100 HORSE-KACIXG IX FRANCE 



M. Eugene Sue, the novelist, is worthy of a passing 

 remark : he was a very ' horsey ' gentleman indeed, 

 and in his capacity of romancer wrote a highly effec- 

 tive account of the Godolphin Arabian, a ' romance ' 

 quite up to the author's level as an imaginative writer 

 whose motto was ' Taut pis pour les faits/ 



It will be observed that a Eothschild (to whom 

 miglit perliaps be added Barons James and Nathaniel, 

 who were among the very first to join) is associated with 

 these earliest members of the Jockey Club ; and there 

 too appear the names of M. A. Lupin and Count (then 

 Viscount) F. de Lagrange (written La Grange), who 

 were the first to make a mark in England. It was not 

 likely that tlie list would be swelled by any of the 

 Aumonts, who, as it were, set up Count de Lagrange 

 with a stock of race horses ; for — even if there were 

 no other reason — none of them was yet distinguished 

 or even known among breeders and owners. 



The cliicf ' haras,' or ' breeding studs,' in France 

 up to 1883 were — 



1. The old-established place at Le Pin, called Haras 

 Eoyal du Pin, in existence since the days of Louis XIV., 

 Colbert, and the infancy of the Administration des 

 Haras; there at some time or other, from 1818 to 1834, 

 were stationed the English imported stud horses Tigris 

 (winner of tlie Two Thousand, by Quiz), Streatlam Lad 

 (by Kemembrancer), Mustachio (l)y Whisker), Na- 

 poleon (by Bob Booty), who became the sire of Eylau, 

 (S:c., besides the Arab Massoud, &c. 



2. The Dauphin's Haras de Meudon (with fourteen 

 thoroughbred mares, in 1828, and the stud horse 

 Rowlston, imported from England). 



3. M. Eieussec's, first at Buc and then at Viroflay, 

 with the famous Eainbow for stud horse in chief. 



