Mr. Charles Bevill 



occasion he rode Latitat, a horse belonging to himself, who, 

 however, fell. 



The following year, 1 848, he had a " leg-up " on that good 

 horse "The British Yeoman," 11 st. 4 lb, (10 lb. extra), in the 

 Liverpool, won by Chandler, and this time with better results, 

 for after making most of the running — he was a length in front, 

 in fact, when they landed on the race-course for the last time — 

 he finished a good third to Chandler and the Curate, ridden 

 respectively by Captain Little and Tom Olliver, being only a 

 length and a half from the last named, who in his turn was 

 half a length behind the winner. 



In 1849, when Peter Simple won, Mr. Bevill again essayed 

 to win the Liverpool with British Yeoman, carrying 1 1 st. 4 lb. 

 as on the previous occasion, but this time he did not do so 

 well, as we read that, in company with Chandler and Alfred, 

 Mr. Elmore's horse walked in with the crowd. 



If not successful at Aintree, however, British Yeoman, 

 ridden on each occasion by Mr. Bevill, won the big steeple- 

 chase at Bath and Newmarket respectively, and, but for a 

 broken collar-bone caused by a fall when riding young Lottery, 

 this fine horseman would certainly have been in the saddle 

 when the grey won the great Metropolitan steeplechase in 

 1849. As it was, his place was taken by William Archer 

 (father of the " Tinman "), and a very easy ride he had ; the 

 Yeoman being so much at home in the abnormally heavy 

 going, that nothing could live with him, the pair coming in by 

 themselves at the finish. 



Mr. Bevill also won the Grand Annual Steeplechase at 

 Warwick on two separate occasions, on Latitat and Sir Peter 

 Laurie. 



Exceedingly popular wherever he went, Mr. Bevill was 

 nowhere more so than on the turf, to which, on abandoning 



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