188 HORSE-EACING IN FRANCE 



Nonant, Pretentaine II., Printanier, Pythonisse, Eealite, 

 Souvenance, Turenne, and Valentino, some of which 

 animals ran in the Liverpool Grand National of 1871. 



The names of the horses that at some time or other 

 distinguished themselves on the flat have been printed 

 in italics ; and of the French horses that ran and were 

 sold in England in 1870 some have been noted, but it 

 was impossible to specify every case of sale, whilst, on 

 the other hand, many that were sold did not run, if at 

 all, until later (as in the notable case of Salvanos — by 

 Dollar and Sauvagine — who was sold to Mr. Joseph 

 Eadcliff in 1870, did not run in 1871, and won the 

 Cesarewitch, w^orth 1,515/., in a canter in 1872). The 

 French, however, 'jumped off with the lead' in 1871, 

 for they won the very first race of the year (at Lincoln) 

 with Cura9oa; but the good omen was somewhat delusive. 



It goes without saying that there was no Grand Prix 

 de Paris to run for in 1871 ; and so it was in England 

 alone that the best French and English horses could 

 ' try conclusions.' That year the ' Frenchmen,' not- 

 withstanding the unusually large number (nearly 200) 

 that ran on the flat in England, were not very suc- 

 cessful, not nearly so successful as they were to be the 

 next year. The Duke of Hamilton was in a unique 

 position ; for, though liis best horses were ' bred in 

 France,' he was not, as an Englishman, prevented by 

 his feelings from running them at Baden-Baden, and 

 there, accordingly, he picked up the Prix de la Ville 

 and the Grand Prix de Bade (which had been an annual 

 income to the French) with Monseigneur, the Prix du 

 Ehin with Orthodoxe, the Prix d'Eberstein with Bar- 

 billonne, the Prix des Dames with Wasp, and so on. 



In England M. Lefevre was as yet scarcely ' in the 

 saddle ; ' but lie had added to the horses he had pur- 



