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the ' colours ' of the Count, came out in such style that he seemed 

 to have returned like a giant refreshed with sleep, and began to 

 show a more formidable front than ever. None of the great 

 races is set down to the credit of his name for that season, but 

 at the end of it he stood third upon the list of ' winning owners ' 

 with upwards of 9,000^, though at a long interval certainly from 

 Lord Falmouth, with more than 20,000L The next year, how- 

 ever, was to show a different score, when the Count headed the 

 list with more than 17,000L to the 10,000/. of Lord Falmouth. 

 The Count's Camelia and Allumette, though only technically 

 French bred, were first and second for the One Thousand ; his 

 Camelia ran a dead heat with the French Enguerrande for the 

 Oaks ; his Braconnier won the Jockey Club Cup, and his two- 

 year-olds Verneuil, Chamant, and Leopold did so valiantly that, 

 Kisber and other ' foreigners ' having won the Derby and other 

 races, the British lion fairly roared for ' reciprocity.' In 1877 

 the Count did very well with Saint-Christophe, Chamant, and 

 Verneuil, and would have done wonderfully well if Chamant had 

 not met with misfortune. In 1878 he — having left the ' fusion ' 

 and headed a partnership, or rather company — did not do so 

 well. In 1879 he did magnificently, chiefly by means of Rayon 

 d'Or, lor he stood at the top of the list, with winnings that 

 amounted to more than 26,000L — about 3,000/. more than Lord 

 Falmouth won. After this the glory departed from Dangu ; the 

 Count and his Company won less and less, and at last, in 1882, 

 there was a dissolution of partnership and a sale of the stud. 

 The sale, unfortunately, was a failure ; for though the Americans 

 gave 6,000/. for Rayon d'Or, the other horses, the brood mares, 

 and the colts and fillies fetched but sorry prices. 



To enumerate all the events won by the Count in his own 

 country and in England would be to enumerate nearly all bub 

 the most insignificant provincial races of both countries, and of 

 course he won both great and small races at the various meet- 

 ings, not once or twice, but year after year. In England he 

 began, to mention only the greater races, by winning the Good- 

 wood Cup with Monarque, in his ' first year,' 1857 ; he won the 

 Newmarket Handicap watli Monarque in 1858 ; he won the 

 Cambridgeshire with Palestro in 1861, a horse that had cost 

 only sixteen guineas as a yearling ; and he had already won the 



