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Stakes of 120/. at Wolverhampton, and the Easby Plate 

 of 50/. at Kichmond, Yorks) = 896/. 



6. King of the West (bred in Australia ; the Harrow- 

 Plate of 50/. at Kingsbury July Meeting) = 50/. 



7. Kisber (bred in Hungary ; the Derby of 5,575/.) 

 = 5,575/. 



8. Pirat (bred in Germany ; a plate of 180/.) = 180/. 



9. Preakness (bred in America; w.o. for the Brighton 

 Cupof 100/.)=]00/. 



10. Eegimentstochter (bred in Germany ; the Cope- 

 land Stakes of 230/. at Manchester, a dead heat with 

 Kitty Sprightly, dividing the 540/., for the Exeter 

 Stakes at Newmarket July, having already in the spring 

 won the Prince of Wales's Stakes of 125/. at Ponte- 

 fract) = 625/. 



Total for ' foreigners ' other than ' Frenchmen ' 

 = 8,256/. 



Total for all the ' danged furriners' together 

 = 34,293/. 



This of course was ' very tolerable, not to be en- 

 dured.' Why, it was almost as much as the 34,378/. in 

 stakes that a single English owner, Lord Falmouth, was 

 to win ' off his own bat ' the very next year. 



Wherefore the British lion, represented by Lord 

 Falmouth and other members of the Jockey Club, Lords 

 Hardwicke and Vivian in particular, and Admiral Eous 

 in a half-hearted way, raised a loud roar for reciprocity, 

 though how reciprocity was to mend things it was not 

 easy to see. 



The more the British lion examined the matter the 

 less he liked the look of it ; for not only had the 

 foreigners, and especially the French, whose most pro- 

 minent champions were, of course, the Lagrange- 

 Lefevre ' fusion,' won a pretty large sum of money in 



