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(which does not always mean that as many as half 

 of them run) for the races of 1873, to say nothing of 

 those that ran for races requiring no previous entry of 

 more than a few days. It is true that he did not win 

 (as he had won the year before) the One Thousand 

 and tlie Oaks, but he is credited by one of his com- 

 patriots with having made (in France and England 

 together), by picking up here a little and there a little, 

 as much as 756,000 francs, or 30,240/., in stakes. That, 

 however, would be little more than a drop in the 

 ocean to an owner with so many horses in training. 

 M. Lefevre's horses w^ere, of course, not all ' bred in 

 France ; ' the following lists will show how he fared 

 with his French and Enghsh horses respectively, or at 

 least with the most notable of them. 



Among those ' bred in France ' Avere — 



1. Flageolet (tliree years : won the Goodwood Cup 

 of 470/., beating two winners of the English Derby — 

 his only opponents, Favonius and Cremorne, but a 

 Cremorne with ' the edge off' — in a canter ; the Grand 

 Duke Michael Stakes of COO/., beating another winner 

 of the English Derby — Doncaster — into ' another 

 street ; ' a Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 600/., beating 

 the reputed ' stayer ' Thorn, his only opponent, and 

 the Jockey Club Cup of 580/., in a canter, both at New- 

 market Houghton Meeting) = 2,250/. 



2. Feu d' Amour (two years, beaten by a neck for 

 the Doncaster Champagne Stakes ; won — like Gladi- 

 ateur — the Clearwell Stakes of 790/., and — unlike 

 Gladiateur, who was beaten therefor — the Prendergast 

 Stakes of 1,200/.) = 1,990/. 



3. Heine (four years ; won the Prince of Wales's 

 Stakes of 150/. at Newmarket First Spring and the 

 Ascot Plate of 695/.) = 845/. 



