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Tirailleur, by Rayon d'Or and Tolla, M. Baresse, 1,600 francs 



(64^.)- 



Total : 343,460 francs (13,738L). 



After this, commencing on Monday, February 

 26, there was a sale of ' objets d'art ' won by 

 Count de Lagrange's horses and of various sporting 

 pictures. The ' Lion de Barye,' won by Fille de I'Air 

 (silver-chased), went for 6,905 francs (277/.) ; but, on 

 the whole, the 'objets d'art' had apparently lost about 

 four-fifths of what was their estimated value at the time 

 they were won. Mr. Harry Hall's great picture of 

 Gladiateur was bought by Baron A. Schickler for the 

 Jockey Club (French) at the price of 2,420 francs (about 

 96/.). The bridle in which the great horse won the 

 Derby went for 625 francs (25/.), and the portrait of 

 Fille de I'Air for 655 francs (about 26/.). 



Li this same year 1884 (August) died Mr. Flatman 

 (brother of ' Nat '), the ' doyen ' of English jockeys at 

 Chantilly ; he was seventy-seven years of age. He rode 

 Lion in the dead heat with Diamant for the French 

 Derby of 1856. 



In 1884 the 'cracks' among the French horses at 

 home were the Duke de Castries's Little Duck (three 

 years, winner of the French Derby and of the Grand 

 Prix de Paris), M. L. Andre's Fregate (winner of the 

 French Oaks), M. C. J. Lefevre's Archiduc (three years ; 

 winner of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, of the Prix 

 Daru, of the Grande Poule des Produits, and of the 

 Prix Royal Oak), Count de Berteux's Silex (three years ; 

 winner of the Prix de Longchamps, for which M. P. Au- 

 mont's Fra Diavolo started a great favourite at odds on, 

 but was not placed, and was supposed to have been 

 ' got at '), M. A. Lupin's Yvrande (three years, winner of 

 the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches), M. A. Staub's (Haras de 



