240 HORSE-RACING IN FRANCE 



Fontainebleau, of whom great hopes had been enter- 

 tained, and who indeed had at one time been thought 

 the best of his year, was amiss and did not start ; and 

 the same remark apphes to Chamant. Else it had 

 seemed at one time as if the French with six such 

 animals as Chamant, Jongleur, Saint-Christophe, Strac- 

 chino, Verneuil, and Fontainebleau, to say nothing of 

 La Jonchere (another absentee from the race for the 

 Grand Prix) must ' clear the board ' in England between 

 them. But the glory of horse-racing is its uncertainty. 



Of the French ' cracks ' which distinguished them- 

 selves at home there ran in England Jongleur (won 

 the Select Stakes of 410/. at Newmarket Second October, 

 beating Placida, the winner of the Oaks, and the Cam- 

 bridgeshire of 2,155/., beating Belphoebe, winner of the 

 One Thousand), La Jonchere (unplaced for the Oaks and 

 for the Cleveland Handicap at Doncaster), Fontainebleau 

 (unplaced for the St. Leger), Stracchino (unplaced for the 

 Two Thousand, for which he was third favourite, and 

 for the St. Leger), Saint-Christophe (won the Twenty- 

 ninth Triennial at Newmarket First October of 466/., and 

 was beaten into third and last place by Verneuil and 

 Belphcebe for the Jockey Club Cup at the Houghton 

 Meeting), and Verneuil (w.o. for the Drawing-Eoom 

 Stakes of 190/. at Goodwood, third to Jongleur and 

 Placida for tlie Select Stakes at Newmarket Second 

 October, unplaced for the Cambridgeshire, and won 

 the Jockey Club Cup of 530/. easily from Belphoebe and 

 Saint-Christophe). 



Of these horses Jongleur, Saint-Christophe, and Ver- 

 neuil deserve especial notice. Jongleur, after so greatly 

 distinguishing himself, died from the results of an 

 accident in September 1878 (tetanus from running 

 a splinter into his pastern), at the early age of four 



