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only opponent, Leolinus, at Newmarket First October ; 

 was unplaced for the Cambridgeshire and for a free 

 handicap sweepstakes at the Houghton Meeting, and 

 there also was easily beaten by Prince Charlie with 

 Montargis to make a third for the All-aged Stakes), 

 Sabre (unplaced for the All-aged Trial Selling Stakes 

 at Newmarket Houghton), Mignonette (unplaced for 

 the Cambridgeshire), Boiard (set the seal to his fame 

 by winning in splendid fashion the Ascot Cup, with 

 Flageolet and Doncaster running a dead heat behind 

 him in front of such ' cracks ' as Gang Forward, Marie 

 Stuart, and Kaiser, but was most unexpectedly beaten 

 [four years, 9 st. 5 lbs.] by King Lud [five years, 9 st. 

 6 lbs.] for the Alexandra Plate), Christiania (an un- 

 successful candidate for the Queen's Plate and for the 

 Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket), and Per^^lexe (whose 

 chance of the Middle Park Plate was correctly estimated 

 at about 40 to 1). 



Of the other French horses that ran in Encjland it 

 has already been stated that the promising Feu d'Amour 

 (unplaced for the St. Leger) had gone all to pieces. 

 Then there was Flageolet, M. Lefevre's pride ; if he 

 went over to his own country (where he was always 

 unfortunate — where at any rate lie was often unsuc- 

 cessful) it was only to be beaten by Boiard, and in 

 England (though he won the Claret Stakes at New- 

 market against Gang Forward and Negro) he could do 

 no better than make a dead heat witli Doncaster for 

 second in the Ascot Cup, and ran a bad third for the 

 Alexandra Plate, in both cases having the tail of the 

 said Boiard to contemplate. Not a single genuine 

 ' Frenchman ' (out of tlie score or so that might have 

 carried the colours of M. Lefevre, and out of the few 

 entered by other French owners) made a decent bid 



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