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Side of the country. Captain Fox was 

 always well mounted on a good class 

 of horse, but never jumped the nasty 

 obstacles. He was the most courteous of 

 men, and would raise his hat to a tramp 

 if the tramp raised his. 



Speaking of amateur huntsmen (who 

 are not always an unmixed blessing), we 

 must not omit Mr. J.Maunsell Richardson 

 of Brocklesby fame, dual winner of 

 the Grand National on Disturbance and 

 Reugny, one of the best cross-country 

 gentlemen riders at that time, quite one 

 of the nattiest and best all-round horse- 

 men in England to-day. After winning 

 his last National on Reugny, whom he 

 trained himself in Brocklesby Park, there 

 was a split in the stable camp over 

 which Captain Machell was the presiding 

 genius, and Mr. Richardson relinquished 

 silk for e*er and aye. Later on he 



