Gentlemen Riders 



race-riding-, he gave his undivided attention. Besides managing 

 Lord St. Vincent's horses, he won several good races with 

 animals of his own at various times, his most important victory 

 being that of Mrs. Taft, who, described as a half-bred, and 

 carrying 6 st. 6 lb., won the Cesarewitch of 1851, from twenty- 

 five others. 



We have seen it stated more than once, that Mr. Bevill 

 was frequently called in by the late Admiral Rous to assist 

 him in adjusting the weights for the big Autumn Handicaps. 

 This we are in a position to flatly contradict. 



That he may have shown his old friend his own estimate of 

 the horses entered in the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire is 

 quite possible, but that the Admiral, the personification of all 

 that is fair and honourable, should divulge state secrets, so to 

 speak, even to an intimate, is in the highest degree improbable. 



Mr. Bevill, whose father was in turn Recorder of Lynn, 

 Registrar of the Bedford Level, and a magistrate at Worship 

 Street, lived at one time at Holly Lodge, Highgate, so famous 

 in after years as the residence of the late Baroness Burdett- 

 Coutts, was born at March, in Cambridgeshire, on May 4th, 

 1807, and died at Brighton in September, 1884. 



Mr. WILLIAM BEVILL 



Few people unaware of the fact, taking stock for the first 

 time of the popular clerk of the course at Kempton Park, 

 would imagine that his long and successful career as a gentle- 

 man rider, both over a country and on the flat — especially 

 the latter — was commenced as long ago as 1855. Such, 



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