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Second October and second to Milan for tlie Newmarket 

 Derby, and won the Free Handicap of 750/. at the 

 Houghton Meeting), Prologue (four years ; unplaced 

 for the Newmarket Handicap, &c.), Quarteronne (two 

 years ; won the Wakefield Lawn Selling Stakes of 145/. 

 at Northampton, the Nursery Plate Handicap of 102/. 

 at Leicester as well as the Curzon Nursery Handicap of 

 102/., and the Chesterfield Nursery Handicap Plate of 

 195/. at Derby), Eegine (two years), Reglisse (three 

 years), Regrettee (two years, won the Two-year-old 

 Stakes of 227/. at Newmarket First Spring), Ptita (two 

 years), Saint-Firniin (two years), Saint-Laurent (two 

 years, won a Two-year-old Selling Plate of 127/. at 

 Newmarket First Spring), Sutler (five years ; won the 

 Datchet Handicap Plate of 147/. at Windsor ; won the 

 Ditch Mile Handicap Plate of 102/. at Newmarket 

 Second Spring ; won the Stewards' Cup of 188/. at 

 Sandown Park, the Sandown Autumn Cup of 190/., and 

 the Oatlands Midweight Handicap of 227/.), Tafna 

 (three years, won the Fern Hill Stakes at Ascot of 380/.), 

 Tototte (two years), and Zut (third and last behind 

 Isonomy and Chippendale for the Ascot Cup) — about 

 fifty in number, those whose names are printed in 

 italics having acquired more or less reputation at some 

 time or other either in tlieir own country or in England. 



Flageolet, it should be observed, was the sire of the 

 chief ' cracks,' except Castillon, Courtois, Oceanic, and 

 Voilette ; he was the sire of Beauminet, Eayon d'Or, 

 Eegrettee, Versigny, Le Destrier, Zut, and he stood at 

 the head of the French 'winning sires' in 1880 with 

 some 530,000 francs, or 21,200/., in Stakes to the credit 

 of his produce. 



As regards Beauminet, it should be added that his 

 ' compatriots ' were not at all pleased at his not being 



