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be remembered, befell M. Lefevre's Versigny at tlie 

 same age (in 1879) and retarded her at her outset in 

 Hfe. Such httle accidents are by no means uncommon : 

 it is on record that the very distinguished Enghsh sire, 

 Snake by name (sire of Mr. Metcalfe's Old Snake mare, 

 that was the dam of Squirt, that was the sire ofMarske, 

 that was the sire of Eclipse), was bitten, or supposed to 

 have been bitten, so badly in early life by some ve- 

 nomous creature (reptile or insect, snake or fly) that he 

 could not be trained. 



Of the chief French winners on French soil besides 

 Bo'iard (who, as we have seen, did not 'come off' in 

 the Two Tliousand, and who was a bad second to Kaiser 

 for the Newmarket Derby, his only two English races 

 that year) there ran in England Eevigny (a bad third 

 to Cremorne and Flageolet for the Ascot Cup), Barbillon 

 (unplaced for the Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket 

 Houghton), and Vincent (beaten by his only opponent, 

 Couronne de Fer, for the Prince of Wales's Stakes at 

 Alexandra Park, where he won the Alexandra Stakes 

 of 230/. in July, and unplaced for the Hinchingbrook 

 Stakes and for the Milton Stakes at Huntingdon). 



Of the other French horses that ran in England, 

 whether belonging to French or English owners, the 

 principal were (independently of the many that pro- 

 secuted the 'jumping business') Mr. Houldsworth's 

 Alaric ; M. C. J. Lefevre's Arrogant, Artilleur, Blan- 

 chette, Borely, Brillant, Clairvoyant, Combat, Eole H., 

 Exile (foaled in England, as the English Prince Charlie 

 in France), Feu d'Amour, Flageolet, Frondeur, Jeanne 

 la Folic, John, La Revanche, Luisette, Maimbville, 

 Manille, Moissonneur, Novateur, Pacha, Planete, Pou- 

 driere, Regane, Peine, Pequisition, Eesistance, Eoquefort, 

 Succes, Tambour, and Tendresse ; various other owners, 



