The Life of a Great Sportsman 



the brook, when Juryman and his rider collided with Major 

 Tempest's mount, and were knocked bodily into the water, 

 the " Cat," whose ankle was damaged, being picked out by 

 an English groom looking on, just in time to avoid being 

 jumped upon by the remainder of the field, consisting of a lot 

 of foreign officers of different nationalities, every one of whom 

 fell into the brook. 



The only rider, in fact, who managed to get over in safety 

 was George Ede on Benazet, belonging to the late Lord Powlett, 

 who went on and won pretty much as he liked. 



Benazet, I may mention — again ridden by Mr. " Edwards" 

 — was made an odds-on favourite for the same race the follow- 

 ing year, which he would inevitably have won but for coming 

 down at the brook and breaking his back, to the great grief of 

 his rider, who, as one of the papers afterwards remarked, was 

 as fond of poor Benazet as, the song tells us, was the proverbial 

 Arab of his steed. 



Other events won by Mr. Richardson that same year for 

 Captain Machell were the Brocklesby Open, the Warwick 

 Hunt, and the Nottinghamshire Steeplechases, all three on 

 Defence, trained by himself. 



At Rothbury, Northumberland, again, riding on a very 

 light saddle and over severe country, he won the Open Handi- 

 cap Steeplechase on Lady Day, notwithstanding the fact that 

 he broke a stirrup leather at the very first fence. 



Besides the Grand Annual at Warwick on Schiedam for 

 Mr. Chaplin, other races he won that year were the Coplow 

 Stakes and Granby Handicap at Croxton Park, on Felix and 

 Bickerstaffe, the property respectively of Lords Calthorpe and 

 Lonsdale, whilst on Tuberville he won the Warwick Welter 

 for the late Lord Aylesford. At Ayr he won the Corinthian 

 Handicap for Mr. James Barber on Disturbance, and later on 



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