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the latter with a ' pittance ' of 2,914/., whicli, by the 

 way, would be reduced still further tlie next year — to 

 a miserable 1,500/. 



Well, then, of the French ' cracks ' mentioned there 

 ran in England : Beauminet (unplaced — though actually 

 fourth — for the Two Thousand and for the St. Leger), 

 Versigny (started favourite, but was only second to 

 Elizabeth for the One Thousand, and favourite again 

 but unplaced for the Oaks), Le Destrier (unplaced for 

 the Cesarewitch, and won the Queen's Plate of 315/. at 

 Newmarket against Eidotto, Star, Reveller, and Bracken), 

 Eayon d'Or (w.o. for the Post Stakes of 150/. at New- 

 market Craven, w.o. for the Prince of Wales's Stakes of 

 207/. at Newmarket First Spring, won the Eous Me- 

 morial of 920/. at Ascot, and second to Exeter — though 

 it was 13 to 8 on Eayon d'Or for the Hardwicke Stakes 

 at Ascot), Castillon (unplaced for the Cambridgeshire, 

 for which he was third in favouritism), and Strelitz 

 (unplaced for the Prendergast Stakes). 



The other French horses that ran in England were, 

 for the most part if not altogether : Albion (two years, 

 unplaced for the Breeders' Plate at Newmarket Second 

 Spring, unplaced for the July Stakes, third to Wander- 

 ing Nun and Iroquois for the Findon Stakes, unplaced 

 for the Middle Park Plate, and unplaced for the 

 Criterion Stakes), Basilique (three years, unplaced for 

 the Cambridgeshire), Beauclair (four years), Belliqueux 

 (two years, third for the Great Sapling Plate at San- 

 down Park, unplaced for the Tuesday Nursery Handi- 

 cap, and unplaced for the New Nursery Stakes 

 Handicap at Newmarket Houghton, having won the 

 Exning Two-year-old Plate of 218/. at the Second 

 Spring), Bretonne II. (two years), Cameriste (two years), 

 Clementine (five years, third for the International Han- 



