Racing Career 



jockeys been reversed the result would have been very dif- 

 ferent. Maunsell Richardson, however, who was surely better 

 entitled to know than any one, declined to allow this at any 

 price, giving it as his opinion that no one could have ridden 

 better than Boxall, whose rough and ready style of riding 

 exactly suited a wayward brute like Rhysworth, who had tried 

 all he knew to " cut it " on two other occasions during the race, 

 notably when coming to the water in the first round, when, but 

 for the determined handling of his jockey, he would inevitably 

 have refused. 



To show what a good performance it was on the part of 

 Disturbance, it may be mentioned that Rhysworth, either the 

 very next day or the day after, ran clean away from a large 

 field in the Sefton Steeplechase, with the substantial burden 

 of 12 st. 7 lb. on his back. Had the horse won the Grand 

 National it would indeed have been hard lines for Maunsell 

 Richardson, at whose place he had been located for some time 

 until removed in consequence of a rupture between his owner 

 and Captain Machell, and who had taught him all the jumping 

 he ever knew. 



To celebrate the event many Lincolnshire friends shortly 

 afterwards gave a banquet to Mr. Richardson at Brigg. When 

 it is added that the motto on the top of the menu card was 

 " Disturbance but no Row," and that the " Mate " (the late 

 Sir John Astley), in his most genial mood, presided at the 

 feast, it may well be imagined that the gathering was of a most 

 festive character, it being not too much to say that the cheering 

 which went up when the guest of the evening got on his legs 

 to return thanks for the toast of his health might easily have 

 been heard in the next parish. 



Curiously enough, Mr. James Barber, from whom Dis- 

 turbance was originally purchased, though begged by Mr. 



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