Mr. E. C. Burton 



of that ilk, son of the present owner of Shardeloes, who, besides 

 having few superiors in the hunting field, is equally at home 

 between the flags. 



Appropriately enough, his first winning mount was at 

 Aylesbury, where, in 1905, he steered Pat Navan to victory 

 in the Heavy-weight Hunters Steeplechase. In the same 

 year he won the Grafton Plate at Towcester on Doncaster 

 Rock (four years). Two wins out of five rides. 



Last year at the point-to-point races in connection with 

 the Old Berkshire, of which his father, Mr. W. Tyrwhitt 

 Drake, was master, a friend betted the latter gentleman half 

 a sovereign that he wouldn't ride. Mr. Drake at once booked 

 the bet, and not only rode in the race but actually finished 

 second to his own son. 



Out of fifty-seven starters only five got round without 

 falling, two of their number being Messrs. Drake, pere et 

 Jils. Not a bad performance on the part of the former to 

 start riding point-to-point at the age of fifty-seven ; the 

 fact that, owing to a flood the night before, all the ditches 

 were level with the banks, and the Brook increased to 

 twenty feet wide in consequence, making the feat all the 

 more creditable. 



Mr. E. C. burton 



" The best all-round sportsman I ever met." What better 

 description, we would ask, could there well be of the fine old 

 English gentleman whose name adorns the heading of this 

 chapter, than that compressed in the few words given above, 



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