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man,' tlie incapable Scapegrace. As it was Count F. 

 de Lagrange ran three candidates — Zut, Flavio II., and 

 Ismael — and could only get third with Flavio 11. and a 

 bad fourth and fifth with Zut and Ismael. Of course 

 Lord Falmouth, as usnal, had nothing entered ; else it 

 ooes without sayincr that his Wheel of Fortune would 

 have galloped over the whole lot. 



Of the French ' cracks ' specified there ran in Eng- 

 land Zut (won a post sweepstakes of 250/. at New- 

 market Craven, unplaced for the Two Thousand, 

 unplaced for the Derby, unplaced for the Ascot Derby, 

 won the Eacing Stakes of 460/. at Goodwood, unplaced 

 for the St. Leger, like Sir Bevys, unplaced for the Select 

 Stakes at Newmarket Second October, a bad third to 

 Westbourne and Lancastrian for the Newmarket Derby, 

 and unplaced for the Jockey Club Cup won by Jan- 

 nette), Nubienne (implaced for the Cambridgeshire), 

 Salteador (unplaced for the St. Leger), Clementine 

 (unplaced for the Newmarket International Handicap, 

 a bad third and last to Inval and Lord Clive for the 

 Prince of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket First Spring, 

 unplaced for the Ascot Plate, unplaced for the Second 

 Great Challenge Stakes at Newmarket Second October, 

 unplaced for the Great Tom Stakes and for the Autumn 

 Handicap at Lincoln), and that is all. 



T]\e chief, if not the whole, of the other ' French- 

 men ' that ran on the flat in England in 1879 were 

 Afghanistan (? late Dur-a-Cuire, four years). Aigrette 

 (three years). Ascot (two years), Aurelie (two years), 

 Barde (three years, unplaced for the Cesarewitch), The 

 Bear (hurdle-racer and steeple-chaser, six years, unplaced 

 for the Cesarewitch), Beauclair (three years), Bergere II. 

 (three years), Boutade (two years, third for the Snail- 

 ^vell Stakes at Newmarket First October), Cale(5'on 



