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winning the challenge racquet from Cecil Clay, who made 

 such a name for himself at Oxford. Mr. Richardson 

 also won the school prize for fielding, the long jump 

 and hurdle race, and also the fencing prize given by the 

 Messrs. Angelo, so it will be seen that this gentleman 

 was an all-round athlete. 



It was about 1865 that Mr. Richardson first appeared 

 as a gentleman rider, and one of his earliest victories 

 was when he easily won a steeplechase at Huntingdon, 

 although he broke a stirrup leather at the first fence. 



Among sundry minor events Mr. Richardson won, 

 in 1869, at the Aylesbury "Aristocratic" steeplechases, 

 on Sir William Milner's Cora Pearl, in a match against 

 Lord Rosebery's The Fawn, ridden by Mr. C. S. Newton 

 of Oxford.^ 



Mr. Richardson won two Grand Nationals (1873 and 

 1874) on Disturbance and Reugny respectively; two 

 Croydon United Kingdom Steeplechases on Disturbance 

 and Furley ; two Leamington Grand Annuals with 

 Furley and Schiedam, winning on the last-mentioned 

 horse the Grand National Hunt Steeplechase at Gotten - 

 ham in 1870. 



At Croydon, in 1873, ^^- Richardson rode Furley 

 for Mr. Baltazzi (the owner of Kisber, the Derby winner 

 of 1876), when the horse jumped in such slovenly style 

 that he appeared to possess no earthly chance of winning, 

 but his rider managed to pull him together, and at last 

 he contrived to wear down Silvermere (the mare after- 

 wards became a "let hunter," having passed into the 

 possession of Mr. John Bambridge, of the Sun and 

 Whalebone, Harlow Common, Essex), and eventually 

 won by a neck. In 1874 Mr. Richardson gave up 

 riding in steeplechases. He married, in 1881, Victoria, 

 Countess of Yarborough, and takes great interest in 

 the hounds. 



^ See Aylesbury Steeplechases. 



