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for the Two Thousand (for which M. Adolphe Fould's 

 Vincent ran), or for the One Thousand (for which not a 

 single ' Frenchie ' ran), or for the Derby (to which tlie 

 same remark apphes), or for the Oaks (same remark 

 again), or for the St. Leger (for which both Feu d' Amour 

 and Boulet ran, but could not see the way Apology 

 went). English horses, indeed, M. Lefevre did run for 

 those races, and singularly unlucky he was with them : 

 third — but a bad third — for tlie Two Thousand with 

 Ecossais (a hot favourite, and supposed to be the 

 ' moral ' — which appears to be a corruption of ' model ' 

 in the general sense of ' imas^e ' — of his sire, Blair 

 Athol) ; second by half a length with La Coureuse for 

 the One Thousand, and second with Miss Toto for the 

 Oaks. This was bad luck enouo-h for tearinj? of hair. 

 Nor was there much consolation for M. Lefevre (save 

 in his capacity of compatriot) in the victories won by 

 M. de Caumont la Force's Aurore in the Great Eastern 

 Handicap at Newmarket, and by M. P. Aumont's 

 Peut-etre in the Cambridgeshire, with the big field of 

 forty-two runners, as well as by M. H. Delamarre's 

 great horse Boiard in the race for the Ascot Cuj), as 

 already recorded. And, as Boiard succumbed to King 

 Lud (not dishonourably, however) in the race for the 

 Alexandra Plate, it may be said that the ' Frenchmen ' 

 did not make much of their English campaign of 1874, 

 but narrowly escaped defeat all along the line. It is 

 not wonderful, then, if we find that M. Lefevre stood 

 only third (but still with the respectable sum of 

 14,624/.) to Lord Falmouth (15,775/.) and the Eev. 

 Mr. ' Launde ' (15,275/.) among the ' winning owners ' of 

 1874 in England, especially as the formidable Count 

 F. de Lagrange had once more come upon the scene 



