MONARQUE AND HIS SATELLITES 70 



for two-year-olds and three-year-olds of about 130/, at 

 Newmarket Houghton Meeting. 



Monarque was the hero of the campaign ; at last 

 he won the Goodwood Cup, the only event for which 

 he was a competitor, and he had behind him the pro- 

 digious Fisherman (winner of twenty six Queen's Plates 

 during his career) and the ' Americans ' Pryor and 

 Pryoress, as well as his compatriot Florin. As it was, 

 Monarque (five years, 8 st. 9 lbs.) won by a head only 

 from Eiseber (three years, 7 st. 2 lbs.) second and 

 Fisherman (four years, 9 st. lib.) a 'bad third.' This 

 victory, as a candid French authority admits, was 

 nothing for the Gallic cock to crow over, especially as 

 Monarque was or may have been served by a ' scrim- 

 mage ' in which Gemma di Vergy, the favourite. 

 Gunboat, and Florin were ' upset ' both literally and 

 figuratively. The French authority's candour may 

 be accounted for partly, perhaps, by the fact that the 

 Frenchmen did not profit much by Monarque's victory ; 

 the ' francs ' were on the unlucky Florin. 



The result of the French invasion of England in 

 1857, then, may be summed up thus: a victory, 

 nothing to boast of, in the race for the Goodwood Cup, 

 two other (very small) successes, and several failures. 



Meanwhile, on the other hand, there had been an 

 English invasion of French soil, to the great dis- 

 comfiture of the French. On September 30 Fisherman, 

 Saunterer, and Commotion had gone over ' for a lark ' 

 to Chantilly, to run for the Prix de I'Empereur against 

 Monarque, Eonzi, Mademoiselle de Chantilly, and 

 Duchess. The English horses gave away ' lumps ' of 

 weight to the French ; yet Fisherman won easily and 

 was followed home by Saunterer and Commotion 

 second and third, not a single ' Frenchman ' obtainincr 



