164 HORSE-RACING IN FRANCE 



Monarque, and all more or less distinguisliecl on the 

 Turf). She died in 1872, aged twenty-four : breeders 

 ' will be pleased to accept of this intimation.' 



The year 1868 was memorable in the annals of 

 French horse-racing, though the ' Frenchmen ' had not 

 a very brilliant campaign in England and were beaten 

 (by the Marquis of Hastings with The Earl) in the 

 Grand Prix de Paris. For the English it was — in 

 France — the ' Earl's year ; ' for the French it was 

 emphatically ' Suzerain's year.' 



The principal French ' cracks ' in that year Avere 

 Suzerain (three years, winner of the French Derby and 

 of what is now the Grande Poule des Produits, and 

 second to The Earl for the Grand Prix) ; Jenny (three 

 years, winner of the French Oaks) ; Gouvernail (three 

 years, winner of the Poule d'Essai) ; Le Bosphore 

 (three years, winner of the Prix de Longchamps) ; 

 Longchamps (four years, winner of the Prix du Cadran 

 and of what is now the Prix Rainbow) ; Nelusko (three 

 years, winner of La Coupe at Paris and of what is now 

 the Prix Royal Oak) ; Auguste (live years, winner of 

 what is now the Prix. Gladiateur) ; Mortemer (three 

 years, rather on ex post facto grounds than on his three 

 victories at Paris out of ten attempts at various meet- 

 ing's in France and in England) ; and, among the two- 

 year-olds, Consul (by Monarque), Manette II. (by Pretty 

 Boy), and Mademoiselle de Fligny (by Bois-Roussel), 

 winners of the three principal ' Criteriunis,' of which 

 triad Consul was destined to become very distinguished 

 indeed at both post and paddock. 



The year was memorable in France for the com- 

 paratively poor class of the horses that ran in the 

 French Derby, and indeed of the French three-year- 

 olds generally ; for the fact tliat Baron A. Scliickler, 



