I20 CHARLES JOHN CORNELL, THE TRAINER. 



the victory was most popular. Bridegroom ran sixth in 

 the Grand National at Liverpool that year; in 1861 he was 

 fourth ; and in 1862 second. Mr. Angell built a course as 

 much like that at Aintree as possible on a farm close to 

 Lubbenham, so that when his horses got to Liverpool they 

 might feel at home. Having formed an intimacy with 

 Charles Cornell, who trained Mr. Angell's horses, he often 

 gave me a leg up on Bridegroom a few years later, and 

 many a time have I ridden him over the course in question 

 with others of Mr. Angell's string, including Alcibiade, who 

 won the National at Liverpool, after the closest finish on 

 record, in 1865. Bridegroom was a grand fencer and a 

 hard puller, but he knew his business to perfection, and all 

 I had to do was to sit tight and leave the rest to him. Mr. 

 Angell won the Grand National Hunt for the second time 

 at Market Harborough in 1861 with Queensferry, also 

 ridden by Mr. Burton. In 1862 the meeting was trans- 

 ferred to Rugby, but it came back to Harborough again, and 

 for the last time in 1863, though the course had then 

 undergone considerable changes, and was not nearly so stiff 

 as on the first occasion. Lord Calthorpe's Socks, ridden 

 by Alec Goodman, won in 1863. Two years ago I rented 

 a place for a few weeks at Great Bowden, where poor 

 Hugie Owen was living when he was killed, and one day I 

 rode over to Farndon and Lubbenham and had a look 

 round at the old spot, which was so full of interest to me. 

 A small cross in the Churchyard marks the last resting 

 place of Charles John Cornell, who died July 22nd, 1874, at 

 the age of fifty-three. He was a cheery red-faced little 

 fellow who always wore a hat cocked on one side, but what 

 he didn't know about schooling chasers wasn't worth 

 knowing. Mr. Harry Mills was then living in Cherry 

 Angell's old house, and he took me over it as well as the 

 stables, and showed me where Alcibiade was buried — 

 after being perhaps prematurely destroyed — in the paddock 

 at the back of them. There still remains one historical 

 stable door with the eight gilded plates nailed on it which 

 Mr. Angell's celebrated chasers wore on the occasion of 



