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Directrice, winners of the three principal Criteriiims and 

 of the Prix de Deux Ans at Deauville. 



It should be mentioned here that the old Poule 

 d'Essai for colts and fillies was this year, 1883, split, as 

 it were, into two, and run in two ' bits,' one called the 

 Poule d'Essai des Poulains (for colts only) and the 

 other the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (for fillies only). 

 The opportunity may be taken also of remarking that 

 the Prix du Nabob (a Produce Stakes for three-year- 

 olds) at Paris Spring Meeting was first run for in 1878 

 (when it was won by Clementine, whose success was 

 followed by that of Zut in 1879, Pacific in 1880, and 

 Forum in 1881), and that the Prix Greffulhe (also a 

 Produce Stakes for three-year-olds) at Paris Spring 

 Meeting dates only from 1882, when it was won by 

 Cho. 



It will be convenient also to speak here of what 

 befell Eubens and Fra Diavolo. In June 1883 poor 

 Eubens, having met with an injury to his leg, went 

 nearly mad with pain, and was ultimately found dead 

 in his stable. As for Fra Diavolo, when he came out 

 as a three-year-old in 1884 to win the Prix de Long- 

 champs with ' odds on him ' he was not ' in it,' and it 

 was commonly stated that he liad been ' got at,' ' nob- 

 bled,' ' hocussed,' and so on. Whether it was so or 

 not he ran ' rabbit-like ' — -that is, ' in and out ' — all his 

 career. 



But to return to the French 'cracks' of 1883 that 

 won the chief races at home ; of these there ran in 

 England Pegain (twice, unplaced) only. Of the other 

 French horses that ran in England the chief, if not the 

 whole, were M. C. J. Lefevre's Arbalete (three years, 

 ran a great deal and won one handicap of 187/. at 

 Newmarket Houghton), Count F. de Lagrange's Archi- 



