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if he had been Mr. ' Snipe,' the ' tout ') by that 

 very club of which his relative, the second Marquess 

 (a Master of the Horse), had been a conspicuous 

 ornament. The second Marquess (who in 1868 suc- 

 ceeded his relative the Earl of Cardigan, the ' Crimean 

 hero ') won the St. Leger with St. Albans in 1860, 

 and the Goodwood Cup with Aventuriere in 1875, all 

 but won the Derby and the St. Leger in 1866 with 

 Savernake (own brother to St. Albans), and, according 

 to superstitious persons, would have won them if the 

 colt had been named when he ran for the Derby. He 

 came out strongly and handsomely in true English 

 fashion against Lord Falmouth and the anti-French 

 party in the controversy (1876-77) about 'Becipro- 

 city.' 



The (third) Marquess of Conyngham (who died in 

 1876) was naturally better known on the Irish turf 

 than on the English ; but he won the Cambridgeshire 

 in 1855 with Sultan, by Crescent, under circumstances 

 (to wit, odds of 40 to 1 against him) which might 

 well earn for his trainer, Mr. William Day (of the 

 well-known house of Day of Danesbury, a jockey, a 

 trainer, an owner, a breeder at the extensive Alvediston 

 stud, and ultimately a literary author), his great 

 character as a trainer of handicap horses especially. 



The (first) Marquess of Westminster (died 1845), 

 who has already been nibbled at as Lord Belgrave 

 and (second) Earl Grosvenor, is he who bred Touch- 

 stone (and was near to having him destroyed, because 



