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called the ' emigration,' both of owners and especially 

 of horses, from France to England or elsewhither ; and 

 brought about the ' decheance ' of Napoleon III., 

 the temporary cessation of horse-racing in France, and 

 the withdrawal of ' Imperial ' from the titles of all 

 French races on which the Emperor's sympathy and 

 mfiuence had been exercised, whether as ' godfather ' 

 or as procurer of subsidies, and which consequently 

 underwent a change of appellation. Hence it is that in 

 the records we find 'Pas couru ' in 1870 and 1871 

 significantly printed in the place where the vv^inner's 

 name is inscribed in other years under names of certain 

 races, and the names themselves altered. Thus we 

 find that the French Derby was ' pas couru ' in 1871, 

 as well, of course, as the French Oaks, the Poule 

 d'Essai, the Grande Poule des Produits, the Grand Prix 

 de Paris, the Prix de Longchamps, the Prix du Cadran, 

 and so on ; and that in 1870 the Prix Gladiateur was 

 ' pas couru,' and that the then principal ' Criteriums,' 

 as well as some other races, suffered the same stoppage. 

 Some races, such as the Grand Saint-Leger de France, 

 were run neither in 1870 nor in 1871. We learn too 

 that, in consequence, no doubt, of ' les evenements,' the 

 ' Prix de I'Empereur ' at Paris became the ' Grande Poule 

 des Produits,' the ' Prix Morny ' at Deauville the ' Prix 

 de Deux Ans,' the ' Grand Prix de I'Empereur ' at Paris 

 the ' Prix Gladiateur,' the ' Prix de I'lmperatrice ' the 

 ' Prix Eainbow ' (after a celebrated sire), and the ' Prix 

 du Prince Imperial ' the ' Prix Royal Oak ' (after a still 

 more celebrated sire, imported by Lord Henry Sey- 

 mour). The inconvenience of giving anything like a 

 dynastic title in a country so liable as France to shocks 

 of revolution and violent changes of Government is 

 illustrated in a remarkable manner by the ' peripeties ' 



