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appended a list of the places at which race meetings 

 were held last year (1885), and which have grown ont 

 of the original twenty-two (in existence between 1776 

 and 1833) with a rapid multiplication worthy of the 

 famous ' men in buckram.' 



Agen, Abbeville, Aire, Aix-les-Bains, Aimargnes, 

 Amiens, Angers, Angouleme, Antrain, Auch, Aurillac, 

 Auxonne, Avignon, Avranches, Bagneres de Bigorre, 

 Bagneres de Luchon, Barbezieux, Bayonne-Biarritz, 

 Bazas, Beaumont de Lomagne, Beaupreau, Beauvais, 

 Bernay, Besan^on, Bergerac, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur- 

 Mer, Bourgoin, Cabourg, Caen, Carhaix, Carpentras, 

 Castillonnes, Castelsarrazin, Cavaillon, Cazaubon, 

 Chalais, Chalamont, Chalon-sur-Saone, Chantilly, Cha- 

 teauroux, Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne, Cherbourg, Cholet, 

 Condom, Corlay, Courseulles, Craon, Dax, Deauville, 

 Dieppe, Dinan, Dorat, Douai, Dunkerque, Eauze, 

 Evreux, Feurs, Fleurance, Fontainebleau, Gemozac, 

 Grenade-sur-l'Adour, Guerande, Havre, Hyeres, Jullou- 

 ville. La Brede, LaFoux, La Guerche, Langon,Lannion, 

 Laon, La Eoche-sur-Yon, La Tour du Pin, Le Mans, 

 Lesparre, LTsle, Libourne, Limoges, Lille, Lyon, Mansle, 

 Marmande, Marseille, Maubourguet, Meslay du Maine, 

 Mirambeau, Montaigu, Montauban, Mont de Marsan, 

 Montelimar, Morlaix, Moulins, Nancy, Nantes, Nar- 

 bonne, Nevers, Nimes, Niort, Pan, Perigueux, Paris 

 (Bois de Boulogne), Pertuis, Pin, Poitiers, Quimper, 

 Eedon, Eeims, Eennes, Eochefort-sur-Mer, Eoubaix, 

 Eouen, Eoyan, Sables d'Olonne, St. Andre de Cubzac, 

 St. Brieuc, Saintes, St. Jean d'Angely, St. Lo, St. Nazaire, 

 St. Ouen des Toits, Saumur, Tannay, Tarbes, Toulouse, 

 Tourcoing, Tours, Valence d'Agen, Valenciennes, 

 Vannes, Vernon, Vic-Bigorre, Vincennes. 



No doid3t some of these meeting;s — a dozen or more 



