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a mount in the Grand National, and on Weathercock, 

 then the property of Viscount Talon, rode a good second 

 to Little Charlie, ridden by William Archer. Mr. Ede 

 had a bad fall at Liverpool on the morning of the Grand 

 National while riding a gallop on Tease, on whom he 

 rode at Lincoln and other places. This being followed 

 up by another accident at Lewes, he was kept out of the 

 saddle for some time. 



Up to 1862 Mr. Ede had ridden a good deal on the 

 flat, but he then took to cricket, and did not ride much 

 in the summer, so his number of winning rides diminished. 

 Nevertheless he beat Fordham by a head at Hampton, 

 and on the next day scored 122 runs at Southampton in 

 a match between East and South Hants. In 1863 he 

 had fifteen winning mounts, being second to Mr. George 

 Thompson with eighteen ; but in 1864 he rode no fewer 

 than twenty-eight winners, including such horses as 

 Marble Hill, Twilight, Cadeau, Goshawk, Gownsman, 

 and Overstone. In 1865 Mr. Ede won thirty races. 

 He began by riding Lord Coventry's Emblem in the 

 Warwick Grand Annual, and finished up by riding Ben 

 Land's Ironsides at Worcester, and Cortolvin for the 

 late Lord Poulett, at Croydon. 



Mr. Ede had for some time been connected with 

 Lord Uxbridge, to whom he gave the first call of his 

 services, and when he had won eight times for him on 

 Marble Hill, Lord Uxbridge presented him with a large 

 portrait of the horse by Harry Hall ; when his lordship 

 gave up racing to a great extent Mr. Ede became more 

 closely identified with Lord Poulett 's horses. Many as 

 had been Mr. Ede's victories, the climax of his career 

 may be said to have been reached in the year 1868 

 when on Lord Poulett's famous steeplechaser. The Lamb, 

 he won the Grand National. In the same year he rode 

 a splendid finish at Warwick — a course on which he was 

 uniformly successful — when on Musketeer he won the 



