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third ; Avon tlie Prendergast Stakes of 872/., and with 

 4 lbs. the worse of the weights was third to Paradox for 

 the Dewhurst Plate) — some fourteen in number, of 

 which only Stockholm and Xaintrailles were of much 

 account. The latter, indeed, commonly called ' Entrails ' 

 for convenience, was thought at one time to be a 

 second Gladiateur ; but he was scarcely so much as a 

 second General or Feu d'Amour. 



The campaign of the ' Frenchmen ' in England, then, 

 was a mighty poor one in 1884 ; and Count F. de 

 Lagrange became very conspicuous by absence, his 

 memory consequently very forcibly recalled. France 

 seemed to have retrograded, to have gone back to the 

 old times when a Niviere and a Lagrange came to tlie 

 front and set seriously to work to make French horses 

 respected in England. M. Lefevre no longer seemed to 

 be equal to the work ; he stood second among French 

 ' winning owners ' (with 19,708/.) to the Duke de Castries 

 (with 20,207/.), but among the Enghsh, with French 

 and English horses combined, he had dropped into fifth 

 place with a comparatively shabby 9,789/., less than 

 half of his previous year's 20,563/. 



As for the Grand Prix de Paris, it had again been a 

 great triumph for the Frenchmen, in a certain sense : 

 the tliree English candidates — namely, Mr. Vyner's The 

 Lambkin, M. Lefevre's Brest, and the Duke of Hamil- 

 ton's Loch Eanza — were beaten in a canter by the Duke 

 de Castries's Little Duck, and The Lambkin w^as to 

 win the Doncaster St. Leger. So far so good ; but The 

 Lambkin was by no means a star among winners of the 

 St. Leger ; Saint-Gatien, Busybody, Harvester, and other 

 English ' cracks ' could not, or at any rate did not, run 

 for the Grand Prix, and the winner. Little Duck (a good 

 name for a horse something under seventeen hands high), 



