Gentlemen Riders 



His getting so near the winner was the more creditable, 

 as on the morning of the Liverpool, ** Mr. Edwards," when 

 riding Tease in a gallop, got a bad fall, and this being 

 followed by another at Lewes, kept him out of the saddle 

 for some time after. Up to 1862 "Mr. Edwards" had ridden 

 a good deal on the flat, but cricket had superior attractions 

 for him and he did not ride so much in the summer as formerly. 

 However, he beat Fordham by a head at Manchester, and the 

 following day scored 122 runs at Southampton in a match 

 between East and South Hants. 



In 1863 he had fifteen winning mounts, Mr. George 

 Thompson beating him by three; and in 1864 did better 

 still, riding twenty-eight winners, amongst them being Marble 

 Hill, Twilight, Cadeau, Goshawk, Grosvenor, and Overs tone. 

 In 1865 thirty races fell to his share. Beginning with the 

 Warwick Grand Annual on Lord Coventry's Emblem, he 

 wound up with a victory on Ironsides for Ben Land at 

 Worcester, and on Cortolvin at Croydon for Lord Powlett. 

 For some years Lord Uxbridge had first call on his services, 

 and when he had won eight times for him on Marble Hill, 

 his noble owner presented the jockey with a large portrait 

 of himself on the horse by Harry Hall. 



On Lord Uxbridge retiring from the turf, Mr. Ede became 

 closely identified with Lord Powlett's horses, then trained 

 at Droxford in Hampshire; and in 1868 came the climax of 

 his steeplechasing career when he won the Grand National 

 on The Lamb, after a great race with Pearl Diver. 



Only a short time previously Mr. Ede had received a 

 terrible fall in the Croydon Hurdle Race, being carried to 

 the Stand so smothered in blood as to be hardly recognizable, 

 and his reappearance in the saddle, therefore, so soon after- 

 wards, spoke volumes for his nerve and pluck. 



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