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stakes, and exercising the animals in peace, quietness, 

 and freedom, owners and trainers were quite right to 

 ' emigrate ; ' and England was about the only place 

 open to them for the three purposes. 



The French horses, then, that ran in England, from 

 the close of the Deauville meeting to the end of the 

 season, were chiefly (besides General, Boulogne, and 

 others that may have been mentioned already) Croisade, 

 Cherubin, Matelot, La Verzee, Bismarck (by Cobnut), 

 Ballerine, Frederic-Charles, Masaniello, Satanstoe (for- 

 merly M. Delatre's), Roquefort, Capsule, Jarnicoton II., 

 Bellone, Turquoise, Messager, Fidelia ; the Duke of 

 Hamilton's Capitaliste and Monseigneur ; Mr. ' Ken- 

 nington's ' Algerie, Myosotis, Jarnac, Pistache, and 

 Canon ; M. Delatre's Dutch Skater, Eole II., Cerdagne, 

 Luisette, and La Baronne ; the ' Lombard ' stable's (or 

 Mr. T. Jennings's) Nelusko, Alaric, La Neva, Electeur, 

 Manette II., Gascogne, and Manille (be it noted that out 

 of thirteen runners for a selling sweepstakes won by 

 Gascogne at Newmarket First October no fewer than 

 six were ' bred in France ' — to wit, Gascogne himself, 

 Messager II., Satanstoe, Amber, Masaniello, and Mala- 

 testa) ; M. de la Charme's Royaute, Gouache, Mademoi- 

 selle de Saint-Igny, and Meleurge (winner of a Nursery 

 handicap of 400/. at Newmarket Houghton, for which 

 five starters out of fifteen were ' bred in France ' — to wit, 

 Manille, Gantelet, Clotaire, Pensee, and the winner) ; 

 M. Andre's Don Carlos, Fervacques, and Chevreuse ; 

 M. Aumont's Miss Hervina, Pensee, Haydee, and Eneide 

 (won a handicap plate of 200/. at Newarket Houghton 

 against twenty opponents) ; M. de Montgomery's La Ca- 

 lonne. La Eisle, Mademoiselle de Mailloc, and Toucques ; 

 M. Desvignes's Eckmlihl ; M. A. Lupin's Pythonisse, 

 Ilerault d'Arnies, Cantate, Ermeline, Pistole, and Pos- 



