208 HOKSE-RACING IN FRATsCE 



C. J. Lefevre's Succes (tliree years, winner of the Prix 

 de Longchamps), M. Fould's Mignonette (three years, 

 winner of the Prix Eoyal Oak), M. H. Delamarre's 

 Boiard (four years, winner of the Prix dii Cadran and 

 of the Prix Eainbow), Count de Juigne's Christiania 

 (four years, winner of the Prix Gladiateur), and 

 among the two-year-olds M. P. Auraont's Soupgon, 

 M. Delatre's Dictature, Baron A. Schickler's Perplexe, 

 winners of the three principal ' Criteriums,' and Major 

 Pridolin's Macaron (winner of the Prix de Deux Ans at 

 Deauville). 



As for the Grand Prix de Paris, the race for it 

 was humiliating to the French, since, though George 

 Frederick and Apology and Atlantic and Couronne de 

 Fer were not in the way, any one of them, French 

 owners could produce nothing able to beat Mr. E. 

 Marshall's very moderate ' Englishman ' Trent, to whom 

 even Saltarelle could only get second. This looks very 

 much as if the French three-year-olds of 1874 were de- 

 cidedly poor ; and the suspicion is confirmed by the 

 sis^nificant fact that Destinee (who won both the French 

 Oaks and the Poule des Produits, now called the Prix 

 Darn, but did not run for the Grand Prix) was the 

 only three-year-old that won more than one of the most 

 important races assigned to lier age. Tins equal dis- 

 tribution is generally, tliough not always, a sign of ' a 

 weak year.' 



Of these French ' cracks ' there ran in England 

 Saltarelle (unplaced for tlie Cesarewitch), Novateur 

 (unplaced for the Stewards' Cup but won the Pacing 

 Stakes of 250/. from his only opponent, Volturno, at 

 Goodwood ; was a poor second to Modena for the 

 Stewards' Cup, handicap, at Brighton ; won the Grand 

 Duke Michael Stakes of 650/. in great style from his 



