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Cliantilly from Lion with great difficulty, Lion being in 

 receipt of only two pounds. A week afterwards, at 

 Cliantilly again, the two horses ran a race in heats. 

 Monarque (giving as much as ten pounds this tinie) won 

 the first heat by a head only ; and in the second he 

 was already beaten when Lion (a year his junior) broke 

 his pastern within sight, though not quite within reach, 

 of the winning post. 



This was the day of the French Derby, and a very 

 memorable French Derby. Among the competitors 

 were M. A. Lupin's Floi-in (winner of both the Poule 

 d'Essai and the Poule des Produits) ; Count F. de 

 Lagrange's Mademoiselle de Cliantilly (winner of the 

 French Oaks and of the Prix de I'Empereur, now the 

 Grande Poule des Produits, at Paris) ; and Prince Marc 

 de Beauvau's Duchess (winner of the Grand Criterium at 

 Paris the year before). Florin was thought likely to 

 win, and M. Lupin (who had two other candidates, 

 named Paladin and Potocki) declared to win with 

 Florin. This horse was the son of the celebrated 

 Surplice and of Payment (imported by M. Lupin when 

 she was in foal with Florin, and destined to be after- 

 wards the dam of the very distinguished Dollar) ; but he 

 was an unlucky beast, a hke a chagrin. He had lost 

 an eye from inflammation brought on by a cold, and 

 just after the start for the French Derby he crossed 

 his legs, came down heavily, and fell upon his rider, 

 Kitchener, who was picked u|) insensible. Now was 

 seen the advantage of having two, or rather three, 

 strings to your bow ; for Paladin immediately took up 

 the running on behalf of Potocki, made the pace a 

 ' cracker,' and resigning his place to Potocki at the 

 distance, enabled the latter to win easily by two lengths. 

 Second was Count F. de Lagrange's late j^i-ii'chase, 



