FROM HOWL FOn 'RECIPROCITY' TO PRESENT DAY 283 



29,500 francs (1,180/.), Dotation to M. Joubert for 

 10,000 francs (400/.), La Farandole to Count Lelindorf 

 for 8,000 francs (320/.), Laure to Count Lehndorf 

 for 7,000 francs (280/.), Aigrette to M. de la Charme 

 for 8,000 francs (o20/.), Caroline to Count de Eobien 

 for 8,000 francs (320/.), Silencieuse to M. Jouljert for 

 7,000 francs (280/.), Ultima to M. Joubert for 10,000 

 francs (400/.), Vengeance to Baron A. Scliickler for 

 8,400 francs (336/.), Verdurette to Count Lehndorf for 

 22,000 francs (880/.), Japonica to Baron A. Scliickler 

 for 13,000 francs (520/.), Doucereuse to Mr. Kronenberg 

 for 9,600 francs (384/.), Hallate to Count de Eobien for 

 6,000 francs (240/.), and Isole to Mr. H. Hawes for 

 6,000 francs (240/.), &c. 



The highest price fetched for a yearling was given 

 for Diplomate (by Saint Christophe and Dotation), pur- 

 chased by Count A. de Montgomery for 30,000 francs 

 (1,200/.), a price which even Mr. Henry Chaplin (who 

 would be much amused at the other prices) would not 

 altogether despise. Diplomate, however, went the way 

 of most high-priced yearlings : at two years of age 

 (having come into the hands of Baron de Eothschild) he 

 ran once, and that once in England, but could do nothing 

 better than a ' bad third ' to Fantail and Votary for the 

 Eound Tower Plate at Windsor ; and at three years of 

 age he did not run at all in England, but ran ten times 

 in his own country, where he did not 'illustrate himself' 

 at all, winning just one (selling) race and being sold 

 for 181 sovs. This may have been ' diplomacy,' but it 

 was not a paying description of it. 



Altogether (twenty lots being withdrawn) the sale 

 fetched 895,000 francs (35,800/.). 



This sale was naturally followed by another (of 

 horses in training and others), which took place on 



