-298 THE WAEWICKSHIKE HUNT. [1895 



Mr. Phillipson's Beatrice was leading" at the last fence, 

 where she swerved and fell. Captain Lamb's celebrated 

 horse Vivian, ridden by Captain Beecher, and the Marqnis 

 of Waterford's Yellow Dwarf, ridden by the owner, each 

 refused this last fence twice, which enabled Mr. Coke's b. h. 

 Flacrow, ridden by Mr. Haycock, to come up and win, 

 Vivian being second, and Yellow Dwarf third. The race 

 was apparently a handicap, as Vivian carried 121b. more 

 than the winner. Some of the riders met Avith accidents, 

 but no one was much hurt. Amongst the horses not placed 

 were Lord Lowth's Carlow, rode by Lord Clanricarde ; Lord 

 Wilton's Prince, rode by Sir D. Baird ; Lord Macdonald's 

 Fugleman, rode by the owner ; Lord Redesdale's Stocking 

 Weaver, rode by Mr. D'Oyley ; Sir E. Mostyn's Emanuel, 

 rode by Mr Horley ; Captain Lamb's Manfred, rode by 

 Mr. Crommelin* ; and Mr. R. (.Treaves' Midnight, rode by 

 Mr. Patrick. 



Vivian's two greatest performances were in LS84, when 

 he won the Great Northampton Steeplechase, on the 4th of 

 April, beating the b. g. Vanguard, by Vampire, and 

 Mr. Osbaldestone's b. g. Cannon Ball ; and on December 1st 

 when, with Captain Beecher up, he ran a match, for 

 1000 sovereigns each, with Lord Waterford's Cock Robin, 

 12 stone each, over a very stiff Leicestershire course of four 

 miles, which he won after a most severely contested race. 

 Vivian also w^on the Light Weight Steeplechase at Ayles- 

 bury on the 11th of February, 1836 ; and the Steeplechase 

 at Worcester the same year, where he beat Midnight, who 

 fell, and Vivian went the distance alone over as severe a 

 line of country, perhaps, as ever was ridden. In 1837 he 

 won the Dunchurch Grand Steeplechase, over a heavy line 

 of country, on the 7th of March, beating Jerry, Cock Eobin, 

 Beatrice, and other good horses ; while on the 4th of A^pril, 

 of the same year, he won the Great Steeplechase at Chel- 

 tenham, beating Deceiver, Cannon Ball, and many others. 



* In Sir Walter Carew's diary he notes : Mondiy, 26tli March, 1854, Harewood's 

 House. Very gocd day's sport. This day poor Cnl. Crommelia had a fall, and died 

 three davs afterwards. 



