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Alexandre Aiimont. Other excellent Englisli trainers 

 followed the example of these three, or even set them 

 the example ; but these three, or their relatives or 

 apprentices, have undoubtedly trained between them all 

 the most noted horses on the French turf from the days 

 of Lord Henry Seymour to the days of Flageolet and 

 Eayon d'Or ; and that can hardly have been by mere 

 accident. Mr. Carter died, full of years and honours, 

 at Chantilly in September 1879. He was buried on 

 September 28, leaving behind him many of his name 

 and vocation, whether sons or nephews or others, to 

 keep up his traditions — to wit, Messrs. T. Carter, T, R. 

 Carter, R. Carter, F. Carter, &c. It was said of him at 

 the time that he was a man ' dont toute la vie a ete 

 irreprochable ' ('whose whole life was without re- 

 proach ') ; and that is a wonderful saying about a man 

 who had been for half a century or thereabouts ' upon 

 the Turf And, if I were asked to sum up briefly the 

 history of horse-racing in France, I should say that it 

 is a history of English trainers and English jockeys 

 quite as much as of English thoroughbreds. 



