Gentlemen Riders 



which occasion he was ridden by Thorpe in Mr.Chaplin's colours, 

 that gentleman having purchased him in the interim for the 

 use of his Lincolnshire tenants to breed hunters from, with, 

 we believe, highly satisfactory results. Snowstorm was bred 

 at Limber in Lincolnshire, and Mr. Maunsel Richardson 

 often rode him when he was first broken in at three years 

 old, and later on rode and won a steeplechase on him 

 at Warwick, on which occasion he carried no less than 

 14 St. 2 lbs. 



In 1870, the subject of our memoir won the Sefton 

 Steeplechase at Liverpool on Keystone, which horse Mr. 

 J. M. Richardson subsequently bought on behalf of Captain 

 Machell and took with him shortly afterwards to Baden 

 Baden, where he rode him in the big steeplechase, for which 

 he was beaten by a neck only. 



He and his brother George at one time used between 

 them to account for most of the Brocklesby Hunt Steeplechases. 

 There were two races, and in these the two brothers were first 

 and second two years in succession, on one memorable 

 occasion Robert, on Snowstorm, beating George, on Barbarian, 

 by the shortest of heads. 



In 1884, when close on sixty years of age, Mr. Robert 

 Walker brought a most successful riding career to a close 

 by winning one of the steeplechases at Liverpool on a four- 

 year-old of his own named Heirloom. 



In his time the subject of this memoir has owned some 

 good horses on the flat, the most notable being Dresden 

 China, who won two or three two-year-old races, and later 

 on the great Yorkshire Handicap at Doncaster, after which 

 she was sold for two thousand guineas to Mr. Charles Perkins, 

 in whose colours, carrying a ten-pound penalty for winning 

 at Doncaster, she ran third for the Cesarewitch ; whilst the 



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