FROM THE ' TURN OF THE TIDE ' TO THE ' DECHEANCE ' 159 



years, winner of the French Derby, of the Prix cle 

 Longchamps, of the Prix Royal Oak, as it is now called, 

 and loser by a ' nose ' of the Grand Prix de Paris) ; 

 Jeune Premiere (three years, winner of the French 

 Oaks) ; Nicolet (three years, winner of the Poule 

 d'Essai) ; Trocadero (three years, winner of what is now 

 the Grande Poule des Produits and of the Grand Saint- 

 Leger de France) ; Cerf- Volant (three years, winner of 

 the Poule des Produits) ; Fervacques (three years, 

 winner of the Grand Prix de Paris) ; Auguste (four 

 years, winner of the Prix du Cadran and of what is now 

 the Prix Eainbow) ; Vertugadin (five years, winner of 

 what is now the Prix Gladiateur) ; Euy Bias (three 

 years, winner of more than a dozen races) ; Montagnard 

 (three years, winner of half a dozen or more), and Mont- 

 goubert, winner of the Deauville Cup, beating Euy 

 Bias) ; and among the two-year-olds Pompier (by Eoyal- 

 quand-meme), Virgule (by Saunterer), Le Sarrazin (by 

 Monarque), and above all, for the sake of his later great 

 fame, Mortemer (by Compiegne). 



This was a very notable year in the history of 

 French horse-racing, though their great horses did not 

 do much good in England, and thougli they were no 

 doubt very lucky in that circumstances or highly re- 

 spectable prejudices prevented Hermit, Achievement, 

 Hippia, and other English ' cracks ' from trying con- 

 clusions with them in the Grand Prix. And a very 

 memorable Grand Prix it was. Out of ten runners 

 tliere were but two English horses, D'Estournel and 

 Honolulu (this latter belonging, hov»^ever, to a Frencli 

 owner, M. H. Delamarre, and appearing in our Stud 

 Book simply as the brown colt by Trumpeter and 

 Honduras). The race was extraordinary on many 

 accounts. First of all Fervacques (by Underhand and 



