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but won two races at the Houghton with Pretendant 

 (son of Faugh-a-BaUagh) agamst some reputed Enghsh 

 ' flyers ' and made the astonished Britons rub their 

 eyes ; and Baron N. de Rothschild not very nearly 

 repeated ' the Baroncino trick ' with Gustave, for the 

 ' Frenchman,' though second to Sweetsauce for the 

 Goodwood Cup, was ten lengths ' to the bad.' Of the 

 other horses ' l)red in France ' that ran in England this 

 year (1860) Zouave was third for both the Stewards' Cup 

 and Goodwood Cup ; Fort-a-bras and Viroflay were ' not 

 placed ' for the former, as also Fort-a-bras and Nuncia 

 Avere for the Chesterfield Cup, and Heliopolis for the 

 Findon Stakes and subsequently for three races at 

 Newmarket ; much the same remark applies to Angelo, 

 but Negro (afterwards Massa) won a small sweepstakes 

 at Newmarket Houghton, as also did Isabella (winner 

 of the Grand Criterium at Paris), a two-year-old ; the 

 celebrated Gabrielle d'Estrees, another two-year-old, 

 was fourth but ' not placed ' for a Nursery Handicap 

 at Newmarket (which was little enough for a future 

 winner of the French Derby) ; the wonderful Light 

 (sire of Sonnette), who had won nineteen events ' off 

 the reel ' in France, until his uninterrupted victories had 

 been stopped by Mademoiselle de Chantilly at Caen, was 

 ' not placed ' for a plate at Newmarket Houghton, but 

 started first favourite at 2 to 1 for the Liverpool 

 Autumn Cup and was second, only a neck behind The 

 Brewer, an ' aged ' horse carrying ] 2 lbs. less than the 

 four-year-old Light ; and finally Cosmopolite, who was 

 always ' partem in utramque paratus,' as ready to 

 run steeple-chases as flat races, flat races as steeple- 

 chases, wound up the season honourably for the French 

 by winning ' Le Grand Steeple-chase d'Hereford,' as the 

 French authority hath it. 



