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■whether it were tlie Stewards' Cup, or the Goodwood 

 Stakes, or the Find on Stakes, or the Goodwood Cui), or 

 the Bentinck Memorial PLate. It shoukl be mentioned, 

 however, that Mademoiselle de Chantilly had made d^faux 

 pas or met with some sort of accident en route, and so 

 merely walked in with the crowd to see what had won 

 the Goodwood Cup, having previously been unplaced 

 for the Stewards' Cup. This year, again, English 

 horses, Gaspard and Lifeboat to wit, went, as in previous 

 years, to run for the Prix de I'Empereur at Chantilly. 

 The French were represented by Goelette, Black Prince, 

 and Fortune among others ; Lifeboat was naturally made 

 favourite ; but Gaspard won, Goelette (much indulged 

 in point of weight) was second, and Lifeboat only third. 

 The victory of the English liorse was received by tlie 

 French, it is said, in ' dead silence ' (' niorne silence '). 

 This year too Geologic (winner of the French Oaks and 

 of the Grand Prix at Baden, but defeated for the French 

 Derl)y) was sent by Baron Niviere to run for our ( *am- 

 bridgeshire, but was not in the betting or stood at 

 66 to 1, and indeed was ' not in it ' at all. Thus, then, 

 a ' compatriot ' tersely but accurately snms up the his- 

 tory of the season : ' Produce very indifferent : success 

 in England — none.' The year, however, was memor- 

 able for the importation into France of the Flying 

 Dutchman by the Administration des Haras, at a cost 

 of 104,000 francs, or npwards of 4,000/. (the highest 

 price the Government had ever paid for a stud horse), 

 and of Pyrrhus the First (winner of the Derby of 1846) 

 by M. de Nexon. 



The year 1860 was notable for tlie disappearance 

 from the Turf of M. Alexandre Aumont, who, when he 

 sold his horses to Count F. de Lagrange in 1856, had 

 undertaken not to race for three years. The time was 



