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GENTLEMEN RIDERS.
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Known as one of the hardest and bost riders over Leicestershire, Colonel the Hon. William Lawson rode his first race as a subaltern of the Scots Guards in 1893 Heywood Lonsdale, of Of speculation on the origin of steeplechasing the Grenadiers, won over a fine line in the. there is no end, but some think the first match Pytchley country'; Mr. Lawson, as he then was, over obstacles was brought off-appropriately enought-in Iroland, between Mr. Callaghan came in second on Dundalk, a ava-year-old grey and Mr. Edward Bako, from Butterant Charel horse, by Brown Prince, bought from ac to St. Leger Church, or a four miles chase from Mahon, of Castleblayney: Lord Amaly, always one steeple to the other. As early as 1607 it is a frat-class man to hounds, came in third, after recorded that Lord Haddington went to Hun making all the running, and clearing what was tingdon to a match of hunting against my supposed to be "an unjumpable bottom. On another occasion the same race, a point-to-point, Lord of Sheffield's horso." It is clear that "gentlemen riders" have ever preferred going in which the First Brigade of Guards sent six across country to more racing on the flat, and picked rides from each regiment, was held near nearly all the early steeplechases were Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's house in the a race in 1792 which Whaddon Chase country, in deep snow, and fairly started the 2010 modern fashion. almost the only man who got over the broek will It was very property in Leicestershire; and Mr. Lawson, only, however, to jump inte i drift in a stiff eight miles from Birkby Helt and fall three fences from home, leaving Captain to the Coplow and back, Charles Moynellir. Lawson got up again, and finished fourth Mildmay, of the Grenadiers, win; but (son of the famous Hago) beat Lord Forester and Bir Gilbert Heathcote. They were the real behind Lord Annaly and Captain Bourerio, forerunners of the great St. Albans era, which
He won outright, after many attempts, when bogan in 1830, owing to the sporting proclivities the same race was held at Burrough Hill, of some officers in the Hauohiold Cavalry at the the Quorn country, on Result, by Tamerlane, Turf Hotel, and was crystallised into an annual his dam by Marksman, riding 13st 8. At moeting by Thomas Coleman in the following that weight he could, of course, only ride is your. The bright particular stare of this the regimental races, but he owned such good Ferer, St. Valentine, Traveller's most brilliant epoch of the
winners Kestral, who gentlemen rider, are
Grand rightly biographies the chapters just written by Mr. John is in International si Sandown. A wenderful hunter of his was Arab King; and Dirklampton, who Richardson and Mr. Finch Mason, and
was hunted by Mr. Lawson as a four-year-old, published by Mesra. Vinton and Co. They are
won the Great Fangor and the Leicestershiro as fascinating and delightful as the name of the joint authors could suggest; for they have had Buat Steeplechases. On Result he won the a wealth of magnificent material from which to Scots Guards' Regimental Steeplechase throe make their book, and they have used it both Walter Steeplechase in 1897, and thie wae, Ho times running, besides the Household Brigade with accuracy and skill.
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Some idea may be given of the vivid interest of this work by suggesting a few of the names and topics that will spring to the eye of muy. sporting reader who turns over the pages so
it
admirably illustrated. Not to many men is given to bequeath their own maine to a landmark that is almost as well known as Tattenham corner to the world at large; but "Boothor's Brook "is an appropriate memorial of oue of
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Another first-rate military rider was Major J. A. Orr-Ewing, who fell in action during the Boer War. 19th
the hardest and best ridere, who of idle Steeplechase by a head, after a despornie race,
in the
conpiry. He practically lived in
aring the decade that began in 1829, but it was in 1834 that he first rode Vivian, with which his name in chiefly couneetod. In 1830 occurred what was perhaps the best-known incident his career, the St. Albans Steeplechase, in which Mr. Pacall, who could box as well as he could ride, tonk
only to be thrown, while the more galloped off and left him with a dislocated shoulder. It was Captain Beecher, an Grimaldi, who took the leat after that, and won a close race by three lengths in the inet 200 yards. No sooner had he been pulled up than the old horse reared, fought with his fors-legs, and fell down dead, to the intense grief of the captain, who had ridden him in nearly all his races. One of Beccber's most celebrated matches was against the Marquis of Waterford on Vivian, and the sketch given of "the wild Margnis" in these chapters is no of the best in the book. His most celebrated escapade was the abstraction of the Eton flogging block, which still occupies a prominent position in the study at Curraghmara One of the truert-hearted gentlemen who ever drew breath, the Marquis died in the hunting-feld that fasal March afternoon in 1859 when "Mayboy stumbled o'er the rotten wall."
