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Match'em, Trajan, Dumplin, Bay Malton, Gimcrack, 

 Cripple, Sweet William, Shark, and, above all, PotSos. 



Q. What would you say, then, of the successes of 

 the French, who seem to have had some brilliant 

 triumphs, and of the occasion for any concession on 

 their part to English horses, by way of ' reciprocity ' ? 



A. Brilhant as the successes have sometimes been, 

 I would say that they are small compared with the 

 lavish sums which the French have paid at intervals, 

 during more than a hundred years, for English sires 

 and Enghsh mares, to the great profit of English owners 

 and breeders (like Lord Falmoutli, to whom they gave 

 4,000/. for Atlantic and 7,000/. for Silvio, a very 

 excellent ' deal ' for the lord), and even compared with 

 their expenditure of time, money, and pains since they 

 took to horse-racing in real earnest, in 1833. I would say 

 that the sums they have gained in stakes do not represent 

 even an appreciable interest upon the capital they have 

 invested. I would say that the chief successes and the 

 most money have been won by two Frenchmen only 

 (Messrs. de Lagrange and Lefevre), who, having had 

 costly establishments at Newmarket (where they em- 

 ployed a number of English men and boys), and having 

 owed a great deal to horses ' bred in England,' have 

 been really as much Englishmen as Frenchmen, so far 

 as the turf is concerned ; and that to grudge them, or 

 any Frenchman, their victories and to howl for ' reci- 

 procity 'is both undignified and absurd. I would say 

 it is absurd, because no good could possibly come of 

 ' reciprocity.' If tlie French horses are better than the 

 Enghsh (as the English used to be better than the 

 French), it is surely of no use for English owners to go 

 over to France to be beaten as well as being beaten in 

 England ; and if they do not intend to go over, what is 



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