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' cracks ' in 1864, was a year older than Fille cle I'Air ; 

 Glacliateiir, Le Bearnais, Le Mandarin, Gontran, all 

 more or less distinguished, were a year younger, and 

 the greatest of them was Gladiateur, whose history 

 belongs to the next year, and of whom it miglit have 

 been said, in tlie words of Horace, ' Unde nil majus 

 generatur ipso ; Nee viget quidquam simile aut se- 

 cundum.' But his time has not yet arrived. 



Dollar (son of The Flying Dutcliman and Payment, 

 both ' importations ') had not run in England in 1863, 

 though he liad run twice — very moderately — as a two- 

 year old in 1862. In 1864 he began the year well for 

 M. A. Lupin and the French by winning the Great 

 Northamptonshire Stakes and, after running second for 

 the Worcester Stakes, he and his ' frequent pardner,' 

 Kitchener (the hero of the 2 st. 12 lbs. ' bodily weight' 

 for the Chester Cup of 1844), won the Goodwood Cup 

 and the Brighton Cup and ran second for the Wolver- 

 hampton Handicap. This was the iirst year in which 

 a French horse, carrying full weight for age, had won 

 the Goodwood Cup ; and there was a sort of poetical 

 justice in the fact that the feat should have been per- 

 formed in the colours of M. A. Lupin, who had been 

 the first Frenchman to win the Goodwood Cup at all, 

 in 1853, with an animal ' bred in France,' having a 

 liberal allowance of weight, such as was accorded to 

 Jouvence. What a sire this same Dollar became wit- 

 ness a vast galaxy of winners, including the wonder- 

 fully good racer and sire Salvator. 



All this, added to the doings of the two-year-olds 

 ' bred in France,' several of which have been mentioned, 

 made 1864 a glorious year for the French Turf. But 

 this glory was about to be completely eclipsed by the 

 glories of 1865, in which year the history of horse- 



