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New Stakes of 1,151/., the Exeter Stakes of 420/., the 

 Lavant Stakes of 1,000/., and the Hopeful Stakes of 

 807/. = 4,275/. altogether), to Ladislas (winner of tlie 

 Ascot Derby of 1,375/., beating Ossian and St. Blaise; ran 

 a dead heat and divided 382/. for the Midsummer Stakes 

 with Henley at Newmarket ; won the Newmarket St. 

 Leger of 797/., the Newmarket Derby of 767/., and the 

 Jockey Club Cup of 520/., beating Corrie Eoy, Faugli-a- 

 Ballagh, and Dutch Oven = 3,84]/.), and to one or two 

 others. As for poor Count F. de Lagrange, he was 

 'nowhere,' with a paltry 936/. (though second with 

 320,000 francs or 12,800/. in his own country) ; and 

 Chamant had beaten Dangu out of sight. 



The most memorable event of 1883 for the French 

 Turf was undoubtedly the death of Count F. de La- 

 grange, who had received a ' warning,' as it were, in 

 the August of that year (from an affection of the heart) ; 

 and on November 21 he died at his house in Eue du 

 Cirque, Paris. The following sketches of the man and his 

 career are taken from the English ' Standard,' and the 

 French journals ' Le Sport ' and ' Le Figaro.' Between 

 them a full portrait will be obtained of the Frenchman 

 who, though not among the earliest ' fathers of the 

 French Turf,' was assuredly chief among its ' second 

 fathers,' and did more than they all to make it celebrated 

 throughout the world. Said the ' Standard ' — 



Count Frederic de Lagrange, born in 1816, was the son of a 

 distinguished French soldier. General Lagrange, who encountered 

 the English on bloodier fields than those of Newmarket and 

 Epsom, and who, having been created a Count of the Empire in 

 1806, was made a Peer of France by Louis Philippe in 1831, 

 and died in 1836, leaving a large property and four children, 

 Count Frederic and three daughters. With the fortunes of the 

 three daughters we need not here concern ourselves. They 

 married among the French nobility, and their brother, Count 



