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The Prince of Wales was never more happily inspired than Suprax Cost when, in a brief speech at the Jubilee dinner of the International Club at Baden-Baden, he welcomed the presence of one or two French owners of horses upon what he denominated the '^ neutral ground Cefixime Suprax of sport.*' It is to be hoped that there will never be need for neutral ground of any kind between France and Eng- land, as has for the last thirty years been the case between France and Germany, and that the close neighbourhood between the two great nations of Western Europe, which has in the past given rise to many a cruel war and many a threat of invasion, Suprax 400 may bring the people of both countries into closer understand- ing and more complete sympathy. Whatever may be the divergent sentiments of French and English on many topics, there can be no doubt that they have a common bond of sympathy in all that relates to sport, and a very strik- ing proof of this was recently afforded at Chantilly when the British Ambassador opened the Social Club which has been built for the use of the many hundred English lads employed in the training stables at the French Newmarket, and when the Senior Steward of the French Jockey Club, the Mayor of Chantilly, and one or two other speakers, dwelt with satisfaction upon the friendly relations which existed between the English colony of trainers and jockeys and the native population. Among the many good sports- men whose earnest desire it is that French and English should live in amity and good fellowship, none can be more thorough and sincere than the subject of this sketch, for Count de Berteux is not only a member of the English as well as of the French Jockey Club, but he is one of the oldest members of the Turf Club, to which he was elected thirty years Order Suprax Online ago. He is a member, too, of the Marlborough Club, and has for many years been the tenant of a grouse moor in Scotland, so that he can claim almost as many friends upon this as upon the other side of the Channel. Count de Berteux comes of an old Breton family, and his father, who was an officer in the Royal I90I.] COUNT DE BERTEUX. 351 Body-guard of King Charles X., had imbibed such thorough -paced Legitimist principles that he Suprax Coupons re- tired from the service at the Revo- lution of 1830, rather than serve the usurper Louis Philippe. Four years later, the subject of our sketch was born, and young Berteux went through his educa- tional career in Paris and studied for the law, passing all his exami- nations very creditably and taking Cost Of Suprax his degree. He never practised, however, and having married soon after the grand-daughter of that distinguished soldier General Foy, he settled down in Paris, and at a small property near Chantilly, which has long been in possession of the family. Having from. his boyhood been very fond of horses, he was, when only seven- and- twenty, elected a member of the French Jockey Club, and in the year following (1862) he began to race, so that he shares with Baron Schickler and M. Delamarre the distinction of being the oldest owner of horses in France. He might, had he so willed, have been his own trainer, for he had thoroughly mastered the prin- ciples Cheap Suprax of how to break and train a horse, and he was, Suprax Price in the opinion of Mr. Mackenzie Grieves, who was no mean judge in these matters, about as accomplished a horseman as any of those who in the days of Count de Berteux' youth were to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne. Suprax 100 Mg The first horse which he owned was named Abricot, and a very curious history attached to him. Count de Berteux, after winning a race or two with him, rode him in the hunting field for several seasons and then gave him to his trainer, who was no other than Ashmall, the celebrated jockey, who died in his service and whose Purchase Suprax Online widow is still living at " Berteux Villa," where the Count stays when he comes to Newmarket. Ashmall rode Abricot as a hack for a couple of years, and he was surprised to find him beating all his youngsters in their morning gallops. The conclusion which he drew from this was that the latter were all hopelessly bad, but Count de Berteux thought it possible that the old horse might have come back to ** form " and put him again into training and, with the happiest result, as two handsome bronzes which stand in Count de Berteux* cosy study in the Rue du Cirque testify. Hav- ing commenced with the letter A, he determined to go through the alphabet, and ' when, after twenty-six years, he had reached the letter Z, he began again, and had got as far as I (for his three- year-olds of 1900), when he deter- mined to dispose of all his horses in training and give up racing, at all events, for a time. It is to be hoped that his retirement is only temporary, for men of his stamp are wanted as much upon the French as upon the English turf, and it is a hopeful sign that he retains his fine breeding stud in Normandy, which has been largely recruited from Eng- lish sources and which has fur- nished him so many winners. It can scarcely be said that he Suprax 200 Mg has had the success which he deserves, but still, writing only from memory, one can quote the names of many good horses which have carried the green jacket and red cap during the last twenty or thirty years, such as Upas, who ran a dead heat for the French Derby of 1886 with Sycamore, and who subsequently Buy Suprax 400mg became the sire of that good horse Omnium II. In the same year that Upas distinguished himself, Count de Berteux had another good three • year - old, named Utrecht, who, unfortunately, met 352 6AJLY S MAGAZINE.