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all the other candidates — every one ' bred in France ' — 

 Farfadet, Satory, Eegain, Attendez-moi sous I'Orme, 

 Derviche, and Reveuse. Virtually, however, it was a 

 victory for John Bull, a testimonial to John Bull's 

 thoroughbreds at any rate ; for Frontin (by George 

 Frederick and Frolicsome, English sire and English 

 dam) had his ' foundations laid ' in England, before his 

 dam was imported into France. This was a fact for 

 Lord Falmouth and his co-howlers for ' reciprocity ' to 

 ponder upon ; for it seemed that France could not yet 

 quite ' walk alone,' had still to rely upon England's 

 thoroughbreds for something to win her own Derby at 

 Chantilly and her Grand Prix de Paris. And this fact 

 was to be further emphasised by what would take place 

 the next year. 



By the end of April 1883 the best French horses 

 of the year (three-year-olds) were supposed to be 

 Frontin, Farfadet, Florestan (did not run for the Grand 

 Prix and was not seen in England, but he was a beauty 

 to look at, it was said, and not a bad one to go), Chitre 

 (not engaged in any of the great races). Regain, Satory, 

 Skye, Garrick, Vernet, Dard, Soukaras, Stockholm, 

 Malibran, and Eubens ; but few of them, as we have 

 seen, appeared in England, and none of them did any- 

 thing particular there that year. 



The Frenchmen's campaign of 1883, then, in England 

 was not to their very great ' illustration ; ' for though 

 M. C. J. Lefevre once more headed the list of ' winning 

 owners ' in England with 20,536/., giving Lord Fal- 

 mouth (18,434/.) more than a '2,000/. beating,' it was 

 to his English horses, especially to Tristan (7,628/. in 

 England alone), that he was indebted for his score, 

 to Hauteur (won the One Thousand of 2,900/.), to 

 Wild Thyme (won the Woodcote Stakes of 897/., the 



