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Dollar, and Baron A. Schickler's Sycomore, by Perplexe 

 (both three years, ran a dead heat for the French Derby) ; 

 M. A. Lupin's Presta, by Petrarch (three years, winner 

 of the French Oaks) ; tlie Duke de Castries' Lapin, by 

 Salvator (four years, winner of the Prix du Cadran) ; M. 

 J. L. de F. Martin's The Condor, by Dollar (four years, 

 winner of the Prix Eainbow, and of La Coupe at Paris), 

 M. H. Delamarre's Verdiere, by Idus (three years, 

 winner of the Prix du Nabob) ; M. P. Aumont's Sauter- 

 elle, by Saxifrage (three years, winner of the Prix Gref- 

 fullie) ; Baron Schickler's Sakountala, by Perplexe 

 (three years, winner of the Poule d'EssaidesPouliches), 

 M. Michel Ephrussi's Gamin, by Hermit (three years, 

 winner 'of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains) ; Mr. T. 

 Carter's (the late Duke de Castries') Jupin, by Silvio 

 (three years, winner of the Prix Daru and of the Grande 

 Poule des Produits) ; M. A. Lupin's St. Honore, by 

 Dollar (tliree years, winner of the Prix Pieiset, beating 

 Sauterelle) ; and Comte de Berteux's Upas again (three 

 years, who had won the Prix de Longchamps at Paris, 

 beating Sycomore, before they ran their dead heat at 

 Chantilly). Be it noted, therefore, that Presta, Verdiere, 

 Gamin, and Jupin are the produce of English sires, 

 quite ' like old times.' 



The Grand Prix de Paris of 1886 was a very bad 

 job for the French. It was something like the ' Bruce ' 

 year (1882), when Mr. Eymill's English horse Bruce 

 (for a long while and at the very start first favourite 

 for the Derby) was unable to get a place for the great 

 race at Epsom, and yet was too good in the race for the 

 Grand Prix for the other seven competitors (all French). 

 Tliis year Mr. Vyner's Minting (English) had been for a 

 long while first favourite for the Derby, until he was 

 beaten by Ormonde for the Two Thousand, when he was 



