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hands of John Page, whose father used to find the horses for the North Warwick- 

 shire Hunt in the Birmingham district, she won easily enough, beating Scarrington 

 by half a dozen lengths. Mr. Brockton's Primrose broke her back during the 

 race, and had to be killed. There were some very good horses among the starters ; 

 for instance, The Lamb, Scot Grey, Schiedam (who won the Grand National Hunt 

 Steeplechase in 1870), Rhys-worth, and others. The two following years, 1873 

 and 1874, are noteworthy for the successes of the late Captain Machell as owner 

 and Mr. J. M. Richardson as jockey, with Disturbance and Reugny respectively. In 



His Majesty the King's " Ambush //." 



the former year the second horse was Mr. Chaplin's Rhysworth, ridden by Boxall, 

 afterwards whipper-in and huntsman to the North Staffordshire Hounds. It was 

 but a few years previously that the owners of the first and second horses were con- 

 federates, but on this occasion they were opposed to each other. Mr. J. Maunsell 

 Richardson, who is married to Victoria, Countess of Yarborough, very frequently 

 officiates as judge at important horse shows ; but some forty years ago, as a Harrow 

 boy, he played against Eton at Lords in 1864 and 1865. At Cambridge he soon 

 found a place in the Eleven, and it was while at the University that he was first 

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