206 HUNTING ROUND :\r ALTON. 



Merry Sunshine, is a fine weight-carrying looking 

 animal, with the deep girth and beautiful 

 shoulders of her dam. She was ridden by Lady 

 Middleton, and was a great favourite with her 

 ladyship, Avho is an accomplished horsewoman. 



Emily is a big powerful mare, like breeding 

 weight carriers. She is by Angelus, off Impera- 



The Jockey Club met at Newmarket on the 17tli of October, 

 when the case was put for their consideration in the following 

 terms : — 



" Mr. Theobald's Loutherbourgh having won the Goodwood 

 Stakes this year, and the pedigree under which that horse started 

 in 1837 having been ascertained to be a false pedigree, by an 

 investigation which has taken place since the race, is Louther- 

 bourgh thereby disquahfied, and the second horse, St. Luke, 

 entitled to the stakes ? " 



Those members of the Jockey Club who hud an interest in the 

 race retired, and after considerable discussion, the objection was 

 overruled, and the stakes paid to Mr. Theobald. 



The case is a curious one and it would have been hard indeed 

 for Mr. Theobald to have had his horse twice disqualified for 

 false pedigree. There can be no doubt that the pedigree of 

 Loutherbourgh was correctly given when he ran at Goodwood in 

 18B7, for Mr. Theobald would naturally leave no stone unturned 

 to arrive at the truth after ho had been prevented from running 

 his colt at Epsom. How Lords Jersey and Wharnclifl'e came to 

 tlie conclusion that the Epsom pedigree was the correct oue, it is 

 difficult to understand, and the only way we can account for their 

 opinion, is that they considered that the horse having once been 

 disqualilied for false description was permanently disqualilied. 



The most singular circumstance in connection with tin; matter 

 is that Camel is credited with Lontherbourgh's victoiies in the 

 Calendar for 1838 ; while in the lifth aud subsequent volumes of 

 the Stud Book, his pedigree appears as by Mameluke, dam by 

 Smolensko. 



