Paris, Oct. 20.
Quite a tragedy of the turf has been enacted over the Prix clu Conseil Municipal, the principal event of the autumn racing season in the Paris district. Mr, Jefferson Davis Cohn, a financier who was associated with the late Lord Michelham im various enterprises and who has hitherto found distraction in keeping race horses, had every reason to think that the Prix clu Conseil Municipal was a good thing for his horse, Dauphin. Mr. Cohn and his friends backed Dauphin heavily, and the noble animal justified their confidence by passing the winning post two lengths in front of Lo Prodige. Mr. Cohn, wearing a beautiful frock coat and silk hat, led in the winner, and for a few brief moments the Cohn camp was pervaded by a fee!- ing that the fruit of long and patient labour was being reaped and that all was for the best in the best possible of worlds. Dauphin's jockey, Sharpe, returned to the weighing room carrying his saddle as usual, and, to the general dismay, it was discovered that he could not draw the weight; and that he was just 4 oz. lighter after the race than he was before began. As the laws of the Medes and Persians are nothing in con:- parison with the laws of racing, the Stewards were compelled. to disqualify Dauphin and award the race to Lo Prodige. The effect of this disastrous event was almost too painful to describe. It was at first reported that the horse br girth after weighing in before going on to the course, and
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