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and thence to Ilsley in the month of December. The 

 horses of ' Major Fridohn ' left La Morlaye early in 

 September, and, with Sornette and the youngsters 

 Somno and Gantelet among them, were put up at New- 

 market. The horses of the Duke of Hamilton, whose 

 stable was under the protection of the British Hag, 

 partly remained at Chantilly (Gouvernail, Honesty, Sly 

 Fox, &c., are said to have been among them) to the 

 end of the war under the care of Mould, the head ' lad ; ' 

 others, including Monseigneur, Eckmlihl, and Barbillon, 

 left France, under the charge of Mr. Planner, the 

 trainer, and were installed at Lambourne. Some 

 trainers took refuge in the western parts of France, 

 some in Belgium ; some, like Messrs. Cassidy and Thorp, 

 remained — for a while, if not altogether — at Chantilly 

 and La Morlaye. Count de Lagrange's unsold stud 

 horses and brood mares stayed on at Dangu, where the 

 little Flageolet (to say nothing of Combat and Tambour), 

 foaled in 1870, remained with his dam till the armistice 

 was signed, and he went to take his first lessons at 

 Eoy allien. Such, at least, is the account of the French 

 authority. 



With the stoppage of racing the sporting papers 

 naturally stopped ; ' Le Sport ' ceased to appear and 

 was not republished until June 27, 1871. 



Probably a great deal more fuss was made than was 

 necessary ; there could not be any regular race meetings 

 of course, but the fear of having their race horses ' re- 

 quisitioned ' and ' annexed ' by the Germans was probably 

 quite groundless, and Count LehndorfT himself proved 

 how baseless were the charges made against him of 

 ' harrying ' a stud farm or stud farms within a hundred 

 miles of which he had never been. 



Still, for the sake of running their horses, picking up 



