'The French thoroughbred 



completely surpassed him at the stud and this is especially true of Vertugadin, while 

 Gontran, Le Mandarin and Tourmalet, if no better as sires, certainly could not have 

 been so very much worse. Grandmaster was the only son of Gladiateur for whom I 

 would give $200, and he did not resemble his sire in any particular. 



It seems to me that the French are outbreeding the English in some directions, 

 more especially in the way of long-distance races. You go to Longchamps and you will 

 see, each day, at least three races above one mile out of the six or seven on the 

 card of the day. In England you hardly ever see two in one day at distances above 

 one mile, while in America we are living in the reign of the sprinter. Again in the 

 matter of horses of the Herod male line they are as far ahead of us as we are ahead of 

 England. I spent three months in England in 1901 and did not hear of nor see a 

 Herod horse that could command a fee of five guineas. In France I saw only Le 

 Sancy, a gray horse sixteen years old, bred from the male line of Pantaloon, through 

 Windhound, Thormanby, and Atlantic (winner of the 2000 guineas) that was a fine 

 horse in any country. He had the best legs and feet I ever saw under a horse of his 

 age, and his daughter, Semendria, had won the Grand Prix de Paris a few weeks be- 

 fore I arrived there. 



The fact that the French have won six Ascot Gold Cups and three Alexandra 

 Plates in the last forty years, is not without its significance. Besides the highest weight 

 ever carried to victory in an Alexandra Plate (three miles) was by Trocadero, he by 

 Monarque (sire of Gladiateur) out of Antonia by Epirus, from the Ward of Cheap 

 by Glaucus. Monarque got Henry, who won the Ascot Cup of 18725 and Gladiateur, 

 who won it in such sensational style that it was a fruitful source of conversation for 

 the next ten years. The following French-bred horses have won the four oldest es- 

 tablished cups in England : 



THE ASCOT CUP. 



1866 Gladiateur 4 years 122 Ibs 



1871 Mortemer 6 years 131 Ibs 



1872 Henry 4 years 122 Ibs 



1874 Boiard 4 years 122 Ibs 



1878 Verneuil 4 years 122 Ibs 



1898 Elf 2nd 4 years 126 Ibs 



THE GOODWOOD CUP. 



1804 Beggarman 5 years 117 Ibs 



1853 Jouvence 3 years 79 Ibs 



1855 Baroncino 3 years 83 Ibs 



1857 Monarque 5 years 121 Ibs 



1864 Dollar 4 years 126 Ibs 



1873 Flageolet 3 years 105 Ibs 



THE DONCASTER CUP. 



1870 Sornette 3 years 98 Ibs 



Louis d'Or / 7 miles 126 Ibs 



THE ROYAL VASE. 



1852 Leopold 3 years 97 Ibs 



1878 Verneuil 4 years 122 Ibs 



