sprinter? Flatten his arm and shorten up his loin 

 (it is the play of his lumbar arch which gave him his bril- 

 liant gait). What must we do to him to make a stayer of 

 him? Change nearly all his slopes. 



How different from the conformation of Tenebreuse, 

 admirably constructed as a stayer in her entirety and in 

 all of her details ! 



And what a difference in the careers of the two run- 

 ners! 



Le Sancy, unbeatable at a mile and a quarter, to the 

 extent that he scared everybody out and had several walk- 

 overs at that distance, won several good victories at a 

 mile and 9-16, among others the Grand Prix de Deau- 

 ville ; he tried but once at a mile and seven furlongs the 

 Grand Prix de Paris won by Tenebreuse, in which he was 

 not even placed, and it was with such a record that he 

 dared, in 1889, to face Tenebreuse in the Prix Gladiateur. 

 Tenebreuse, winner of the Grand Prix and of all her 

 three-year-old races, except the Prix de Diane ; Tene- 

 breuse, who proved her special aptitude by winning the 

 Cadran, Rainbow, and Cesarewitch, and Gladiateur in 

 1888! In truth, the race was won before it started, and 

 it is hard to understand the mental process of those who 

 started him in such a race and of the players who made 

 Le Sancy favorite. 



All sportsmen of a certain age were familiar with the 

 peculiarities of Le Sancy's conformation; we cannot do 

 better than to refer those who did not know this illus- 

 trious horse to the valuable collection of the " Sport 

 Universel Illustre." In its numbers of May 26 and June 

 2, 1907, on the subject of the role of Maintenon in the 

 stud, this paper gives particularly instructive photographs 

 of Atlantic, of Le Sancy, and of Le Sagittaire. They can 

 convince themselves that the portrait that we have drawn 

 of Le Sancy is absolutely correct. They will also notice, 



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