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Hungary.' Moreover Kisber had won the Enghsh 

 Derby ; so that the British hon was very sore indeed 

 and roared aloud for ' reciprocity ' or something to save 

 him from being skinned ahve by these ' fiirriners.' 

 Howbeit Kisber was really not much more purely 

 Hungarian than Braconnier and Camelia were purely 

 French, for both his sire, Buccaneer, and his dam, 

 Mineral, were importations from England, and the latter 

 had been but a year or fifteen months in Hungary when 

 her colt of 1873 was foaled. So that, as far as mere 

 credit due to the breeder was concerned, the British 

 lion could not consider that his tail had been trodden 

 upon much. 



Well, of the French ' cracks ' mentioned there ran 

 in England in 1876 Kilt (third — and a bad third — to 

 Charon and to the nondescript Jester for the Brighton 

 Cup), Enguerrande (ran a dead heat for the Oaks and 

 divided with Count F. de Lagrange's Camelia, 2,150Z. 

 apiece), Braconnier (giving up, as it was thought, the 

 substance of the French Derby for the shadow of the 

 English, ran unplaced — like Petrarch ! — for the great 

 race at Epsom, unplaced for the Cesarewitch and the 

 Cambridgeshire, and won the Jockey Club Cup of 650/., 

 beating Nougat), Filoselle (unplaced behind her ' com- 

 patriotes ' for the Oaks), Nougat (unplaced for the 

 Jockey Club Cup), and Jongleur (ran once and won the 

 Criterion Stakes of 940/., beating his ' compatriot ' Ver- 

 neuil, second, and the Hungarian ' Voltella colt,' a bad 

 third, so that no English competitor — not even the 

 high-priced Sidonia, for whom the ridiculous sum of 

 2,400 guineas was paid as a yearling — could get so 

 much as a place behind three ' owdacious furriners ' in 

 the truly British Criterion Stakes at the home of British 

 horse-racing). 