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these,ta Lapeers have always done woll in upheld then by the owner of Cloister, who made his debut in their Subalterns' Cup at the Fairy- honse Meeting Even when the Weasel" lost both stirrup-irons on Fatherland, be was only beaten for the Grand Military Hunters' by Roddy Owen. Ford of Fyne and Nelly Grey were two more of his best horses Major- General Sir Hugh McCalmont was another Lancer who did almost as well across a country as in the field. In 1871, Javing exchanged
inic the 7th Hussars, he won the Conyngham Cup Laarostira shoad of the field after the first mile, son, His best and fastest mare
who was bought out of threshing machine for £45, Captain George Paynter is a good example of the survival of the best traditions into the present day, for be
Guards Point-to
Paint in you the Brigade of 1906, and was second the next two years.
Mr.J.M. Richardson himself most thoroughly deserves inclusion in the list of great tiders whom he has so capitally described. In athletics. fusing, end racquets ho was among the best st Harrow, and he played at Lord's both for his school and his university, where he won his first steeplechase (on classic ground) at Huntingdon as an undergraduate. In 1872 he won lifty-six races, and the next year he steered Disturbance to victory in the Grand National, The motte on the menn at the dinner, in which Sir Jeliz Astley took the chair, was Disturbance, bai no Row." In 1874 he won the great race again on Reagay, and with that splendid victory he olceed his career tipon the racecourse. taking over the management of the Brocklesby Honds after the death of Lord Yarborongh in the next year. As he rightly says in the
in almost any other sport, has proved the most introduction to this book, the element of danger, which is present to a greater extent than abiding element of attraction ever since croes country riding care into fashion, more than seventy years ago.. There have been ups and
the
game, as in every, other daring. downs in that period, but the hard work and self-denial and the skill and courage training necessary in
which will attract the best men while Englishmen essential to successful racing, are things retain the best of our racial characteristics, and while those qualities still roase the ud miration of the world. Mr. Richardson and Mr. Mason have done well to put on record. the chief facts in this development, for they form no small part of the story of our nationa
HEROES OF A BYGONE AGE.
A very different character, but thoroughly typical of his time was George Osbaldistor, who fought the famous duel with Lord George which we should consider outrageous nowadays, Bentinck. Beth of them madoubtedly did tings and many of the Squire's most celebrated feats have since been beaten. But it is impos. sible not to admire the undaunted spirit of the men which drove him to excel in so many different kinds of sport, and to lose no single chance of riotary in the game on which for the moment be had set his heart. They em to have been made of a metal that is almost entirely lost to-day, those men of the early nineteenth coutury who lived as hard as they could, and lot nothing stand in the way of their desires. As was sung of one of them:
The damsels' delight and the chaperones fear,
He la voted u tramp amongst men; His father allows him £300 a year,
And he'll lay yon a thousand to ton." They certainly knew, too, how to support a strenuous existence with appropriate nourish- ment. The waiter at the Blue Posts, in Cork- strost, once described the Earl of Winelilsen's dinner to that nobleman's KOR, and recorded the *Alozen result in the following terms: systers, are soup, a rump steak, a snipe, aud a marrer bone to follara bottle of Perry Jewey and a pint of stont. "Good Gawl, Every says my lord, 'Why, my father live forever!"
One of the best examples of the all-round sportsman of those tixxes has but just died, and left a memory that is as much revered on the river as it is between the flags," and a well
!娴 remembered on the running track (for to beat Sir John Aetley in a sprint) as anywhers. Mr, E. L, Burton reds Cherry Angell's Bridegroom in the Grand National Hunt bleeplechase, run for the first time over the Market Harborough course in 1860, and won in a canter from a field of thirty-one. He won, the next year, tes, another of Cherry Angell's horses, perhaps his best, Queenferry, and in that some season the similar race at Cheltenham was won by George Eda ("Mr. Edwards"), one of the finest horse men of his own or any other time.
