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Excerpt from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. 12 Conspicuous among the young Noblemen who have recently come upon the Turf to replace 'the mighty dead, ' is the Duke of Newcastle; and those who may not have known him personally, will, we are satisfied, readily recognize him on the race-course, from the extreme accuracy of the Portrait which faces this page, and which we consider to be one of the best our artists have yet produced. The Duke of Newcastle was born on the 25th of January, 1834, and succeeded his father as sixth Duke on the 18th of October, 1864. He was educated at Eton, and from thence was transferred to Oxford; and on the nth of February, 1861, he was married to Miss Hope, daughter of Mr. Henry Thomas Hope, of Deepdene, Surrey. His Grace's accession to the Turf began at an age which indicated his passion for it, as in 1856 he had horses in conjunction with Mr. Parr, who trained them at Benhams, near Wantage; and among them were Indifference, a very bad animal, but not badly named; Nerio, a plater; and Gaspard, who ran a dead heat for the Caesarewitch with Sir W. Booth's Artless, his chance being much deteriorated by his having been sent to Paris the previous week to run for the Grand Prix de L'Empereur. His Grace had likewise an interest for a short time in Fisherman, as a two-year old, and likewise when he ran for the Lincoln Handicap as a three, and was beaten by Tame Deer; and had he been enabled to have retained him, we should have returned the Duke a far more frequent winner than we are enabled to do up to the present period. Lupus was another animal that won him a few races; but, on the whole, his career in the Wantage Stable was very unprofitable. After this time family reasons induced the Earl of Lincoln - for he had not then succeeded to the dukedom - to give up keeping horses, and for some little time he was merely a spectator at races. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.