THE CORINTHIAN CUP PICTURE. ^^;^ 



most artistic rider he failed to win races. But so it is 

 on the turf. ** Dame Fortune" never establishes her 

 sex more fully than in her treatment of racing men, 

 she appears to deal out her favours to them in a most 

 capricious, unnatural, and often unjust manner. At 

 the Howth and Baldoyle Meetings, in 1854, Lord St. 

 Lawrence's Brown Bess (Colonel Campbell) walked 

 over for the Tantivy Cup ; and next day, his Lordship 

 rode a grand race on Mr. Atkinson's Borgia for the 

 Renewal of the Warblers, but was defeated by Captain 

 Hutchinson on Kate. The second day, on his own 

 horse, Souter Johnny, he was third in two heats to Mr. 

 ** Cootie" Hutchinson on Matilda — a speedy daughter 

 of Bird Catcher — and Captain Hutchinson on Cyprus, 

 for the Helter Skelter Stakes ; and on the same day, 

 second of sixteen starters, on Souter Johnny, for the 

 Cigar Stakes, to Captain Halton on the favourite, Mr. 

 Whelan's Robber. 



A month afterwards, Lord St. Lawrence won a race 

 at the Heath of Maryboro', defeating several oppo- 

 nents. In 1855, he supplied the favourite for the 

 "feature" of the Kildare Hunt Meeting, the Corin- 

 thian Cup, a mare called Miss Bayley ; Captain Blade, 

 who lately commanded the King's Dragoon Guards, 

 rode her, but she blighted the hopes of his Lordship 

 and a legion of well-wishers by coming to grief at " the 

 double." On the same day, Miss Bayley made a suit- 

 able retraction for her transgression of the morning by 

 winning the Military Cup, beating fifteen opponents. 

 Lord St. Lawrence soon afterwards piloted the winner 

 of the Scurry Corinthians at the Curragh. In 1855, 

 he rode a few races to which I need not refer; but I 

 am sure he never finished better than on Rakeaway, at 



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