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town took place on the next day for the Downshire 

 Cup ; eight started, and there was a grand " set 

 to" between Captain Ricardo on Cameo, Mr. George 

 Knox on Lottery, and Mr. Valentine on Mont-pelier, 

 Cameo won by a head, and Lottery beat Mr. M'Grane's 

 horse by a similar distance for second honours. 



Mr. M'Donogh got Blush Rose in exchange for a 

 worthless hack. She was a speedy mare, and won several 

 races. He appears to have possessed a happy knack of 

 imparting to his pupils that perfect style of horseman- 

 ship for which he himself was proverbial. Some of the 

 best steeplechase riders of the age graduated under 

 him, including Captain Ricardo, Captain Pritchard 

 Raynor, Mr. T. Beasley, Paddy Gavin, and George Gray. 

 Captain Pritchard Raynor, late 5th Dragoon Guards, 

 was a fine horseman, and won several steeplechases, 

 including a few for his preceptor, and, moreover, distin- 

 guished himself highly on two celebrities bearing the 

 name of Blondin,ashe rode one while walking on the tight 

 rope across the Alhambra, and the other successfully 

 round Punchestown and other courses. Mr. M'Donogh 

 purchased Spanish Lord when a yearling, at Lord Stam- 

 ford's sale, for 20 guineas. When a four-year-old he won 

 the Irish Grand Military at Punchestown, ridden by Cap- 

 tain Pritchard (as he was then called). Mr. M'Donogh 

 trained him for that race. His stable-companion, the 

 fashionably-bred Garde Civique, won the Conyngham 

 Cup next day. Captain H. M'Calmont rode him, and 

 he was not backed for a shilling by his owner, who had 

 his money on another of his horses, Ajax. Mr. 

 M'Donogh was second for this race the previous year, 

 with one of the best chasers that ever carried the 

 ''yellow and ruby," Glenavon, a four-year-old. Mr. 



