Gentlemen Riders 



His first success seems to have been in 1834 when he won 

 the Rose steeplechase, a heavy fall notwithstanding, at 

 Cheltenham on his own horse, Sailor Boy. 



Amongst others Mr. Vevers owned the famous Charity, 

 by Woodman, probably the best horse the great Lottery ever 

 encountered. 



Charity was originally bought from Mr. Williams of 

 Cowarn Court, who ran him in one or two steeplechases 

 without success. In the hands of his new owner, however, the 

 result was very different, for, beginning with the Usk Stakes 

 and Hurdle Race at Cardiff, and the Hurdle Race at Mon- 

 mouth in 1836, he won the Aberysthwyth Hurdle Race, the 

 Farmers' Plate, the Hunting Stakes and the Hurdle Race 

 at Hereford in 1838, all at the same meeting, and the Hunters' 

 Stakes and Hurdle Race at Hereford the following year. 

 He also won the Broadway, Alcester, and other steeplechases, 

 finally, in 1841, putting the seal on his fame by winning the 

 Liverpool by a length from Cigar, being on this occasion 

 nominated by Lord Craven and ridden by Mr. Powell. 



A steeplechase organized by the Monmouthshire and 

 Herefordshire Hunt was won by Mr. Vevers, as represen- 

 tative of the last-named county, on a diminutive horse of 

 his own named Little Tommy. 



This was the horse that Mr. Vevers, when sixty-four 

 years of age, rode in the Paris steeplechase of 1846, coming 

 in second to Culverthorpe, belonging to Mr. Tilbury. 



It was not until T849 that this hardy veteran rode his 

 last steeplechase, which he won at Ledbury, on his own horse, 

 Vengeance. 



Other horses he owned at various times were Velocity, 

 winner of the Ledbury and Kidderminster steeplechases, 

 Cruickshank, winner at Northbeach (Cheltenham), Very Bad, 



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