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GOULD SECOND IN FRENCH DERBY. Paris. France, June 12. — The Prix du Jockey Club. wliieli is known as the French Derby, ssas ares yeg-terday over the Chantilly course by Baron do Rothschilds Alcantara II., a bay colt by Perth. Frank Goulds bay colt. Combourg. finished second and S. O. Joels Cavallo third. The French Derby Is for three year olds at OSM ami one-half miles. The value of the stake this year was 840,400. Alcantara II. svas the public favorite in the betting. lie svent to the front at the start ami held the load throughout, svinning easily by six lengths. Immense throngs turned out to svitness the run ■lag of the stake, and the brilliant sunshine showed to advantage the gaily colored toilets, which added picturesqueeesa to the scene in the paddock. All the social world of Paris ami many Americans svere present. Special interest centered in the reappear- SSMBS of Baron Maurico do Rothschilds great colt. Earn hour, which, after sweeping all before him. has Leon incapacitated during the last tsso months with a strained tendon. He had been .riven special treatment, hut his trial gallop prior to the running of the Derby revealed that be bail Utile chance.
