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Prudhomme (five years, won the Chester Cup of 947/., 

 and 170/. at Newmarket), Picador (four years, did no 

 good), Prolixe (tliree years, did no good). Regain (two 

 years, unplaced for the Dewhurst Plate), Risette (two 

 3^ears ; unplaced for the July Stakes, &c.), Salade (two 

 years, did no good). Sutler (aged, won the Eoyal Stakes 

 of 316/. at Sandown Park and the Alexandra Plate of 

 370/. at Doncaster), Talmouse (four years, won two 

 selling plates amounting to 202/.), Uranie (two years, 

 unplaced twice), and Villers (two years ; ran four times, 

 unplaced) — about thirty in number, those whose names 

 are printed in itahcs having acquired some sort of 

 reputation at some time or other either at home or in 

 England. 



The French horses of 1882, then, whether belong- 

 in£f to French or Eno;lisli owners, did not do much to 

 ' illustrate ' eitlier themselves or their ' blood ; ' and the 

 front shown among ' winning owners ' in England by 

 M. Lefevre was due to the prowess of his horses ' bred 

 in England ' — to Tristan (with whom, as a yearhng, so 

 good a judge as Lord Rosslyn was very surprisingly 

 induced to part at a moderate price), to Hauteur, to 

 Ladislas, and so on, the first-named having won (counting 

 a dead heat) nine events and 6,641/. in England (besides 

 tlie Grand Prix de Deauville of 960/.), and the other 

 two having won the Doncaster Champagne Stakes of 

 1,030/., the Clearwell Stakes of 1,067/., and the Dew- 

 hurst Plate of 1,557/. between them, besides smaller 

 stakes. 



Undoubtedly, however, tlie great event of the 

 French Turf in 1882 was the break-up of the ' La- 

 grange ' confederacy and the consequent sale of the 

 Dangu stud, of which Count F. de Lagrange had been 

 either the owner or the director (after a confederacy 



