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Moiitaiiiiard, Avliowonthe Newmarket Handicap in 1868, 

 and ' settled ' as a stud horse in England ; Pompier (who 

 was to be the sire of Inval, well known among us, and 

 of other horses, better and worse) ; Le Sarrazin (who 

 was to be the sire of Monsieur de Fligny, greath'- dis- 

 tinguished as a two-year-old at Goodwood in 1875, of 

 Milan, and of other ' cracks ') ; and, high above all, the 

 famous Mortemer (who was to be the sire of St. Chris- 

 tophe, winner of the Grand Prix ; of Chamant, winner 

 of the Two Thousand, &c. ; of Verneuil, Avinner of the 

 Ascot Cup, &c., and whom the Americans were to 

 purchase in 1S80 for 5,200/., or the equivalent in 

 dollars). The accident to which Le Sarrazin owed his 

 birth is singular enough to deserve notice, as a warning to 

 owners and breeders (remembering that Marske, sire to 

 Eclipse, was sold for a song, and Squirt, sire of Marske, 

 was all but shot as worthless — before he begot Marske 

 and Syphon and the dam of Pumpkin, Maiden, and 

 Purity) to be careful how they make dogs' meat of 

 well-bred hoi'ses and mares. Now the dam of Le 

 Sarrazin was Constance (daughter of Gladiator and 

 Lanterne, splendid bi'eeding), an undersized little mare, 

 so despised in her foalhood that it was thought useless 

 to train her ; and when, at the request of Mr. Henry 

 Jennings, her astute trainer, she had been trained and 

 tried on the racecourse, she broke her cannon bone and 

 was to have been shot, when Mr. Jennings again begged 

 her off, and she was sent to the stud, where she first 

 produced (by Nuncio) a fine black foal, called Esteemed 

 Friend (afterwards Le Monsieur), which developed (it 

 is said) into the charger ridden by Marshal Macmahon 

 in his Italian campaign, and then she gave birth to a 

 very numerous progeny, including Fidelite, Monitor, 

 La Favorite, and the aforesaid Le Sarrazin (all by 



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