This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...if not the very notablest, in the whole history of horse-racing in France--partly for what was popularly known as ' the De Goncourt fraud, ' and partly because in this year the long-smouldering discontent at the succession of French horses upon the English Turf flamed forth in earnest, accompanied by a loud ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...if not the very notablest, in the whole history of horse-racing in France--partly for what was popularly known as ' the De Goncourt fraud, ' and partly because in this year the long-smouldering discontent at the succession of French horses upon the English Turf flamed forth in earnest, accompanied by a loud roar for ' reciprocity.' Perhaps it was merely by a happy accident of involuntary prophecy and unintentional significance that the filly of Seesaw and Wild Cherry, foaled in 1873, had been named Reciprocity; but, whether or no, the claim had for some time been attracting attention, and the propriety of establishing it had been canvassed, as will be noticed hereafter. 217 CHAPTER XI. FROM THE HOWL FOR RECIPROCITY' TO THE PRESENT DAY. Ik 1876 the French ' cracks' at home were Baron de Rothschild's Kilt (three years, winner of the French Derby and of the Prix Royal Oak), M. Fould's Mondaine (three years, winner of the French Oaks), M. A. Lupin's Enguerrande (three years, winner of the Poule d'Essai), Count F. de Lagrange's Braconnier (three years, winner of the Poule des Produits--now Prix Dam--and of the Grande Poule des Produits), M. H. Delamarre's Filoselle (three years, winner of the Prix de Longchamps), M. A. Lupin's Saint-Cyr (four years, winner of the Prix du Cadran), Count F. de Lagrange's Nougat (four years, winner of the Prix Rainbow, of La Coupe at Paris, and of the Prix Gladiateur), and among the two-year-olds Count G. de Juign's Charivari II. (by Capitaliste), M. J. Prat's Faisane and Count G. de Juigne's Jongleur, winners of the three principal 'Criteriums, ' and M. A. Lupin's Astree, winner of the Prix de Deux Ans at Deauville. The race for the Grand Prix was very remarkable. Neither French nor English could claim the winner, ...
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