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let it be given only to a horse that has won a heat in which he 

 carried off the pahn for vigour, bottom, and speed. 



A subscription for this purpose has been opened by the 

 Societe; it already amounts to 15,000 francs (600/.), which will 

 be expended upon the prizes run for at the races in the first 

 fortnight of May 1834. 



Such were the serious, business-like, patriotic in- 

 tentions which the French Jockey Club professed at its 

 foundation ; and such was the modest ' caisse ' or ' race 

 fund ' with which it commenced ; yet such was the 

 success of its efforts that in 1881 (to take the nearest 

 accounts within reach at the moment of writing this) it 

 gave away in ' prix ' no less than 1,308,000 francs (about 

 52,320/.), and in 1883 about 2,000,000 francs, or some 

 80,000/. Certain expressions which occur in the ' mani- 

 festo ' foreshadow the disputes which would take place 

 between the Societe d'Encouragement and the Admi- 

 nistration des Haras, and which were not settled until 

 — after M. Gayot, the most determined member of the 

 Administration des Haras in 1848, had retired, and 

 General Fleury, as head of the Administration, had in 

 his turn battled aofainst the Societe d'Encouragement 

 — a compromise was effected and it was decreed that 

 from 1866 flat racing (which had been under two sets 

 of ' Eules,' the Administration's for their ' prix ' and the 

 Societe's for theirs) should be under the rules of the 

 Societe d'Encouragement solely, steeple-chasing under 

 the rules of the Societe Generale des Steeple-chases, and 

 trotting under the rules of the Societe pour I'Ameliora- 

 tion du Cheval Fran^ais de Demi-sang. 



To this compromise was probably due the rule 

 (which first appears, if there be no mistake, in the new 

 code drawn up by the Societe in 1866-67) whereby 

 a horse is disqualified for having run a public race in 



