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Brutus ; Prince Marc de Beauvau's Serious was third ; 

 Mademoiselle de Chantilly, Duchess, and Lastborn, half- 

 sister to Eonzi, could not obtain a place. There are 

 authorities who say that Potocki (who was a son of the 

 Baron or Nunnykirk and Myszka, by Bizarre, and had 

 already won the Prix de la Ville, now the Prix de 

 Lutece, beating Monarque, at a difference, however, of 

 more than 3 st.) was intrinsically a better horse than 

 Florin, but he died in 1859 and could not prove it 

 (though he won the Prix du Cadran in 1858) by his 

 produce. 



As for the French invasion of England in 1857, 

 France was better represented than ever before on 

 English ground ; and the chief, if not the whole, of the 

 representatives were Monarque, Potocki, Florin, Paladin, 

 Eonzi, Mademoiselle de Chantilly, and a two-year-old filly, 

 Chevrette, belonging to Count F. de Lagrange. Potocki, 

 carrying 7 st. 1 lb., which was more than Avas carried 

 by any English horse of his age, and Paladin, carrying 

 the almost feather weight of 5 st. 12 lbs. (though there 

 was an English horse in the race with 4 st. 5 lbs., carry- 

 ing 4 St. 7 lbs.), were 'nowhere' for the Goodwood Stakes, 

 and Paladin ran to no purpose in another race at Good- 

 wood. Florin ran in vain for the Goodwood Cup and 

 the Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood ; Eonzi ran in vain 

 for the Cesarewitch (which, oddly enough, was won this 

 year by a ' foreigner,' the American Pryoress, after a 

 dead heat of three)^ for two Handicap Plates at New- 

 market Houghton Meeting, as well as for one at the 

 Second October, and won a Handicap Plate of fifty 

 sovereigns at the Houghton ; Mademoiselle de Chantilly 

 had the honour of starting equal second favourite for 

 the Cambridgeshire, but was not placed ; and Chevrette 

 ran three times, and won once, a Handicap Sweepstakes 



