial at Paris, &c.), but on two memorable occa- 

 sions he nearly lost it actually and virtually lost it quite. 

 On May 17, the day on which Mademoiselle de Chantilly 

 won the French Oaks for the new colours borne by 

 Monarque, the great horse won a terrific race at 



