Major Tempest 



the fingers of one hand, and, out of the number, only one had 

 ridden the winner, viz. Captain Little, on the Chandler, in 

 1848, Captain Townley running him pretty close on the 

 Huntsman in i860, and his third on Yaller Gal in 1863. 



Major Arthur Cecil Tempest, the rider of Hall Court on 

 the memorable occasion just referred to, is the second son 

 of the late Henry Tempest, of Broughton Hall, Skipton-on- 

 Craven, by his wife Jemima, daughter of Sir Thomas de 

 Trafford, and was born in 1837. After completing his educa- 

 tion at Stonyhurst College, in 1857, he joined the nth Hussars, 

 known in those days as the nth Light Dragoons, and rode 

 his first race in public the previous year, when quartered in 

 Ireland with his regiment, his marked ability in the saddle 

 being doubtless attributable in no small measure to the in- 

 struction he had received at the hands of that celebrated 

 horseman, Mr. Alan McDonough, who, from the first, had 

 taken the sporting young cornet under his wing as one likely 

 to do credit to his schooling ; and it was on a horse belonging 

 to him, named Bryan O'Lynn, that his pupil won his first 

 important race — the Sefton Steeplechase at Liverpool, in 1861, 

 or thereabouts. 



Of the many horses ridden at various times by Major 

 Tempest during his steeplechasing career, the one his name 

 would be most identified with was Hall Court, on whom, in 

 addition to winning several steeplechases at Howth, Baldoyle, 

 Warwick, and Ludlow, he was twice second at Liverpool, in 

 1865 and 1869 respectively. His other Grand National mounts 

 were Merrimac in 1866, on whom he finished fifth, and Karslake, 

 a horse belonging to himself, in 1870. Of his many victories 

 in England and Ireland, however, the most important was 

 on Mr. Robertson's Pickles in the National Hunt Steeple- 

 chase of 1873. The race was run on this occasion over the 



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