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years), Eossnaven (two years), Saucisse (two years, un- 

 placed for the Hyde Park Plate at Epsom Spring), 

 Sugarloaf (four years, hurdles), Sutler (three years, won 

 the i\yr Gold Cup of 290/. and the First Welter Handi- 

 cap of 237/. at Newmarket Houghton), Ultima (two 

 years, won the Bedford Stakes of 300/. at Newmarket 

 Second October), Verdurette (four years, unplaced for 

 the Newmarket Handicap won by Thurio), Wild Darell 

 (three years), and Zut (two years, divided a post sweep- 

 stakes of 400/. after a dead heat witli Lancastrian at 

 Newmarket Second October Meeting), making about 

 seventy in number, of which those whose names are 

 ])rinted in italics acquired more or less reputation either 

 at home or in England. Of the winners the majority of 

 course belonsjed to the Laoiranoje-Lefevre ' fusion ' (com- 

 pared with any other single or double ownership) ; all 

 of them, in fact, but Alsace (Mr. Porter's), Boulouf and 

 Clocher (M. Delatre's), Creature (Mr. Cheese's), Faisan 

 (M. J. Prat's), Greenback, Leoline, LoUipop, Pearldrop, 

 and Sutler (the Duke of Hamilton's), Japonica, Mademoi- 

 selle de la Vallee, and Piano (Mr. T. Jennings's), Laurier 

 (Mr. G. Trimmer's), Macadam (the Duke of Montrose's), 

 Monsieur Philippe (M. L. Andre's), O])oponax (Mr, J. 

 Nightingall's), Patagon (Mr. C. Rayner's), Plaisante 

 (Mr. P. Peck's), Pluton (Capt. Stirling's), and Prophete 

 (Lord Anglesey's). The most mysterious of them all 

 was Monsieur Philippe, who, after his meteoric blaze 

 in the Criterion, was thought a great deal of, but dis- 

 appeared at the commencement of his three-year-old 

 career in a cloud of rumour and scandal. Nor were 

 the French much feared for the next campaign in 

 England, notwithstanding Rayon d'Or, Zut, and Mon- 

 sieur Philippe ; for at the end of the season of 1878 

 Peter (to be disqualified by the death of General Peel) 



