GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



whom 'cross country racing had always appealed, had 

 two runners, Magic, ridden by John Jones, and Hetty, 

 by a jockey named Hall who was associated with the 

 stable. Neither was at all fancied, Magic starting at 

 25 to I, the mare at 66 to i. 



In the Nineties 



In 1890 the field was unusually small, only sixteen 

 going to the post, what may be called the standing 

 dishes among them, Frigate, Gamecock, Why Not and 

 Voluptuary ; but Ilex, belonging to an Epsom book- 

 maker, carried home his light weight. My friend 

 " Roddy " Owen always maintained that he ought to 

 have won in 1891 on Cloister, then the property of Lord 

 Dudley. According to his statement Mr. H. Beasley 

 on Come Away interfered with him at the last fence, 

 and there was an objection, which, however, the 

 Stewards overruled. Here Ilex was third, Roquefort 

 fourth, Why Not, Gamecock and Voluptuary unplaced. 

 As it was. Cloister was only beaten half a length, and 

 what has been said of Frigate applies to him, for the 

 following season he was second again, his jockey of the 

 previous year, Roddy Owen, riding the winner, Father 

 O'Flynn. Cloister, who had passed into the possession 

 of Mr. Charles Duff, was set to give Father O'Flynn 

 within a couple of pounds of two stone, and good horse 

 as Cloister was this proved to be beyond his powers. 

 Roddy Owen had been passionately devoted to the sport 



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