 After a relatively quiet period in the 1870s Day had his last big success with the Kentucky-bred Foxhall who was sent to England in 1880 by his owner James R. Keene.Foxhall was not entered in the classics but established himself as one of the best horses in Europe by beating Tristan in the Grand Prix de Paris in June 1881.Later in the year he won both legs of the Autumn Double.