RACING IN FRANCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1855, 10 June 1887, Page 25

RACING IN FRANCE.

LONGCHAMPS.

June 5.

GRAND PRIX DE PARIS,'

Of 400 Boys, given, half by the City of Paris, and half by the five treat Railway Companies, for entire colts and fillies, foaled in 1884, of every description^ and country, added to a sweepstakes ' of 408ovs each ; the second to receive 400sovs, ' and the third 200sovs out of the stakes. Weights —colts, Bst 91b ; fillies, Bst 91b. About one mile " and seven furlongs. 390 nominations. M. Aumont's b f Tenebreuse, by Mourle or Saix- ' • frage— New Star, Bst 6lb ... ... '" ■' ... ■ l Mr Fern's b c The Baron, by Xenophon—Tantrum, 88t 111b ... ... ... a Baron 1 A Shickler's c Krakafcoa, by Thunderbolt— Little Sister, Bst Ulb ... ..."•■'' ... 3 Tenebreuse ran only once last year, in the Prix de la Masseliere, of 147sovs, at Vincenneß, < and was, then unable to gain a place; ■but on April 17 of this year she won the Prix-de ' Bagatelle, of 280sovs, at the Paris Spring meet* > ing, beating half a dozen others very easily. , The Baron's performances were given recently on the occasion, of his running second to Merry Hampton in the English Derby. Krakatoa ran twice last year, being unplaced , in the Prix Triennial, at Fontainbleau, and ; winning the Prix de Blaison, of 140sovs, nt Chantilly on a field of 16. The only English race that Krakatoa is at present engaged in is , the Newmarket Great Foal Stakes, of lOOOs'ove, "" in which he will have to meet Reve dOr, winner of the One Thousand Guineas and Osks, ' Florentine, Maxim, Timothy, Mamia, and other good performers. WINNERS OF THE GRAND PRIX. ' **~J O« itt t^ CO IO *—^ CO **) Ol if CO bS O tD 00 **-J Gi Oi if* CO *t im&zfz&fsin mum silH!lli|ill»y|lMl L; ■ i B* il f*F lirrw|i 3*l l m* ' £3"* n> >— • (p ED cro a trf» a,® £.5 So o ELffP Strc » triers ■; miPf ai% ifiifiiii s - •g. g §rr B -gp, . It will be 'seen that of the 23 times that the . race has been run English owners have won it nine times, while they have run second . to foreign owners with such horses as Blair Athol, St. Blaise, The Lambkin, and others.