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La Toiicqiies, M. H. Delamarre with Vermont and 

 Vertiigadin in two successive years, M. H. Lunel with 

 Etoile Filante, M. L. Andre with Ruy BLas, Count F. de 

 Lacfrano;e with Trocadero, and M. L. Dehitre with Cer- 



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dagne. The war had cost them or lost them a ' Gold- 

 pohal ' (given by tlie Grand Duke) and about a thousand 

 pounds a year. It was enough to make them turn 

 their swords into ploughsliares and their spears into 

 some other agricultural implement, to call a spade a 

 spade, and to refuse to learn war any more. 



But what were the Frencii ' cracks ' of 1871 ? 



Those that ran in France that year (in the autumn 

 thereof) were Don Carlos (four years, winner of the 

 newly-named Prix Gladiateur), La Perichole (four years, 

 winner of the Grand Prix de Deauville, where tlie war 

 ' didn't make no difference '), and the two-year-olds 

 Revigny (winner of two of the three principal ' Cri- 

 teriums'), Little Agnes (winner of one ' Criterium '), and 

 Seul (winner of the Prix de Deux Ans, lately called the 

 Prix Morny, at Deauville). 



Tiie other ' cracks ' remained in England with the 

 ' emigrants ' (owners, jockeys, and trainers), among 

 whom M. Lefevre might be counted (with his huge 

 bi-national racing-stable), or with English owners, 

 having bought them (pretty freely too) with money. 



Of those specified there ran in England Don Carlos 

 (son of Monarque and Noelie, second to Lumley for 

 the Queen's Plate at Newcastle-on-Tyne, unplaced for 

 tlie Lambton Plate, ' beaten off' for the Cup Stakes 

 at Huntingdon by Lady Masham and Prince Henry), 

 Revigny (son of Orphelin and Woman in Eed, second 

 to Lighthouse for a two-year-old sweepstakes at 

 Newmarket July), and Seul (son of West Australian 

 and Mon Etoile, unplaced to Successful and II Maestro 



