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never quite recovered from the effects. He was for 

 many years a contributor to ' Le Sport,' and was the 

 author of many works, among which the ' Dictionnaire 

 du Sport Frangais ' is a real KTrjfxa e? det. 



In 1885 the French ' cracks ' at home were the 

 Marquis de BouthilHer's Eeluisant (three years, winner 

 of the Frencli Derby), M. Micliel Ephrussi's Barberine 

 (three years, winner of the French Oaks and of the 

 Poule d'Essai des Pouhches), M. A. Lupin's Xaintrailles 

 (three years, winner of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains 

 and of the Grande Poule des Produits), Mr. T. Cunning- 

 ton's Extra (three years ; winner of the Prix Hocquart, 

 formerly Prix de Longchamps, and of the Prix Daru), 

 Baron de Eothschild's Aida (three years, winner of the 

 Prix du Nabob), M. C. J. Lefevre's Archiduc (four 

 years, winner of the Prix du Cadran and of the Prix 

 Eainbow), M. P. Aumont's Fra Diavolo (four years, 

 winner of La Coupe at Paris), M. H. Delamarre's 

 Palamede (three years, winner of the Prix Greffulhe), 

 Baron de Rothschild's Lavaret (four years, winner of 

 the Prix Gladiateur), Baron A. Schickler's Escarboucle 

 (three years, winner of the Prix Eoyal Oak) ; and among 

 the two-year-olds the Duke de Castries's Viennois and 

 Aida 11. and M. P. Aumont's Alger, winners of tlie 

 three principal ' Ci'iteriums ' and of the Prix de Deux 

 Ans at Deauville (Alger won the Grand Criterium at 

 Paris and the Prix de Deux Ans). 



Of these ' cracks ' there ran in England Barberine 

 (won the Newmarket October Handicap of 1,500/., un- 

 placed for the Cambridgeshire), Xaintrailles (unplaced 

 for the Derby), and Lavaret (unplaced for the Great 

 Northamptonshire, second to Borneo for the Visitors' 

 Plate at Ascot, won the Suffolk Plate of 147/. at New- 

 market July, won the Midsummer Welter Handicap of 



