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Germany, nor in Austria-Hungary, does lie appear to 

 have begotten any little 'Palestro ' to 'illustrate' liis name. 

 Let us next recount the sad story of Gabrielle 

 d'Estrees, daughter of FitzGladiator (sire of Palestro) 

 and of Antonia (by Epirus), the dam of the right 

 honourable but extremely savage Trocadero. Gabrielle 

 was running up to seven years of age — that is, to the 

 end of 1864 — and nevertheless went out of training 

 without a stain upon her character for soundness. At 

 two years of age she ran and was seen (not to advantage) 

 in England ; at three years she won (as we have seen) 

 the French Derby, but she shared with the illustrious, 

 though ' goose-rumped,' Caller Ou the misfortune of 

 being luiplaced behind Brown Duchess for the Oaks at 

 Epsom ; and she Avent on running with more or less 

 success (rather less than more, perhaps) assiduously, 

 having run at least ten races, some of them in 'heats' 

 (as the Prix Imperial, for instance, which she won at 

 Chantilly), at six years of age. Endurance and 'bottom' 

 (which the French call ' fond ') were, therefore, her 

 strong points, and that made her melancholy end the 

 more regrettable. She had been sent over to England 

 on a visit to Gladiateur, and at her return, in 1867, she 

 had so bad a passage that she fell sick and died, having 

 produced (alive) but one fdly (exported to England, 

 according to the French Stud Book) and one colt, 

 Mademoiselle de Vendome and Commandeur. Her evi- 

 dent liability to suffer from mal de mer may have ac- 

 counted for the poor show she always made in England. 

 Wliat made her loss so nuicli deplored in France was 

 that she (save Antoinette, supposed to be ' lost, stolen, 

 or strayed ') was the last daughter left of Antonia, who, 

 singularly enough, died the same year as her ill-starred 

 daughter, Gabrielle, and wlio had produced the great 



