The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-17 00:00:00

ling by Birdcatcher out of Pocahontas was purchased by
Lord Portsmouth, through John Day's agency; and the
Racing Calendar will show she did not belie her own
breeding or her purchaser's judgment. Stockwell was the
subject of just such another fight as took place for him at
Grimston not six weeks back. Our allies straggled gal-
lantly for him as they did then ; but the gameness of
Scott, the manager of Lord Londosborough's stables, pre-
vailed in the end, and, risking the consequences of ex-
ceeding his commission by a hundred pounds, his last nod
to Mr. Tattersall secured Yorkshire this famous sire, "and
enabled the Lord of Grimston to boast of two such horses
as were rarely, if ever, known to be in one man's posses-
sion at the same time. At the present moment the Mar-
quis of Exeter's stud is of very limited dimensions, nor is
he likely to increase it at his age. In politics the noble
lord has ever been a most devoted supporter of the great
Conservative party, aiding its operations by every legi-
timate means in his power, and shrinking from no sacrifice
to promote its success. Under successive Administrations
ho has been selected, from his high personal character, to
fill the important offices of Lord Chamberlain of her Ma-
jesty's Household and Groom of the Stole to his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort; and that, like the illustrious
founder of his race, he has been a favourite at Court, may
be judged from the fact of her Majesty having visited him
at Burghley, and stood sponsor to his daughter, the Lady
Victoria Cecil. In the disposition of the 16 livings of
which he is the patron he is animated by no considerations
beyond those of how he can best promote the religious in-
terests of his tenantry, and against sectarianism of any
kind he invariably sets his face. In private life no man is
more respected, although the public have mistaken his re-
serve and shyness for hauteur; in reality, not a member of
his order is less proud and more accessible. Mingling only
with his own set, he is perhaps of opinion that confidence
is a plant of slow growth ; and if he does not bestow it
without consideration, the possessor should value it the
more ; and, blameless in domestic life as he is untarnished
in his public career, if the peers of England set the same
example to society as the Marquis • of Exeter has done in
the discharge of the duties that have devolved upon him,
there would have been a vast diminution of radicalism in
the country, and a great increase of respect for the barons
of the land."

There is little to add to the above description of his
lordship's turf career, the only two animals that have
latterly been prominently associated with the popular blue
and white stripes being Knight of the Crescent and Grand
Cross. His lordship's final appearance on a racecourse was
at Stamford last year, on the occasion of the sale of his
yearlings, sinco which ho has boon, with a few occasional
exceptions, closely confined to the house by the attacks of
the insidious disease (morbus Brightif) to which he ulti-
mately succumbed. We append a list of the principal
nominations which become void through his lordship's
death :

Two Thousand Guineas—Grand Cross.
Ono Thousand Guineas—Queen of Nuts.

THE DERBY—Knight of the Grove, Knight Templar,
Knight Errant, Golden Bloom, Rod Cross Knight, Star of
India, Anatomist, and Dutch Admiral.
THE OAKS—Dovetail, Queen of Nuts, Nightshade, Araba,
and Application.
Doncaster St. Leger—Grand Cross, Dutch Admiral, Star
of India, and Dovetail.
The nomination of Grand Cross, now one of the favour-
ites for the Derby, will not be affected, as he stands in that
race in the name of Lord Burghley, son of the deceased
Marquis; but the Two Thousand and St. Leger engage-
ments of this horse will, as we have stated, fall through,
he having been nominated for those events by the late
nobleman, Star of India also, Ni hose chance in the Derby
is disposed of, will be qualified to contend for the Two
Thousand Guineas Stake, his nominator for that race being
Lord Falmouth.

Lord Exeter's nominations for the great races of 1868
are as follows:—The Derby, 4 ; the Oaks, 5 ; and the Don-
caster St. Leger, 3 entries. Among the spring handicaps,
we notice that the 4-yr-old Amazon is entered for the
Great Northamptonshire Stakes in the nomination of the
deceased, and is therefore void.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACING FIXTI
FEBR

Lincoln Spring
Harrow 2l

MA
Liverpool Spring
Chelmsford Spring Li
West Drayton l9
Bromley

AP:
Northampton
Windsor Spring 4
Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6
Newmarket Craven 8
Curragb.

rRES FOR 1867.
TARY.

Nottingham 2G
Derby
;011.

Chester (continued) 1
York Spring 7
Salisbury
Doncaster Spring ....... 9
Bath
JU:

Epsom Spring 26
Lewos Spring 2B
Oroxton Park 29

Ascot Summer 4
Windsor Summer
Manchester Summer 12
Hampton l3
Odiham l7
Bibury Club lB

Thirsk
Durham .. 22
Newmarket Ist Spring 22
Cattorick
Chester 3O

Harpenden
Epsom Summer
Newton 29
Croydo❑

Carlisle 2
Newmarket July 2
Pontefract
Reading
Liverpool July Meeting 10
Ilungerford
Nottingham July

NE.
I Stockbridgo l9
Chelmsford
Noweastlo ... 25
Uurragli
Worcester Summer 27
IpsWield 27
LY.
Down Royal Corporatn l7
Stamford
Huntingdon 23
Winchester
Southampton-
Goodwood

AUG

Goodwood (continued) 1
Ripon
Brighton .. 6
Brighton Glut) 8
Lewes
Egham ..... l3
Wolverhampton l3
Stockton
Oxford • • ••• 15
Hastings
SEPTEMBER.
Warwick
I
Margate
C urragh
Leicester
Abingdon 5 Newmarket Ist October 2-1
Doncaster
OCTOBER.
Northampton Autumn. 1 I Curragh
Edinburgh Autumn ... 2 Newmarket Houghton
Newmarket 2d October. 7 I Worcester Autumn
Cheltenham l5

York August
Dover
West Drayton 22
Plymouth .... 23
Canterbury
Lichfield . 27
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Tunbridge

NOVEMBER,.
Liverpool Autumn 5 I Leamington Hunt
Shrewsbury ll

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867.
FEBRUARY.

Carmarthen 5 Harrow Spring
Birmingham l2 Dorby
Windsor