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The handful of wheat ears carried in the hand of the bride is a symbol of the prosperity and. thrift she brings to her home, and it is stili typified among the Germans, who always take a loaf of bread with them to a new home a insuring the prosperity with which the homo is
to be blessed,
Happy is the wooing That is not long in doing- Welding customs hayo varied with changing prids and people as the centuries have moved. The wedding ring, made of iron, copper, brass, leather, sedgo and adamant, seyms bave The throwing of old shoes after the carriage figured in the ceremony as far back as Bible of the bride is really a casting off of frivolity tunes, the first record of it being found in and the sign on the now maternal dignity. Genesis IV., whore Tubal Cain, the instructor Throwing away the pins of the wedding veil is of every kind of artificer," is mentioned to insure the happiness of welded life and typifies the putting away forever of the last symbol of maidenhood,
The real wedding cake is not a fruit cake, bat is several cakes put together with almond paste and sugar.undank
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The gimmal ring of old was cunningly devised in two fitted sections, at the wedding service it was divided, one-half for the bride and the other half for the bridegroom. The ring finger has also re- mained the same, having been chesen as The month of May has always korne a tra the least active finger and therefore the safest, dition of being unlucky for weddings, as also to wear the ring upon; and also for the sonti-Sunday, from an ancient ecclesiastical law, which mental reason that it is supposed to contain a also forbids marriages in Leat, and between blood vein that connects directly with the heart, Rogation and Trinity Sundays
As your wedding ring
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Sir John Astley's is another famors name and few better examples can be quoted than... "The Mate" of the sporting spirit that animates thegentleman rider at his best. His race
some dispute. The Crusaders are said to have The origin of the wedding veil is a matter of on Drumhead against Mr. Alorander on Briglia will never be forgotten by anyone who attended brought it to Western Europe, and others say the July Meeting of 1879. Fortunately the that it comes from the Greeks and Romans, breed is not dead yet, as may easily be seen who were entirely enshrouded during the bridal from the many excellent examples of living ceremony by a faming yellow reil. However Filers chosen by the authors. Among them that may be Margaret Tudor, on her marriage Colonel Hall Walker, whose ownership of to James of Salland, is said to have worn the Black Arrow, Polar Star, and the rest, has first wedding veil in Western Europe. Elizabeth rather obscured his personal excellence in the Stuart wore flowing hair with a shaplet of colour saddle in carlier days. From 1877 to 1890, for ed flowers on her head. In the reign of George instance, he won 127 ruce out of 311, and in III. both veils and wreaths were quits ont of July, 1888, ke von as fewer than six events in fashion for a time, flowing hair confined with a single day at the Southport Polo Club Meet gold and pearl bandeaux or fillets being the ing. Mr. Arthur Coventry, agai
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at the present time, first sported.silk in 1874, rode in three Grand Nationals, and won the National Hunt Steeplechase on Bellringer in a field of sixteen. It is almost impossible, still, to believe that Roddy Owen will ride no more, so brilliant, though so baief, was the riding career which began in a very modest way with victory on Holland at Daintrey, when he was only 19. It was whica ha returned from India that his real chance mame, and from 1835, when he started winning at Wolverton, until 1899, when he steered Father O'Flynn to victory in the Grand Nafoun), his success was certainly extraordinary, for he won no dower than 254 races cut of B12. As soon ea he had shieved the ambition of his life be applied for active service, but he was certainly disappointed at being in Cairo when the telegram was brought to Shepheard's Hotelin 1896, to say that, Father O'Flynn had been besten by The Soarer. He died of cholom at Anbigol Wells that same
your.
The Duchess of Gloucester and the Earl of Waldegrave were married on May 16, 1759, and it is recorded that she wore a white and silver brocaded gown and a large hat, which she were at the wedding dinner, and then was neither form nor indecency present as there was met with generally on such opensions, and they also went on a wedding trip unaccompanied in their own carriage.
The veil and housewife's cap are of the same origin, and the bride is supposed to don the offer. All lay aside the one to
li wedding wreaths were made of myrtle and olive leaves and coloured flowers until the orange blossoms, first worn by Barcus 15 emblems of fecundity, were introduced. The trusseau jawel gift from the bridegroom to the brifle has taken the place
of the "dow purse," which in days of old was the first instalment of the wife's pin money,
Matrons of honour are of Anglo-Saxon custom, while bridesmaids and men as attendants are equally time honoured, and flower girls and pages are as old as royalty itself.
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