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races, won not only by ' Frenchmen,' like Gladiateur, 

 and ' Austro-Hiingarians,' like Kisber, and ' Americans,' 

 like Iroquois and Foxhall, but by all people, nations, 

 and languages. Perhaps it was this consideration which 

 prevented Lord Falmouth and his friends from raising 

 another howl for ' reciprocity,' seeing that the French 

 as well as the English appeared likely to be beaten on 

 English ground, that it would consequently be unreason- 

 able to demand from France a ' reciprocity ' which was 

 not to be applied to all the world, and that it would be 

 a mere farce to ask — if asking were even necessary — 

 for such a ' white elephant ' from dwellers in the utter- 

 most parts of the earth. That they should think it 

 worth while to visit England was intelligible, for it was 

 only by beating English horses on English ground that 

 they could gain the credit they wanted. But would 

 they be likely to continue the expensive practice when 

 once they had established their own prestige by ' annex- 

 ing ' England's ? When they had done that, and not 

 before, it might be for English owners to consider 

 whether the time had come for England to no longer 

 consider her soil as the central arena of international 

 horse-racing — the arena on which she would hold her 

 own against all comers — and to sue for ' reciprocit}^' 

 wherever it was not already accorded without any suing, 

 in order that she might pick up a few prizes in foreign 

 lands and learn of the foreigner, whom she used to 

 teach, how to rear and train and race the thorouj^hbred. 

 But though the Frenchman may have chuckled at tlie 

 ' rod in pickle ' for ' perfidious Albion ' in 1881, when he 

 saw Americans victorious and other 'foreigners' amonsf 

 the runners on English soil, he may also have felt a qualm 

 (when he thought of his Grand Prix de Paris and of the 

 additional competitors he would have to encoimter on 



