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132 pounds ; but in running for the Hardwicke Stakes at the same meeting over the 
Swinley Course (mile and a half) he was beaten a head by Exeter, to whom he was 
giving to pounds. Thisrace closed his turf career, placing to nis credit a total of 
$122, 140.65. i 
Flageolet, his sire, was a superior race-horse, He won his first race in France at 
two years old, defeating a large field. Won the Hopeful Stakes, one-half mile, at 
Newmarket, 128 pounds; won the Rutland Stakes, three-quarters of a mile, 129 
‘pounds, beating His Grace and two others ; won the Forlorn Stakes, Rowley mile, 128 
pounds, beating Lord Mayo, 122 pounds; won Burwell Stakes, 5 furlongs, 128 
pounds, defeating Amalie Von Edelreich, 122 pounds; was unplaced in Middle Park 
Plate,-won by Surinam. Ran second to Andred in the Prendergast Stakes, Surinam 
and three others behind him, Won the Criterion Stakes, three-quarters of a miley 
defeating Paladin, Kaiser and four others. As a three-year-old ran second to Boiard in 
the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby), and second to him in the Grand Prix de 
Paris in 1873. He was also second to Apollon in the Prix du Cedre, same year. 
Crossing the Channel, he was unplaced in the 2,000 guineas, won by Gang Forward ; 
ran second to Cremorne in the Gold Cup at Ascott ; won the Goodwood Cup, in which 
he beat both Favonius and Cremorne, the Derby winners of 1875 and 1872, He ran 
second to Uhlan in Brighton Cup ; won the Grand Duke Michael Stakes at Newmar- 
ket First October Meeting ; won a free handicap sweepstakes across the flat, and the 
Jockey Club Cup at the Newmarket Houghton ‘Meeting. As a four-year-old he ran 
second to Boiard twice in France ; won the Claret Stakes at Newmarket, England ; 
was second to Boiard in the Gold Cup, and third to King Lud and Boiard in the 
Alexandra Plate, both at Ascot. This closed his turf career. Plutus, his sire, was 
unplaced in the Derby of 1866, but won some races and ran creditably in others. 
Araucaria, Rayon @’Or’s dam, was the dam of Camelia, winner of the 1,000 
guineas, and ran a dead heat and divided the Oaks Stakes with Enguerrande. 
Chamant, by Mr. Lorillard’s Mortemer, out of Araucaria, won the Middle Park Plate 
and the Dewhurst Plate in England at two years old, and at three won the 2,000 
guineas. The blood on the sire side is a combination of Touchstone through Orlando, 
a Derby winner, Bay Middleton, son of Sultan, a Derby winner, Venison and Glencoe, 
through Darkness, a winner of the Ascot Stakes. On the dam’s side, Touchstone, 
St. Leger winner, Priam, Derby winner, and Glencoe, through Pocahontas, dam of 
Stockwell, Rataplan, King Tom, etc. An analysis of the tabulated pedigree will 
show that he is richly and fashionably bred ; he has a double cross of Glencoe, a 
triple cross of Diomed, a double cross of Touchstone, fortified by the blood of 
Whalebone, doubled in upon the Herod and Eclipse blood on both sides to the Byerly 
Mare, dam of the Two True Blues, Rayon d’Or is probably the most magnificent 
specimen of his race ever imported. He is the highest priced horse ever shipped 
across the Atlantic. His cost delivered at his home is little short of $40,000. In 
color he is a rich, true chestnut, with a large, rather faint, star in his forehead, stand- 
ing 16 hands, 3} inches in height. He has a beautiful head, very broad between the 
eyes, with a fine, clean and tapering ear ; neck, long but broad where it enters the 
head ; shoulders well set and broad, with great depth of girth ; good, round barrel, 
with splendid back, hip and loin. His hips will be found broad, with great length 
from the point of the hip to the whirlbone, and thence to stifle and hocks, the latter 
clean cut and well placed, and the finest, soundest and best set of legs ever seen 
under a horse ; in fact, it is one of his great excellent points, and certainly nothing is 
more essential to a good race-horse. Rayon d’Or (Ray of Gold) deserves his name, ’ 
The winnings of the get of Rayon d’Or in 1886, their first appearance on the 
American turf, were $1,965 ; in 1887, $32,955. 
