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for the Trial Stakes at Newmarket First October ; 

 second to Faraway for a free lianclicap at the Second 

 October ; won a sweepstakes from two ' compatriots,' 

 her only opponents, Dutch Skater and Nelusko, at 

 Newmarket Houghton ; third to Agility and Falkland 

 for the Free Handicap Sweepstakes at the same meeting ; 

 third to Musket and Dutch Skater for the Queen's Plate 

 at Shrewsbury, where she was unplaced for another 

 race) ; Boulogne (a bad second to Midsummer for the 

 Newmarket Biennial for four-year-olds, and won, in 

 grand style, the eighteenth Bentinck Memorial at Good- 

 wood from Standarcl-Bearer and Rysh worth) ; Mortemer 

 (won the Stockbridge Cup with consummate ease) ; 

 Dutcli Skater (won the Queen's Plate at Warwick, the 

 Trial Stakes at Edinburgh, as well as the People's Plate, 

 a Plate of 100 guineas at Perth, and ran about half 

 a dozen times besides, unsuccessfully) ; Trocadero 

 (ran a bad second to Sabinus for the Ascot Cup, but 

 won the Alexandra Plate from his sole opponent Sidero- 

 lite) ; Eole H. (unplaced for a two-year-old plate at 

 Newmarket First October, and third for a selling plate 

 at the Houghton Meeting, as well as unplaced for the 

 Second Nursery) ; and General (who gained laurels by 

 running second to Hannah for tlie July Stakes, and by 

 winning the Lavant, the Molecomb, and the Criterion, 

 though unplaced for the Middle Park Plate). 



Of the animals mentioned Bigarreau, Sornette, 

 Dutch Skater, and Eole H. deserve special notice 

 (Mortemer and Trocadero having already been dealt 

 witli). 



But first let it be observed that the Grand Prix de 

 Paris of 1870 was a great triumph for the French and 

 a remarkable race in itself; for though the French 

 were again lucky, as the}^ had (for the usual reasons, 



