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Chancellor, Belzebiitli, Faust, Manille, Flageolet, Regane, 

 Eole II., Verdure, Liiisette, and Moissonneur) won 

 16,345/. in stakes in England, and with sixteen English 

 horses (Lighthouse, Tourbillon, Ravenshoe, Trombone, 

 Guimauve, La Meprisee, Fez, Badsworth, Blenheim, 

 Mannington,Drummond, Fifi, Negro, Barford, Houghton, 

 and the ' resurrectionist ' Vulcan) 7,109/., making in all 

 23,454/., and putting him quite or very nearly at the 

 head of all the ' winning owners ' in England, before 

 even Mr. H. Savile, who with Cremorne's Derby and 

 Grand Prix could sum up no more than about 22,465/. 

 in stakes. 



This was a feather in the cap of the French and a 

 triumph for the 'tricolour' of 'Mr. T. Lombard,' who 

 moreover (having already purchased Eegalia in 1871) 

 made this year some capital purchases of brood mares — 

 to wit, Isoline for 100 gs., Feu-de-joie for 800 gs., and 

 Araucaria for 1,300 gs. — for these mares were to be 

 the dams respectively of Braconnier and Saint-Chris- 

 tophe, of Allumette (second to Camelia for the One 

 Thousand), and of Camelia and Chamant. It should be 

 noted, however, that Braconnier (by Caterer), Allumette 

 (by Caterer), and Cameha (by Macaroni), foaled in 1873, 

 really (though unborn) left England with their dams 

 in 1872 and were only technically ' bred in France.' 



In 1873 the principal ' French ' winners in France 

 were M. H. Delamarre's Boiard (three years, winner of 

 the French Derby, of the Grand Prix de Paris, of the 

 Poule des Produits, and of the Prix Royal Oak), M. H. 

 Delamarre's Campeche (three years, winner of the 

 French Oaks), M. P. Aumont's Revigny (four years, 

 winner of the Prix du Cadran), M. A, Lupin's Absalon 

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

 Laffitte's (Major Fridolin's) Sire (three years, winner of 



