FROM HOWL FOR 'RECIPROCITY' TO PRESENT DAY 2G3 



Eotlischild's Strelitz, winners of the three principal 

 ' Criteriums ' and of tlie Prix de Deux Ans at Deauville. 



The Grand Prix de Paris of 1880 was a great blow 

 for the ' Frenclimen ; ' for though there were ten 

 runners and only one ' Englishman ' among them, that 

 single exception was ' Eobert the Devil ; ' and ' the 

 Devil among the tailors ' was nothing to the English 

 horse among his French opponents, comprising Le 

 Destrier, the two Milans, Beauminet, Pacific, Poulet, 

 Boum, Versigny, and Arbitre. 



In England, besides, the year turned out to be 

 Bend Or's and Eobert the Devil's. The former horse, 

 belono;ing to the Duke of Westminster, of course was 

 not even entered for the Grand Prix. 



Yet, strange so say, at the outset of the season the 

 French were supposed to have an unusually strong 

 lot and to be very dangerous. Versigny had quite 

 recovered from the ' venomous bite ' of which mention 

 has already been made, and was to be an Enguerrande 

 and a Camelia all in one, and make a dead heat with 

 herself only for the Epsom Oaks. Beauminet was to 

 be a second Chamant, and much more triumphant, in 

 the Two Thousand, and it seemed a thousand pities — a 

 dead loss — that there was something wrong about his 

 nomination for the Epsom Derby. There was Castillon 

 too, whose name had unfortunately been omitted from 

 the great races both in France and in England, but 

 he would, no doubt, make his mark; and as for Le 

 Destrier, he was bound to find a way of astonishing 

 both the natives and the foreigners. But nothing of 

 all this happened, as will quickly appear ; and at the 

 end of the season neitlier Dangu nor Chamant, 

 Lagrange nor Lefevre, had done much on English soil 

 to boast of: the former with 6,722/. to his credit, and 



