Possible Clues:

• Fabled come-from-behind race-winner
• It's wrong for one to stay in one's shell and be so slow over the river in France
• Shelley, perhaps, lacked the velocity for this
• Reptile seen in wrong part of France
• Fabled racer
• 4's wrong sound with head tucked away
• She brought Respect to the chart
• Expected to be slow - so it tore around!
• Animal making to get up? It's about to
• A slow one to rise to dress