Mr. J. M. Richardson's Writings Collated 



been so graphically described by Finch Mason in his well-known 

 book, " Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National," that it 

 is unnecessary to go over the ground again. 



Sound Advice. 



Prince Kinsky's victory was another instance of a hunting 

 man being thoroughly at home over a big country, and it is 

 interesting to hear that he followed to the letter the advice 

 given to him just before the race by a sage of great experience, 

 which was : " Ride just as if you were out hunting the first 

 time round. After that, and not before, you can begin to look 

 about you and see what the others are doing." 



Perhaps the most remarkable instance on record of an 

 inexperienced rider as regards steeplechase-riding proving 

 successful at Aintree was the victory of Lord Manners on 

 Seaman the previous year, when on a broken-down horse, with 

 the elements against him in the shape of a blinding snowstorm, 

 he found himself fighting out the finish with Tom Beasley, 

 perhaps the best horseman of his day over the Aintree or any 

 other course. 



Frank Gordon, again, who with his life-long friend, Alec 

 Goodman, for many years divided honours as the best horse- 

 men who came out with the Fitzwilliam and Belvoir packs, and 

 who, unlike the latter, did not lay himself out for steeplechase 

 riding, finished second on Miss Mowbray in the Grand National 

 of 1853, the only occasion on which he had a mount in the 

 race ; Alec Goodman, who had won on Miss Mowbray the 

 previous year, curiously enough being third this time on Oscar, 

 in the same stable. 



In 1848, when the "Little Captain," as the popular Josey 

 Little was sometimes termed, won on Chandler, a rider 



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