GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



in it! ' No doubt Emblematic should have won the 

 Doncaster Steeplechase, then one of the big events, but 

 in my life I never saw a man in such a funk as Stevens. 

 His teeth were chattering, though why I could never 

 make out, for she had fenced perfectly all through the 

 Liverpool. Of course, he wrestled her down, and to 

 this day I can remember my disgust after the race (I had 

 by no means won) when he came and bothered me to 

 examine his head and tell him if he was much hurt! 

 He had a tiny cut from a bit of gravel." 



In the Sixties and Seventies 



In the sixties the Duke of Hamilton was a prominent 

 supporter of racing and 'chasing, and the victory of his 

 Cortolvin is to be noted for the fact that the 1 1 st. 13 lb. 

 which the horse carried was the heaviest weight borne to 

 victory until 1893, that is to say during the first fifty 

 years of the race. As already recorded, Abd-el-Kader 

 had won twice. The Colonel, out of a half-bred mare, 

 carried off the race in 1869 and 1870, and The Lamb, 

 belonging to Lord Poulett, having won in 1868, 

 repeated his victory in 1871. The Lamb was a grey, 

 and the course over which he scored was as nearly as 

 possible of the same length as that which has been 

 subsequently in vogue, thirty yards short of four and a 

 half miles. Mr. J. M. Richardson, one of the finest 

 amateurs who ever rode over a fence — though in mention- 

 ing gentlemen jockeys I have been culpable in omitting 



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