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(four years), La Sauteuse (three years), La Seine (two 

 years), Laiirier (three years), Le Champis (six years), 

 Leonide (two years), Lina (two years), Locomotive 

 (three years), Lollijjop (two years). Macadam (three 

 years), Maravilla (three years), Marigny (three years), 

 Marion Delorme (two years). Mercury (two years), 

 Montargis (five years), Myosotis (aged), Papillon (two 

 years), Paremipuyre (three years), Patagon (two years), 

 Peau d'Ane (three years), Peat-etre (four years), Pluton 

 (two years), Poudriere (four years). Premier Mai (four 

 years), Punch (three years), Puysaleine (four years), 

 Pahagas IL. (three years), Recalcitrant (three years), 

 Regalade (three years), Roquefort (aged), Rosette (two 

 years), Roussillon (two years), Saint-Leger (three years), 

 Satisfaction (three years), Suzette (two years), Tamerlan 

 IT. (two years), Vaillance (two years), and Wild Tommy 

 (two years), of which those that obtained more or less 

 reputation at some time or other, whether for sound or 

 unsound reasons, in their own country or in England, 

 have their names printed in italics. 



Let us now pass on to the year 1876, which is one 

 ot the most notable, if not the very notablest, in the 

 whole history of horse-racing in France — partly for 

 what was popularly known as ' the De Goncourt fraud,' 

 and partly because in this year the long-smouldering 

 discontent at tlie succession of French horses upon the 

 English Turf flamed forth in earnest, accompanied by a 

 loud roar for ' reciprocity.' Perhaps it was merely by 

 a happy accident of involuntary prophecy and uninten- 

 tional significance that the filly of Seesaw and Wild 

 Cherry, foaled in 1873, had been named Reciprocity; 

 but, whether or no, the claim had for some time been 

 attracting attention, and the propriety of establishing it 

 had been canvassed, as will be noticed hereafter. 



