FROM HOWL FOR ' RECIPROCITY ' TO PRESENT DAY 2G1 



hitherto unbeaten both at two and at three years of 

 age. But for tliis misadventure there can be little 

 doubt that Eayon d'Or would no more have won tlie 

 St. Leger than he had won the Derby, though he might 

 have been somewhat nearer winning the former than the 

 latter ; and but for this misadventure there can be little 

 doubt again that Eayon d'Or's value as a stud horse 

 (when he came to be sold at his owner's death) would 

 not have been rated so high as it was. 



Well, then, on the whole the French horses of 

 1879, though they had not performed so brilliantly as 

 on some former occasions in their English campaign, 

 had done exceedingly well on tlie whole, thanks chiefly 

 to Eayon d'Or, Insulaire, and Oceanic, so that Count F. 

 de Lagrange once more stood at the head of ' winning 

 owners ' in England with the handsome sum of 26,366/., 

 with Lord Falmouth beaten into second place and 

 23,528/. There might have been another howl for 

 ' reciprocity,' but there wasn't. As for M. C. J. 

 Lefevre, he took a very back seat indeed with 828/. 

 only to pay for the cost of his English stud. And so 

 in the first year of rivalry Dangu had beaten Cham ant 

 in a canter. But Chamant was in a comparatively 

 unprepared condition ; in three years' time it would 

 beat Dangu into a cocked hat, with the 15,687/. of 

 1882 against Dangu's 3,175/. For Chamant had 

 Mortemer and Flageolet — a host in themselves — for 

 stud horses, and of brood mares quite a ' galaxy,' 

 including Eegalia, Green Sleeve, Feu-de-joie, Isoline, 

 Araucaria, Contempt, and tutte quante. 



A word must be said about Phenix, one of the most 

 noteworthy French horses of 1879 — not so much be- 

 cause of his performances (though they were very 

 good) as because of the disgraceful riot that took place 



