^^2 IRISH SPORT AND SPORTSMEN. 



through the paddocks, looking at the brood mares 

 and their offspring as they gambolled o'er the luxuri- 

 ous sward. 



When serving in the yth Hussars, his Lordship had 

 the good fortune to have as brother-officers many 

 sportsmen good and true. In every Irish province, 

 in most English shires, he has performed extraor- 

 dinary feats in the hunting-field. As a matter of 

 course, he has had some very severe falls, but they do 

 not appear to have shaken his iron nerves or damped 

 his keen love for the "noble science." Elsewhere I 

 have written of him as a master of foxhounds. I shall 

 now refer to some of his many exploits on the turf in 

 this country. At the Phoenix Park Military Meeting 

 in 1846, he rode his first race on a filly, named The 

 Witch, belonging to Mr. Littledale; she was second; 

 her owners' Maid of Erskine, piloted by Captain 

 Erskine, winning. That same evening a large as- 

 semblage witnessed a fine race between Colonel 

 Campbell on Nubian, Captain Erskine on Crib, and 

 Lord St. Lawrence on Mouche ; they finished in the 

 order written. Next day, he was second on Vesture 

 to Colonel Campbell on Crib, and immediately after- 

 wards won his first race, riding Crib ; Nubian was 

 second, and four others were " tailed off." Next day, 

 Colonel Campbell, on the Squire, defeated his Lordship 

 on Gadfly, in a match, 50 sovs. aside, one mile and a 

 half, lost. each. He rode six races at this meeting. 

 During the years 1847 and 1848, he did little in the 

 pig-skin. In 1849, ^^ rode his own horse, Paragon, 

 for the Kildare Hunt Cup at Punchestown, and was 

 placed fourth in a field of eight ; and during the next 

 few years was up in several Corinthians, but though a 



