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was favourite for tlie next year's Englisli Derby ; but 

 Eayon cl'Or was included in a bet of six (Peter, Gun- 

 nersbury, Victor Cliief, Cadogan, Falmouth, and Eayon 

 d'Or) against ' the field,' the name of Sir Bevys being as 

 yet scarcely known. Although the French, unlucky as 

 they were, cannot be said to have done badly in 1878 

 (especially with Verneuil, Monsieur Philippe, and Eayon 

 d'Or) they were not encouraged to make a spontaneous 

 offer of ' reciprocity,' for which Lord Falmouth (standing 

 at the head of English ' winning owners,' with the pro- 

 digious sum of 37,681/. in stakes) probably no longer 

 felt disposed to ask. Next to him came Mr. W. S. 

 Crawfurd with 17,450/., Lord Lonsdale with 14,520/., 

 the Duke of Hamilton (Anglo-French) with 10,880/., 

 Mr. F. Gretton with 9,969/., and the Lagrange-Lefevre 

 ' fusion,' almost ' out of the hunt ' comparatively, with 

 (for them) a poor 9,872/. 



This year the French themselves had suffered in a 

 manner from the ' foreigner ; ' for their Grand Prix de 

 Deauville, which they had for so long kept open to 

 liorses ' de toute espece et de tout pays,' out of compli- 

 ment and ' reciprocity ' towards the disdainful, inappre- 

 ciative, perfidious Albionites, and which was worth 

 nearly 800/., was won by the celebrated Austro-Hun- 

 garian mare ' Kincsem,' the ' Darling,' the most interest- 

 ing, if not the most illustrious, animal of the year. She 

 had already won the Goodwood Cup (worth only 480/.), 

 in very bad time, however, and beating only Pageant 

 and Lady Golightly ; but her owner made a more or 

 less tenable excuse for refusing to match her against 

 Silvio. She was a daughter of Cambuscan and Water- 

 nymph (English sire but Hungarian dam, bred by 

 Prince Esterhazy). She won ten races at two years of 

 age, seventeen at three, fifteen at four, and twelve at 



