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the Poule d'Essai), M. C. LafFitte's Franc-Tireur (winner 

 of the Grande Poule des Produits), the Duke of Hamil- 

 ton's Barbillon (four years, winner of La Coupe at Paris, 

 of the Prix Eainbow, and of the Prix Gladiateur), and, 

 among the two-year-olds, Mr. Henry Jennings's Vincent 

 (by Le Petit Caporal), the Due de FitzJames's Aurore (by 

 Plutus),M. A. Lupin's Fideline (by Dollar), winners of the 

 three principal ' Criteriums,' and M. A. Lupin's Perla 

 (by Dollar), winner of the Prix de Deux Ans at Deauville. 

 In France M. H. Delamarre of course stood facile 

 princeps among French owners ; he had outdone 

 himself and his triumphs of 1864 (when he won the 

 French Derby with Bois-Eoussel and the Grand Prix 

 with Vermout), for he had added in this year 1873 the 

 French Oaks to the other two great races. Moreover 

 he had won a very notable Grand Prix with a very 

 notable horse ; for it is a curious fact that, just as Mr. 

 H. Savile had won the first Grand Prix (in 1863) and 

 the first renewal of it (in 1872, after ' les evenements '), 

 so M. H. Delamarre, who had won the second Grand 

 Prix (in 1864) with Vermout, beating Blair Athol 

 (winner of the English Derby), won the second renewal 

 (in 1873) with Boiard, beating Doncaster (another 

 winner of the English Derby) ; and what is more re- 

 markable is that Boiard, who defeated the winner of 

 the English Derby in 1873, was a son of that Vermout 

 who had beaten the winner of the English Derby in 

 1864, that in both cases the beaten winner of the 

 English Derby was a son of the great Stockwell, and 

 that those two beaten winners of the English Derby 

 commanded the biggest prices ever paid for a thorough- 

 bred sire — namely, 12,500 guineas for Blair Athol in 

 1872 and 14,000/. for Doncaster in 1874. Nor was 

 Doncaster even second for the Grand Prix : he was 



