150 T'be American Thoroughbred 



The Ascot and Goodwood Cups are two and one-half miles each ; the Doncaster 

 Cup, originally four miles, was reduced to .three, then to two and a quarter, and is 

 now two miles ; and the Queen's Vase at Ascot is two and one-quarter miles. 



The French horses that won the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire were as given 

 below : 



CESAREWITCH, 2J4 MILES. 



1872 Salvanos 3 years 77 Ibs 



Plaisanterie 3 years 109 Ibs 



Tenebreuse 4 years 108 Ibs 



THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE, i% MILES. 



1861 Palestro 3 years 100 Ibs 



1873 Montargis 4 years 1 1 1 Ibs 



1874 Peut Etre 3 years 97 Ibs 



1876 Jongleur '. 4 years 109 Ibs 



1883 Plaisanterie 4 years 123 Ibs 



The colt Chamant (full brother to Apremont, sent to Australia, and half-brother 

 to Rayon d'Or, St. Leger winner of 1879) was the only French colt to win the Two 

 Thousand aside from Gladiateur, the latter being the only one to win the Derby and 

 the only one, save Rayon d'Or, to win the St. Leger. The Oaks was won in 1864 

 by Fille de 1'Air, in 1872, by Reine in 1876 by Enguerrande and in 1897 by Limasol, 

 a daughter of Poulet. 



Since the above was in type the great English filly. Pretty Polly, winner of four- 

 teen straight races at three years old, has been defeated on French soil by a French- 

 bred colt, a son of Reuil, who was by Energy, a son of the great Sterling. This race 

 was for the Prix de Conseil Municipale, an event at weight for age which is run at one 

 and one-half miles; and which was won in 1901 by Kilmarnock, an American-bred 

 horse owned by Hon. William C. Whitney, of ever-blessed memory. Whether the hith- 

 erto unbeaten daughter of Gallinule was amiss on that day, will never be known. If 

 she was, her trainer was certainly not aware of the fact. It is possible that she had 

 not recovered fully from the voyage across the channel, but the interesting fact is that 

 she finished in front of a dozen horses that had previously beaten the clever little 

 French horse that beat her. The trainer said he had no excuses to offer for the mare's 

 defeat; and, as he is a man of excellent reputation in a general way, the race can only 

 be regarded as one of those miracles that occur at intervals like Vermout's defeat of 

 Blair Athol or Caractacus' finish ahead of The Marquis in the Derby of 1862. Very 

 much depends, both in Europe and America, on the way in which the race is run. 



I still believe that, when it comes down to a regeneration of the British thorough- 

 bred horse by introduction of Herod blood (for they have not got a Herod horse in 

 the whole United Kingdom that is worth one hundred dollars) they will prefer to 

 send to France for it. Mr. Allison has already sounded the key-note by his importa- 

 tion of Pastisson, a descendant of the Flying Dutchman, who was, in my belief, the 

 best Herod horse ever foaled. And yet I am equally strong in the opinion that Ham- 

 burg, son of Hanover, is the best sire from the line of the Byerly Turk that stands 

 upon the green earth. 



