Gentlemen Riders 



Market Harborough the previous year. Vicomte Talon was 

 next on his own horse Laudanum ; and Mr. Thomas third on 

 Mr. G. Vaughan's Ebony ; the other being again won by 

 Mr. E. C. Burton on Queensferry, belonging, as before, to his 

 friend " Cherry " Angell, and far and away the best animal that 

 gentleman ever owned. 



There were seventeen runners, Mr. Burton's mount starting 

 a warm favourite at 3 to i. 



Such a brilliant victory has rarely been witnessed, as, after 

 the first mile had been covered, it was plain that it was any 

 odds on Queensferry, so long as she kept on her legs ; and she 

 won in the end by upwards of twenty lengths, Limner, the 

 mount of Captain Barclay, being second, and Socks, ridden 

 by Mr. Walker, third. 



To the last Mr. E. C. Burton continued to take an active 

 part in the affairs of the Grand National Hunt Committee, 

 of which he was the oldest member at the time of his 

 death. 



Mr. GEORGE EDE 



("Mr. Edwards") 



Mr. George Ede, better known as *' Mr. Edwards," and one 

 of the best gentlemen riders, both over a country or on the 

 flat, of his or any other time, was one of the twin sons of 

 Mr. Edward Ede of Clayfield Lodge, Southampton. Born 

 in 1834, he and his twin brother Mr. Edward Ede, who in 

 after life did so much for Hampshire cricket, were educated 

 at Eton, which they left in 1850. 



About this period, Ben Land, as a steeplechase rider, was 



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