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The year 1872 saw racing once more in fnll swincf 

 upon the French courses, and consequently there was 

 a good reason why fewer French owners and French 

 horses should be found running in England. In point 

 of fact the French horses running in England were 

 fewer by a hundred or so, but they acquitted them- 

 selves, whether they were ' settlers ' or only temporary 

 sojourners in England, most admirably. 



The winners of the principal French races were 

 M. P. Aumont's Eevigny (three years, winner of the 

 French Derby and of the Poule d'Essai), the Duke of 

 Hamilton's Little Agnes (three years, winner of the 

 French Oaks and the Grande Poule des Produits),M. A. 

 Lupin's Nethou (three years, winner of the Poule des 

 Produits), M. H. Delamarre's Veranda (four years, 

 winner of the Prix du Cadran) and Faublas (three 

 years, winner of the Prix de Longchamps), M. C. J. 

 Lefevre's Henry (four years, winner of the Prix Eain- 

 bow), the Duke of Hamilton's Barbillon (three years, 

 winner of the Prix Pioyal Oak), M. C. J. Lefevre's Dutch 

 Skater (six years, winner of the Prix Gladiateur), M. H. 

 Delamarre's Clotaire (four years, winner of La Coupe at 

 Paris), and, among the two-year-olds, M. A. Fould's 

 Hydromel, M. A. Desvignes's Demi-Lune, M. C. LaiFitte's 

 (Major Fridolin's) Franc-Tireur, winners of the three 

 principal ' Criteriums,' and, memorable above all, M. C. 

 J. Lefevre's Flageolet, winner of the Prix de Deux Ans 

 at Deauville. 



As for the Grand Prix de Paris of 1872, it was a 

 foregone conclusion for the ' perfidious ' Eneflish, though 

 they had but one horse running ; but that horse was 

 Cremorne, winner of the English Derby, one in a thou- 

 sand, and after him it was vain for Barbillon (though 

 winner of the Prix de Satory), and Peine (though 



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