Gentlemen Riders 



Approaching the last fence, rather a formidable affair, 

 George Ede's mount was far the fresher of the two, and 

 had his jockey kept a straight line, must have won. As it 

 was, the latter went out of his way to jump a weak place 

 he had spotted, with the result, that Mr. Bevill, who regard- 

 less of consequences, had gone the nearest way home, just 

 managed to keep his advantage to the end, and won by a 

 head, amidst great rejoicing on the part of the natives, all 

 of whom were on the winner to a man. 



In i860 Mr. Bevill again put in an appearance at Aintree, 

 when he rode Link Boy, by True Boy, a horse belonging 

 to his father, on which he finished fifth to Anatis, the mount 

 of Mr. Thomas. 



It has always been a moot point whether with better luck 

 The Huntsman would not have beaten Mr. Capel's mare, and 

 Mr. Bevill, who was riding by his side at the time, is decidedly 

 of opinion that but for Captain Townley getting both feet 

 out of the irons when jumping Becher's Brook the second 

 time round, and thereby losing a lot of ground, the positions 

 at the finish would certainly have been reversed. 



In the Grand National of 1861, Mr. Bevill's bad luck 

 still clung to him. It was originally intended that he should 

 have the mount on that good horse Arbury, who, it will be 

 remembered, with Mr. Alec Goodman in the saddle, ran 

 second on that occasion ; but at the last moment he was 

 persuaded to ride the Orphan, a headstrong, unruly brute 

 belonging to Tilbury the horse-dealer, who gave him about 

 as uncomfortable a ride as can well be imagined. Not content 

 with bucking and rearing at the post, to which he had to 

 be led with a bearing rein, he wound up by galloping into, 

 instead of over, the thorn fence preceding the water (the 

 same obstacle at which George Ede met his death in 1870), 



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