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The inferior quality of the French three-year-olds of 

 1882 might be inferred from the manner in which they 

 would beat one another, witliout rhyme or reason, as 

 seldom happens when there is a really good lot of three- 

 year-olds running, and also from the result of the Grand 

 Prix, in which Bruce, not by any means the best 

 English horse of his year (horse including mare), ' had 

 reason ' easily of the seven French competitors brought 

 against him, though they certainly did not include 

 Mademoiselle de Senlis, Clio, Barbe-Bleue, or Comte 

 Alfred. 



As for this last, the hope of Chamant so far as 

 ' French ' horses were concerned, how he took to 

 humours and tantrums and violence and caused 'errand 

 deceptions ' has already been noticed. In his own 

 country, at three years of age, he was of very little use 

 (though he ran second to Barbe-Bleue for the Poule 

 d'Essai and won the Prix de Meautry at Deauville from 

 some moderate opponents), but in England, after being 

 unplaced for the Two Thousand, he won the Sussex 

 Stakes (with odds of 20 to 1 against him) of 1,042/. at 

 Goodwood, beating Dutch Oven, the favourite at evens, 

 but she afterwards galloped out of his sight at New- 

 market. 



Of the other French horses that ran in England the 

 chief, if not the whole, were Alcindor (two years, un- 

 placed for the July Stakes and for the Rous Memorial 

 at Goodwood), Athalie (two years ; ran ' all over the 

 shop,' but won nothing beyond a selling handicap of 

 101/. at Alexandra Park), Azor (two years, did nothing 

 but ran much), Azur (two years ; unplaced for the Hal- 

 naker Stakes at Goodwood, and did no more), Castillon 

 (five years, unplaced for the Visitors' Plate at New- 

 market and for the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood), Con- 



