THE TURF. 
considerable winner, but his stud is greatly diminished. 
He won the Oaks, with Gulnare, in 1827, and has had 
quite his share of success, being remarkable for very . 
seldom bringing out a bad racer. 
The Lord of Exeter stands first of the Marquises on 
the turf. His lordship has been a great winner, having 
carried the Oaks with Augusta, Green Mantle, and 
Galata, and many of the good things at Newmarket 
and elsewhere ; but, somewhat extraordinary, he has 
never been a winner of the Derby. He breeds much 
from the famous stud-horse, Sultan, his own property, 
whose price, to others, is fifty guineas each mare. 
The Marquis of Westminster, although very well bred 
for it, never signalised himself on the turf, and has 
therefore wisely withdrawn from Newmarket, confining 
his stud, a very small one, to the provincial meetings in 
his own immediate neighbourhood, where it is quite 
right for great lords to make the agreeable. We believe 
that the last time he was at head-quarters was to see his 
horse Navarino win the great two thousand-guinea 
stakes ! His lordship, however, has shone forth, a 
bright star at the eleventh hour, with his famous horse 
Touchstone, having challenged all England with him 
after winning the Doncaster St. Leger. The Marquis 
of Conyngham is a sportsman, and was used to back 
his horses freely, as did the Marquis of Sligo, one of 
the best breeders of them ; but as his lordship belongs 
to the sister kingdom, for the honour of old England, 
we presume, he was not often allowed to win. He, 
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