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Thousand Guineas. Mr. Keenc, by the saoie anthorlty 

 (Ruf!), won a sum of £5,2IG, besides the vahie of the 

 Grand Prize of Paris. Foxhall ran upon seven 

 occasions, and scored five wins : 



Making a total of - - £10,S70 



When these great stakes had been won, the Ameri- 

 can horses came in for some critici.-^ra, and venturesome 

 persons began to predict a great caieer on the English 

 turf for Transatlantic sportsmen, just the same as they 

 did for Frenchmen when Gladiateur carrieJ of[ tlie 

 triple event of Guineas, D.rby, and St. Leg^r ; but we 

 have notyetseenon theEnglishturf anotherGladiateur. 



An American writer wrote the following very 

 sensible remarks on this part of the questi<ni : 



•'In considering the chances ]\Ir. Lorillard'.s staldc 

 v,-ill have in England, writers for the press do not take 

 into consideiatiuti the vast odds against him. Jt is the 

 height of folly to expect a single stable, with only 

 some two or three tried horses in it, to go to England, 

 meet an army of race-lior>es, and beat the pick and 

 be>t of that country, France and the Continent i)f 

 Euro[)e. We do not bcHeve the English could bring 

 a single stable here and beat the be.>t of this country, 

 and it is a still harder matter to go there and beat 



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