3IO IRISH SPORT AND SPORTSMEN. 



calendars) is when he is mentioned as having piloted 

 an unnamed horse, by Sir Roger, the property of 

 Colonel Armstrong, for the Corinthian Stakes, at the 

 Curragh June meeting, 1829. He was not placed in 

 a large field ; and after three evenly contested heats, 

 Colonel Gilbert, on Lord Portarlington's Cour de Lion, 

 beat Mr. Disney on Talma. At the Curragh April 

 meeting, 1830, Lord Howth won his first race, and 

 rode himself. It was on Oueensberry. He carried 

 12 St. 131b. for the Corinthians ; five ran. Queensberry 

 was the first, and Lord Portarlington's Dandy, ridden 

 by that celebrated horseman, Captain Petat of the 7th 

 Hussars, was second. For the third heat, Dandy 

 came in first, but the stewards awarded the race 

 to Queensberry ; because, when just near the judge's 

 chair. Dandy turned savage, and caught the stirrup 

 leather and boot of Lord Howth in his mouth, 

 and thus interfered with his chance. 



For several years after this victory his Lordship 

 rode in nearly all the Corinthian races at Irish 

 meetings, sometimes for Queen's Plates too, and 

 frequently in steeplechases in England and Ireland ; 

 and from that time up to his death he always had 

 several race and steeplechase horses in training. At 

 this period, the patrons of the turf were very fond of 

 making matches, and it was not unusual to see 

 eight or ten decided during a Curragh meeting. At 

 a reunion there in June, 1830, Lord Howth's Queens- 

 berry, i2st., beat Mr. Forbes's Snooks, iist., In a 

 match for 50 sovs. each, one mile, owners riding; and 

 on the same day Mr. Forbes's Little Shakes beat Lord 

 Howth's Long Legs in a match of 50 sovs. each, 

 three miles. At this period there were four 



