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a week regularly for four seasons at the cost of two falls, and was 

 about the cleverest and easiest jumper he ever sat on. Having 

 broken down badly at exercise during the long frost of '95, he 

 gave him to Mr. Avila, of Theydon, who patched him up 

 sufficiently to come in second for the Farmers' Plate at Harlow 

 Races of the same year, earring 1 3 stone, at which time he 

 must have been 20 years old. Mr. Baddeley generally rides 

 little horses, but they can all gallop and jump. The Saturday 

 meets being generally too distant for Mr. Baddeley, he keeps 

 himself in condition by a gallop through the Forest with Paper 

 and Drag. Mr. Baddeley can use a pencil as well as handle 

 the reins, and I have to thank him for the sketch of a meet at 

 Copped Hall Lodge Gates, page 126, vol. I. 



p. M. Evans on "Katie" 



A capital sport-.man in every sense of the word. Hunting, 

 shooting, polo, cricket, hockey, or tennis, nothing comes amiss 

 to him ; he is a good man at any of them. The mare he rides, 

 a great favourite, for which he gave a century, is as quick 



