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its head. It is true tliat many ' lots ' were witli drawn, 

 bnt even then the grand total looks very shabby 

 beside Mr. Blenkiron's 124,620/. (which did not include 

 any horses in training) in 1872 and Lord Falmouth's 

 147,720/. (which does not include 7,000/. paid privately 

 for Silvio) at Newmarket First Spring and July Meet- 

 ings in 1884. The ' break-up ' of the Lagrange con- 

 federacy was ominous of another ' break-up,' that of 

 Count Lagrange himself, whose health had for some 

 time been in an unsatisfactory state, and who was 

 destined to ' go over to the majority ' at the end of the 

 next year (November 21, 1883). 



In 1883 the French ' cracks ' at home were the 

 Duke de Castries's Frontin (three years, winner of the 

 French Derby and of the Grand Prix de Paris), M. H. 

 Delamarre's Verte-Bonne (three years, winner of the 

 French Oaks), Count F. de Lagrange's Farfadet (three 

 years, winner of the Prix de Longchamps and of the 

 Prix GrefTulhe), M. Lefevre's (Haras de Chamant's) 

 Eegain (three years, winner of the Poule d'Essai des 

 Poulains), M. A. Staub's (Haras de Lonray's) Stockholm 

 (three years, winner of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches 

 and of the Prix Eoyal Oak), M. H. Delamarre's Vernet 

 (tln-ee years, winner of the Prix du Nabob), M. Micliel 

 Ephrussi's Rubens (three years, winner of tlie Prix 

 Daru), M. E. Blanc's Soukaras (three years, winner of 

 the Grande Poule des Produits), the Duke de Castries's 

 Seigneur II. (four years, winner of the Prix du Cadran), 

 M. P. Aumont's Mademoiselle de Senlis (four years, 

 winner of La Coupe at Paris and of the Prix Gladiateur), 

 M. Maurice Ephrussi's Bariolet (five years, winner of 

 the Prix Eainbow); and among the two-year-olds Count 

 de Berteux's Sansonnet, (?) Mr. H. Jennings's Infidele, 

 M. P. Aumont's Fra Diavolo, and Viscount de Tredern's 



