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the bottom of liis class witli 1,018/.). Thus on Enghsh 

 soil Charaant had turned the tables completely on 

 Dangu. But meanwhile the famous Dangu stud had 

 come to the liammer, as will appear in the proper place. 



In 1882, then, the French 'cracks' at home were 

 M. Michel Ephrussi's St. James and Count F. de La- 

 grange's Dandin (three years, who ran a dead heat for 

 the French Derby and ' divided '), M. P. Aumont's Made- 

 moiselle dcSenlis (three years, winner of the Prix Daru 

 and of the French Oaks), Baron de Rothschild's Barbe- 

 Bleue (three years, winner of the Poule d'Essai), M. H. 

 Delamarre's Vigilant (three years, winner of the Grande 

 Poule des Produits), M. Michel Ephrussi's Dictateur XL 

 (three years, winner of the Prix de Longchamps), M. H. 

 Delamarre's Clio (three years, winner of the Prix Royal 

 Oak and previously of the newly instituted Prix Gref- 

 fulhe), Count F. de Lagrange'sPoulet (five years, winner 

 of the Prix Rainbow), M. Maurice Ephrussi's, Bariolet, 

 four years (winner of the Prix du Cadran, of La Coupe at 

 Paris, and of the Prix Gladiateur), M. A. Lupin's Cimier 

 (three years, winner of the Prix du Nabob) ; and among 

 the two-year-olds M. A. Lupin's Ontario, Count de 

 Juigne's Madame XL, and M. H. Delamarre's Vernet, 

 winners of the three principal ' Criteriums,' and M. P. 

 Aumont's Chitre (not engaged in the great races of 

 1883), winner of the Prix de Deux Ans at Deauville, 

 beatino; Vernet and Madame XX. 



Of these ' cracks ' there ran in England St. James 

 (unplaced for the Cambridgeshire), Barbe-Bleue (won 

 the Newmarket Xnternational Handicap of 405/. at the 

 Craven Meeting), Poulet (winner of the Lincolnshire 

 IXandicap of 1,611/., and third to Tristan and Sweet- 

 bread for the valuable Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot) , and 

 Bariolet (unplaced for the Goodwood Cup). 



