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won (besides many other great races, so that ' the 

 board ' may be ' swept ') by a Chamant, a Jongleur, a 

 Verneiiil, a Leopold, a Saint-Christophe, or any one of 

 them that may be entered. Such an one was Chamant : 

 he was undoubtedly the best horse of his year, and 

 there is every reason to believe that, had he not met 

 with a mishap, he would not have finished his career, 

 begun so well in 1877 by winning the Two Thousand, 

 without winning ' everything,' like his illustrious com- 

 patriot and predecessor Gladiateur ; instead of which 

 it was his sad fate to be sold into the hands of liis 

 country's deadly enemies, the Germans, in 1878. How- 

 ever he (with t]ie help of other ' compatriots ' and 

 ' foreigners ') fairly frightened the British lion and 

 made him howl in earnest for reciprocity. 



The question had already been mooted and played 

 with, but now a serious appeal was made to the Societe 

 d'Encouragement for an open French Turf, such as the 

 English had always been. 



It is understood that Lord Falmouth, who was now 

 the chief mover, had for some years kept the subject 

 under consideration and had drawn attention to it, and 

 that letters had passed between the English Jockey 

 Club, represented by Admiral Eous (who died in 1877), 

 and the French Jockey Club (Societe d'Encouragement), 

 represented by Count (or Viscount) Paul Daru (who 

 died in Paris, April 18, 1877, just two months before 

 Admiral Rous, and with whom the office of ' vice-pre- 

 sident ' or ' president of the Race Committee ' of the 

 French Jockey Club ceased), for the purpose of bringing 

 about an arrangement, but to no purpose. 



At the end of 1876 the affair was taken up with 

 apparent vigour by Lord Falmouth and other members 

 of the Jockey Club : either all Frencli races were to be 



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