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as we know, was trained by Mr Gilpin. Mr Gilpin 

 purchased the pet colt Delaunay for something 

 like ;^200 from Mr E. Kennedy, and recently 

 Comrade, a Grand Prix de Paris winner, for jC^5- 



Following the military steeplechase came the 

 Kildare Hunt Cup, won by Sir Hugh, ridden by 

 Mr D. M. G. Campbell of the 9th Lancers, who 

 in the following year, 1896, rode the Soarer to 

 victory in the Grand National for the present Lord 

 Wavertree. It was Lord Wavertree who presented 

 the country with Tully Stud Farm and inmates, 

 incidentally initiating the first Government venture 

 of the kind. 



General Campbell distinguished himself as a 

 cavalry leader in the late war, thus proving the 

 value and importance of fox-hunting and steeple- 

 chasing in the training of an officer. It is not out 

 of place to mention the names of several very 

 successful cavalry officers in the late war — Generals 

 French, Haig, Allenby, Gough and Home. I 

 believe that the late Lord Wolseley preferred 

 infantry officers, and, when he could, gave pre- 

 ference to them in choosing his subordinates. This 

 may account for the paucity of distinguished cavalry 

 officers during the Wolseley era. 



Looking back five and twenty years at that 

 Punchestown Meeting, it is pleasing to note so 

 many still in the land of the living. Besides the 



