The Eighth Marquis of Queensberry 



So far as we remember, the only occasion on which Q-, 

 as the Marquis was called by his intimates, figured in the 

 Grand National was in 1873, the year Disturbance won, when 

 he appeared on the back of True Blue, late Curio, formerly the 

 property of Mr. Reginald Herbert. And full of confidence the 

 Marquis looked, as, riding slowly past the Grand Stand in 

 the usual parade, he kissed his hand in true cavalier fashion 

 to the ladies of his party seated there. 



Alas ! though his rider was good enough, it was quite the 

 reverse with True Blue, who tailed off after landing on the 

 race course, cleared the water all alone, many lengths behind 

 the rest, and finally fell, completely knocked out, soon after 

 getting into the country the second time round. 



If Aintree honours were denied him, however, it was very 

 different elsewhere, the Marquis riding with conspicuous suc- 

 cess at most of the meetings round about London. 



There was one little horse in particular we remember, 

 called Langley (late Chibisa), belonging to Colonel Byrne of 

 the Artillery, on whom, in the early seventies, he won a heap 

 of steeplechases, one after the other. 



Langley, when Chibisa, originally belonged to Lord Stam- 

 ford, in whose colours as a two-year-old he won the New 

 Stakes at Ascot in 1865, after which he ran with varying 

 success, being finally sold at Tattersall's for a "tenner" at a 

 weed out of Lord Stamford's horses to Dick Harrison, a well- 

 known member of the betting ring. 



The horse suffered from a spavin when the latter bought 

 him ; but this was got rid of after a while, and he was eventu- 

 ally sent to Jarvis, the steeplechase jockey, then resident at 

 Harpenden, and put into training once more. When Harpen- 

 den races came round, Langley, whose owner lived in the 

 neighbourhood, was entered for, and ran in the Harpenden 



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