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3^ears (like the Eev. Mr. ' Launde's ' celebrated Holy 

 Friar) ; lie ' should have died hereafter,' for he might 

 have been a great sire. Saint-Christophe (died at the 

 Government Stud, Sees, in April 1883) ran a wonderful 

 double dead heat with Mondaine (four years) for the Prix 

 de Chantilly in September 1877 ; the distance was 

 two miles ^ and twice the judge was unable to separate 

 the determined pair, so that after the second heat the 

 stakes were divided. And Verneuil (whose great year 

 w\as to be the next, 1878) was so powerful an animal 

 that Lord Suffolk (in the ' Badminton Library ') gives 

 the horse's measurement, as follows : height 16 hands 

 2f inches, girth 6 feet 6 inches, round the cannon bone 

 8| inches, fore feet 6 inches across. He was sold (says 

 Lord SufTolk) for 8,000/. to the Austro-Hungarian 

 Government by Count de Lagrange, who missed a 

 telegram (from America) offering 10,000/. for the 

 magnificent animal. M. E. Cavailhon (-Haras de France,' 

 p. 215) says that Verneuil was sold for 360,000 fr., 

 which would be more than the 14,000/. given for 

 Doncaster ! 



Of the other French horses that ran in Eno-land on 

 the flat the most noticeable, if not the whole of them, 

 were Adrienne (three years, Allumette (four years, un- 

 placed for the Bretby Handicap Plate at Newmarket 

 Craven), Arlette (two years, ran ' all over the shop ' 

 to no purpose), Astree (three years, unplaced for the 

 Oaks), Augusta (four years, won the Twenty-eighth Tri- 

 ennial of 500/. at Newmarket First October ; unplaced 

 for the October Handicap, for the Cesare witch, &c.), 

 Bataille (three years, unplaced for the Great Eastern Pail- 

 way Handicap at Newmarket First October), Bijou (four 

 years, unplaced for the Cambridgeshire), Caen (three 

 years), Camembert (four years, second to Trappist by 



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