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her stable and its adherents, was certamly unknown to 

 fame when she came out to run her dazzhng career (in 

 her own country) as a tliree-year-old. She seems to 

 have made her first attempt at York Spring Meeting, 

 where she was beaten into fifth place (with six runners) 

 for the Knavesmire Plate by Livingstone, Inverness, 

 Lyra, and Fauconberg. She then went over the sea 

 and ' took it out ' on her ' compatriots,' winning the 

 Frencli Derby (for which Lord Stamford's Armagnac 

 was favourite) with the great Dollar behind her, and 

 the French Oaks (with Grande Dame, a ' good sort,' 

 behind her), started first favourite (in preference to 

 Lord Clifden, Saccliarometer, The Eanger, Hospodar, 

 &c.) for the Grand Prix de Paris, which, in the estima- 

 tion of some of her ' compatriots,' she certainly ' ought 

 to have won,' and returned to England. There she 

 ran second by a neck to Isoline (three years, 7 st. 3 lbs. 

 each) for the Goodwood Cup and won the Stockton 

 Stewards' Cup. Afterwards she went back to the 

 Continent, where she won the Grand Prix at Baden 

 (again beating the great Dollar), the Prix de I'Empereur 

 at Chantilly (beating the meritorious Orphelin as well 

 as the highly respectable and respected Flibustier), 

 and what is now the Prix Eoyal Oak at Paris Autumn 

 Meeting. Li 1864 she appears to have been in retire- 

 ment ; but in 1865 she ran neither wisely nor too well 

 for the Chester Cup and the Northumberland Plate, 

 being unplaced for both. At the stud, whither she 

 speedily went, she was not a great success. She was 

 the dam of La Calonne, Toucques, Henry IV., &c. ; 

 but she cannot be said to have done much to ' illustrate ' 

 her name, although her daughter La Seine did run 

 third for the One Thousand in 1876. La Toucques won 

 altogether six races, 5,360/. (about) and an ' objetd'art.' 



