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Town. Department. 



10. IMont de Marsan . . Lancles. 



11. Nancy .... Meurthe. 



1 o -n • ( Bois cle Boulogne ) o • 



12. Pans i ri^ J T\r ( oeme. 



( Oliamp de Mars ) 



13. riu (Le) .... Orne. 



14. Poitiers .... Vienne. 



15. Sablons (Plaine de) . . Seine. 



16. Semur .... Cote d'Or. 



17. St. Brieuc .... Cotes du Nord. 



18. Strasbourg . . . Bas Rliin. 



19. Tarbes .... Hautes Pyrenees. 



20. Treves .... Sarre. 



21. Tuble .... Correze. 



22. Vinceunes . . . Seine. 



And what lias been the growtli since the Societe 

 d'Enconragement began their propaganda in 1833 ? 

 Some of the ' old originals ' have — naturally — ' gone 

 under ; ' Aries, Boiirbon-Vendee, Sablons, Semiir, Treves, 

 and one or two others have disappeared from the list. 

 but, en reva7iche, so many more have been added that 

 the number of ' hippodromes ' for ' courses plates,' or 

 ' Hat racing,' was 133 in 1885, which is actually Go 

 more tlian was then tlie nundjer in the still United 

 Kingdom, according to ' Weatherby.' 



To the twenty-two ' originals ' may be added, if any- 

 body please, Count Victor de Tocqueville's private ' hip- 

 podrome ' near Dieppe ; but it is not probable that there 

 were many other private ' hippodromes ' up to the day 

 when M. E. Blanc set up his at ChapelJe-en-Serval in 

 1870. 



Tlie principal proprietors of horses during this period 

 (from 1776 to the end of 1833), and those most known to 

 fame, were the Count d'Artois (Charles X.), the Duke de 

 Chartres (Duke d'Orleans, ' Pliihppe Egalite '), the Prince 

 de Nassau, the Prince de Guemence, the Marquis de 



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