



THE STEEPLECHASE — NOBODY THE WINNER 

 By J. F. Herring 



ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHIES 



JOHN HOLMAN 



MR. JOHN HOLMAN, who died in January 

 1888, within a few days of attaining his seventy- 

 eighth year, was one of the few remaining members of 

 the old school of steeplechase riders. Though born in 

 the Quorn Country, where he had his first experience 

 of horses and riding, he subsequently settled down in 

 Cheltenham, where in later years he had a livery and 

 dealing business, and trained steeplechase horses. In 

 1839 he was full of riding engagements, and in 1841 he 

 won, over the course at Andoversford, near Cheltenham, 

 a couple of steeplechases on Orion and Conservative 

 respectively, while only a few weeks later he rode a dead 



heat on Zero against that famous horseman, Tom Olliver, 



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