Mr. Alexander Goodman 



Buckworth, Hunts — the same which once in the hunting-field 

 held him down by standing on his coat-tails — the horse being 

 dead beat when he fell, lay over his leg, and was unable to rise. 

 His friends came to his rescue, and Mr. Vipan, a near relative, 

 relates how he wished to cut his boot off to release him, and 

 how Alec replied — 



" For goodness' sake dont cut the boot, or I shall have to buy 

 a nezv one /" which goes to show that, like Johnny Gilpin, 



" Although on pleasure bent, 

 He had a frugal mind." 



On Saturday, March 23, 1871, Alec Goodman, then in his 

 fifty-second year, participated for the last time in the sport of 

 which he had for over thirty years been so bright an ornament, 

 when he rode in and won the Hunt Cup Steeplechase at 

 Warwick, on a bay gelding by Mowbray, belonging to Mr. 

 Goodliffe; Redivivus (Mr. J. M. Richardson) being second, 

 Little Go (J. Adams) third, and Pantomime (Mr. Thomas) 

 fourth. 7 to 4 on Redivivus, 4 to i against the Mowbray 

 gelding, 5 to i Little Go. 



Only ten days previously a horse had rolled on him in a 

 steeplechase at Burton, giving him one of the worst falls he 

 had ever experienced, and he was in such pain that he wrote 

 to Mr. Goodliffe to say he would not be able to ride for him 

 at Warwick. However, on his old friend saying that under 

 these circumstances he would not run his horse. Alec decided 

 at the last moment to ride. 



Alec Goodman rode a waiting race until the last fence, 

 when he drew away and won in easy fashion by over twenty 

 lengths. Curiously enough, he was so little impressed with 

 the winning chance of his mount on looking him over prior to 

 the race, that he turned round and backed Redivivus to win 

 him ^30, so that he actually lost by the result. 



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