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Mademoiselle de Champigny (two years) at Newmarket, 

 &c. ; Finlande and Herculaiieiim (two years) at New- 

 market ; and M. Aumont, who seems to liave been the 

 only Frenchman besides the ' Big Stable ' to run in 

 England this year, had ' a shy ' at the Goodwood Cup 

 with Mon Etoile, but she did not obtain a place, taking 

 a back seat with her compatriot Royallieu. 



Of tlie horses mentioned as having run in England 

 the following only were winners on Enghsh race- 

 courses : Palaiseau (three events and 222/. at Doncaster 

 and Newmarket) ; Cosmopolite, the ' horse of all work,' 

 a gelding (eight events and 1,905/. at Warwick, New- 

 market [Great Eastern Handicap], and Doncaster) ; 

 Light (one event, 50/,, at Epsom) ; Angelo (two events 

 and 170/. at Chester and York) ; Gabrielle d'Estrees 

 (one event and 140/. at Shrewsbury) ; Marignan (four 

 events and 845/. at Epsom, Manchester, and [the Fern- 

 hill Stakes] at Ascot) ; Baliverne (five events and 515/. 

 at York, Malton, Newton, and Wolverhampton) ; Wed- 

 ding (one event and 50/. at Epsom) ; Surprise (one 

 event and 250/. at Epsom, the Cup) ; Alerte (one event 

 and 705/. [Ascot Biennial]) ; Palestro (one event — the 

 Cambridgeshire — and 2,225/.) ; Exactitude (one event 

 and 60/. at Newmarket) ; Mademoiselle de Champigny 

 (one event and 190/. at Bedford): upwards of 7,000/. 

 in all. 



The campaign had not been very brilliant perliaps, 

 but it was enough to set a ' compatriot,' who dw^elt 

 rather upon victories than defeats, singing a song of 

 satisfaction on this wise : ' There can now be no doubt 

 of the progress made in French horse-breeding. It is 

 not ten years since old Hervine's first attempt at Good- 

 wood was described as madness ; and now the French 

 horses have to be taken into account wlierever they put in. 



