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(winner of the Poule des Produits in 1858), Fort-a-bras, 

 Goelette, and (in the South) Sylvaiu ; among the three- 

 year-olds Black Prince (winner of the French Derby), 

 Geologic (winner of the French Oaks), Union Jack 

 (winner of the Prix de rEmpereur, now Grande Poule 

 des Produits, at Paris), Nuncia (wdio had been a very 

 promising two-year-old), Bakaloum (winner of the 

 Poule d'Essai), Preciirseur, the celebrated Light (son of 

 The Prime Warden and Balaclava, though he had not 

 as yet shown what was in him — that he would win 

 nineteen races ' riglit off the reel ' and would become 

 the sire of Bigarreau and Sornette), and (in the South) 

 Bissextil and Marianne. 



Nevertlieless the annual French invasion of England 

 was in 1859 a dead failure. The campaign began 

 badly at Warwick when Count F. de Lagrange ran 

 Tramp (two years old) and Etoile du Nord (winner of 

 the French Oaks in 1858) to no purpose ; and the last 

 French performance of the year in England was that of 

 Baron Schickler's Martel-en-Tete, who was second for 

 the City and Suburban (won by Glenbuck, three years 

 old, with the preposterous weight of 4 st. 10 lbs., car. 

 4 St. 12 lbs.) just five days before he won the Prix du 

 Cadran in the Bois de Boulogne. At Ascot Baron 

 Niviere ran Miss Cath (six years) and Wedding (three 

 years) in vain ; the former was said to be not ' wound 

 up,' tlie latter to have been badly ridden (by Pantal, 

 a French jockey apparently). At Goodwood, whither 

 Count F. de Lagrange sent Mademoiselle de Chan- 

 tilly (five years). Union Jack (three years), and 

 Aboukir (two years), the Frenchmen were grievously 

 discomfited ; neither the Count, nor Baron Niviere 

 (with Miss Cath), nor the Baron's associate Count de 

 Prado (with Gouvieux), could nearly win a race, 



