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the Prix de Longchamps), Gladiateur (four years, 

 winner of wliat is now t]ie Prix Eainbow), Marengo 

 (three years, winner of the Poule d'Essai and the Poule 

 des Prodnits), and Lesbos (three years, winner of 

 what is now the Grande Poule des Produits) at Paris 

 Spring Meeting ; at Chantilly Spring meeting Vic- 

 torieuse (three years, winner of the French Oaks) 

 and Florentin (three years, winner of the French 

 Derby) ; at Baden Etoile Filante (three years, winner of 

 tlie Continental Derby and of the Grand Prix) ; and at 

 Paris Autumn Meeting Etoile Filante (winner of what 

 is now the Prix Royal Oak) and Gladiateur (winner of 

 what is now the Prix Gladiateur), Among the two- 

 year-olds M. Delatre's Finot (afterwards called Champ 

 d'Oiseau) and Count F. de Lagrange's Atalante and 

 Montgoubert had won the three principal ' Criteriums.' 

 Of these animals there ran in England (where alone 

 the proper measure of their qualities could be taken) 

 La Fortune (third for the Goodwood Stakes and a bad 

 third and last for the Bentinck Memorial Stakes at 

 Goodwood) ; Gladiateur (already dealt with), who won 

 all his six races that year, whether in France or in 

 England ; Florentin (unplaced for the Gold Vase at 

 Ascot) ; Etoile Filante (unplaced for the Cambridcre- 

 shire and for a subscription handicap plate at New- 

 market Houghton Meeting) ; Atalante (second for the 

 Spring Stakes at Newmarket First Spring Meeting ; 

 unplaced to Hippia, &c., for the Two-year-old Plate; 

 won tlie Harleston Nursery Plate at Northampton ; un- 

 placed to Viridis, &c., for a Nursery stakes at New- 

 market Houghton ; and second to that good horse 

 Knight of the Garter for the Blankney Stakes at 

 Lincoln) ; and Montgoubert (unplaced to Hermit, 

 Vauban, Viridis, &c., for tlie Eig]ith Stockbridge Bien- 



