Viscount Tredegar 



saddle, when he rode a horse called Fringe in a flat race at 

 Woolwich, his next appearance being at Newport, in Mon- 

 mouthshire, in the course by the river-side, where the Newport 

 rowing-club boathouse now stands, on which occasion he rode 

 a grey mare named Miss Banks, belonging to Mr. Fothergill 

 Rowlands, in a hurdle race, coming in second to a horse called 

 The General. 



In the same year he won the principal steeplechase at 

 Cowbridge on Mr. Briggs, belonging to his elder brother, 

 which horse accompanied him later on to the Crimea, and was 

 his mount in the Balaclava charge. 



After the Peace, in 1855, Captain Godfrey Morgan retired 

 from the Army, and gave himself up almost entirely to sports 

 of the field, in which steeplechasing took a prominent place. 

 Cardiff, Cowbridge, and Abergavenny — which last is described 

 by Mr. Thomas Pickernell as one of the stiffest courses he 

 ever rode across — being his favourite battle-grounds. At Cow- 

 bridge he won the principal steeplechase, and was second in 

 the next race on a horse called Peeping Tom, whilst the Hunt 

 and open steeplechases at Abergavenny fell to his share with 

 Gadfly and General Bosquet respectively ; the first-named 

 race being won again a second time by him on a horse 

 named Bowles. Whilst still in the Service, Captain Godfrey 

 Morgan steered the second in the light-weight Military Steeple- 

 chase at Warwick ; and later on, at Melton, he won the first 

 point-to-point steeplechase which ever took place there, on 

 Mystery, his brother, Colonel The Hon. Fred Morgan, being 

 second. 



From 1858 to 1875, in which year he succeeded to the 

 title, Lord Tredegar represented Brecknock in Parliament in 

 the Conservative interest, and he still retains the Mastership 

 of the Hunt which bears his name. 



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