SEYMOUR CALDWELL Ql 



Mr. Caldwell is as good between the flags as he is across 

 country, and has scored a good many wins in Essex, carrying 

 off the Fox Hunters' Plate in three successive years — first 

 upon Lady Brooke's " Cheltenham," the next year on his own 

 horse "Elevator," and then H. Bagot's "Ace of Spades." In 

 the race of the following year, when riding Mrs. Crossman's 

 " Ruth " he was beaten by only a head. In '98 and '99 Mr. 

 Caldwell won the Lightweight Point to Point (there were 

 eighteen starters in '98) on Mrs. Crossman's " Ruth." Also 

 in '99 the Essex Hunt Club Cup on the same good animal, 

 and credited himself with the Stock Exchange Point to Point 

 on Mr. Bank's "Frisky Jane" in '98. In a previous year he 

 had won the Rochdale Harrier Point-to-Point on Mr. G. Kemp's 

 " Greta." 



"Paddy" 



Mr. Kemp is another of those whose name frequently 

 occurs in these pages. Until he met with an accident which 

 stopped him riding across country, he always held a very 

 prominent part in the good runs that fell to the share of fox 

 or stag hounds. A fine horseman, he was successful in many 

 races, and steered his own mare " Killarney " to victory in the 

 East Essex and Essex Point-to-Point races, held at Thaxted in 

 1888, when twenty-two started; and in 1889 he piloted " Harle- 



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