206 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1773- 



the Oaks in 1824, with Cobweb ; the Two Thousand 

 in 1831 and 1834-37, with Eiddlesworth, Glencoe, 

 Ibrahim, Bay Middleton, and Achmet ; the One 

 Thousand in 1824 and 1830, with Cobweb and 

 Charlotte West ; the Ascot Cup in 1835, with Glencoe ; 

 and the Goodwood Cup in 1834, with Glencoe. The 

 fifth Earl died on October 3, 1859, and singularly 

 enough, his son and successor, the sixth Earl, on the 

 24th of the same month in the same year. 



Lord Lowther, who ran Tot for a Jockey Club 

 Plate in 1808, and is famous in Turf annals for 

 winning the Derby of 1831, with the outsider Spaniel 

 (at 50 to 1), beating Lord Jersey's strong favourite 

 Eiddlesworth (at 6 to 4 on), must be he who became (in 

 1844) the second Earl of Lonsdale, President of the 

 Council in 1852, and died in 1872. How much the 

 Turf has been and is indebted to the Lowthers has 

 been shown in the case of Sir J. Lowther, member of 

 the Jockey Club in the ' First Period.' Lord Low- 

 ther's descendant, the fourth Earl, who won the Two 

 Thousand with Pilgrimage, does not appear to have 

 been invited to become a member of the Jockey Club, 

 to the advantage of the Club and to the credit of its 

 discernment. 



Lord Sackville, who ran second with Sober Eobin 

 to Lord Darlington with St. George for a Jockey Club 

 Plate in 1797, was the second Viscount Sackville and 

 fifth and last Duke of Dorset (having succeeded in 

 1815 his young cousin, who met with a fatal accident 



