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English sires and dams to recruit failing French 

 resources. 



If the French had done badly as a rule in their 

 campaign of 1885 in England, their principal repre- 

 sentative, M. C. J. Lefevre, ' took a back seat ' both at 

 home and abroad. In England he occupied among 

 ' winning owners ' the twenty-first place with 5,400/., 

 and in France the seventh with 208,594 francs (about 

 8,343/.), instead of the 492,724 francs (about 19,708/.) 

 of the year before, behind the Duke de Castries, M. A. 

 Lupin, the Count de Juigne, M. Michel Ephrussi, M. H. 

 Delamarre, and the Marquis de Bouthillier, giving just 

 * 944 pounds' to the comparatively 'new-comer,' M. H. 

 Bouy, owner of Plaisanterie. 



To this year, lastly, belongs an announcement which 

 shall be quoted for the sake of those very superior 

 persons who think that anybody who has anything — 

 however remote — to do with horse-racing, the turf, and 

 the affairs thereof must necessarily be an ignoramus or 

 something worse. Be it premised that the extract is 

 from ' Le Sport ' : — • 



Nous apprenons avec plaisir que notre confrere, Madame 

 Grossmann (en litterature Blanche de Gcny),femme du directeur 

 du Tattersall franpais, a ete nommee officier d'Academie, en 

 reconnaissance des services qu'elle a rendus a I'instruction pub- 

 Hque par ses travaux litteraires. 



The year 1886, before the racing season commenced, 

 was notable for an announcement which appeared in the 

 English papers of February 27, from one of which 

 the following extract is taken : — 



The Paris Civil Tribunal on Thursday last pronounced the 

 civil interdiction of Baron Raymond Seilliere, a well-known 

 owner of racehorses, and a banker. Baron Raymond Seilliere 

 was the owner of Roi de la Montagne, Doublon, Fin-Picard, and 



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