THE TURF. 
Octavius and Wanderer, the latter not inaptly named, 
as for many years of his life he was never known to lie 
down, but was generally in action in his box. He was 
a noble specimen of the horse, and one of the best bred 
ones in the world for all the purposes for which horses 
of speed and strength are wanted, being by Gohanna, 
out of a sister to Colibri, by Woodpecker, esteemed our 
stoutest blood. The earl is likewise the breeder of 
honest Chateau Margaux and Camel, ornaments to the 
British turf, and sons of good little Whalebone. Lord 
Egremont won the Derby three times in four years ; 
twice with sons of Gohanna, and subsequently with Lap- 
dog by Whalebone. He has also been three times the 
winner of the Oaks with fillies from his own stud. But 
all this success is not to be placed to his lordship's own 
account ; he received great assistance in all his racing 
speculations from his late brother, the Honourable 
Charles Wyndham, since whose decease the stable has 
not been so successful. 
The late Earl of Burlington (Lord George Cavendish) 
was of great repute on Newmarket heath, as a good 
breeder of race- horses, a very high bettor, and we need 
not add, a most honourable man. His lordship, no doubt, 
had his fancies in his betting, which of course he now 
and then paid for. When he did "fancy his horse," as the 
turf-phrase is, he would risk an immense sum upon him, 
not far short, we have heard, of ten thousand pounds ! 
The late Earl of Stradbroke was one of the keenest 
and best sportsmen at Newmarket, and owner of a large 
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