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the ten runners, and neither could obtain so much as 

 a place. 



Of the French ' cracks ' mentioned, to the number 

 whereof should no doubt be added Baron Rotlischild's 

 Forum (three years, winner of the Prix du Nabob), there 

 ran in England : Albion (unplaced for the Champion 

 Stakes won by Bend Or, with Scobell second and Iroquois 

 third, at Newmarket Second October), Leon (third to 

 Scobell and Ishmael for the Epsom Grand Prize ; un- 

 placed for the Ascot Derby, won by his owner with the 

 English Maskelyne, and beaten by Iroquois by a neck for 

 the St. James's Palace Stakes), Milan (won the Prince of 

 Wales's Stakes of 297/. at Newmarket First Spring), 

 Promethee (unplaced for the Cambridgeshire, won by 

 Foxall), and Perplexite (unplaced for the Oaks, and won 

 the Newmarket Oaks, beating Corrie Eoy, Josyan, and 

 Bal Gal). 



Of the other French horses that ran in Eng-land the 

 principal, if not the whole, were : Ambassade (two 

 years ; ran often, and won the All-aged Plate of 101/. at 

 Great Yarmouth), Armand (two years, toiled a deal and 

 took nothing), Barhe Bleue (two years, won a maiden 

 plate of 217/. at Newmarket Second October), Bariolet 

 (three years, ran three times to no purpose), BeJli- 

 queux (three years, ran often and won the Norfolk and 

 Suffolk Handicap Plate of 171/. at Great Yarmouth), 

 Billy Pepper (two years, ran four times for nothing), 

 Borest (three years, ran once for nothing), Bouiu (four 

 years, ran three times for nothing). Bras de Fer (two 

 years ; ran three times for nothing, but was second for 

 the Lincoln Cup), Chabhs (two years, ran twice for 

 nothing). Commandant (five years ; won the Great North- 

 amptonshire Stakes of 531/., but, like the gentleman 

 who ' came over with the Conqueror,' did nothing else), 



