FROM THE 'TLTiX OF THE TIDE' TO THE ' DECHEAXCE 1G9 



Consul ; and, wlieii it came to the stud and ' i-eproduc- 

 tion,' Consul was to Glaneur, in the capacity of sire, as 

 Hyperion to a satyr. What made Glaneur's success 

 the more notable was that he belonged to the same 

 ' circonscription ' as Souvenir, and was bred by the 

 same breeder, M. Jules Robin. 



Of the French ' stars ' of 1869 there ran in England 

 Count F. de Lagrange's Consul (fourth — out of five — 

 to Martyrdom, Pero Gomez, and Typhon for the Prince 

 of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, and second to Pero Gom^^z 

 for the Ascot Derby) ; M. Delatre's Cerdagne (second 

 with 7 St. 8 lbs. to Vestminster, the same age, three 

 years, with 6 st. 4 lbs., for the Cambridgeshire) ; Count 

 F. de Lagrange's Le Sarrazin (beaten by his sole oppon- 

 ent, Typhoeus, for the Claret Stakes at Newmarket) ; 

 Count F. de Lagrange's Trocadero (won the Walton 

 Manor Stakes at Epsom, with 9 st. 5 lbs. ; unplaced with 



9 St. 11 lbs. for the Six-mile Hill Handicap at Epsom ; 

 last, save ' disqualified ' Thorwaldsen, for the Ascot 

 Cup ; and second, 10 st. 8 lbs., toEestitution, four years, 



10 St., for the Alexandra Plate) ; Count F. de Lagrange's 

 Florian (unplaced for the Brocklesby Stakes ; second 

 to St. Leonards for the Lincoln Club Cup ; second to 

 Frivolity for the Althorp Park Stakes ; favourite, but 

 unplaced to Hawthornden, &c., for the Hinchingbrook 

 Stakes at Huntingdon ; favourite, and third to Peligi- 

 euse and Thunderstorm, for the Milton Stakes at the 

 same place; and second, 8 st. 12 lbs., to Gamos, 

 9 St. 1 lb., for the Windsor Stakes, second heat, at New- 

 market Second October) ; and Count F. de Lagrange's 

 Ptoquefort (third to Pate and Bonnie Katie for the 

 Blankney Stakes at Lincoln ; second by a neck to Guy 

 Dayrell for the New Two-year-old Stakes at Epsom 

 Spring ; unplaced to Gamos, tfcc, for the Weston Stakes 



