Colonel C. Rivers Bulkely 



and the Maiden Plate at Barnet, and was afterwards sold for a 

 large sum, just before running the Sprite — for whom George 

 Fordham had given ;^i500 — to a head. 



New Oswestry was a good horse, his principal failing being 

 a tendency to take off ten yards before he came to a fence. It 

 was on this horse his owner once had an unlucky ride at 

 Ludlow. He had never been there, and was given to under- 

 stand that in the flat race he was about to ride New Oswestry, 

 he had to pass the stand three times, instead of which it 

 should have been twice ; the result was that his rider waited 

 too long, and was beat by a very inferior animal. 



Old Fashion, about 14 lbs. behind New Oswestry, was 

 a good mare, who invariably ran through her fences without 

 jumping them, and strange to say, in spite of this drawback, 

 never gave her owner a fall. On the contrary, he won on her 

 at Hoylake (over banks), Abingdon, Bangor, and Warwick (on 

 the flat), after which she was sold for ^^650. 



Colonel Bulkely always prophesied the mare would eventu- 

 ally break her neck, and this is what actually happened in a 

 steeplechase at Hall Green, when, with Mapling in the saddle, 

 she fell at the last fence, her new owner having refused a 

 thousand for her whilst the race was being run, so well was 

 she going. 



The Colonel once bought a half-sister to New Oswestry 

 from Captain (Rufus) Montgomery for ;^3o ; but the latter, 

 repenting of his deal, asked for her back again, with the result 

 that, just eight months afterwards, the mare came out and beat 

 New Oswestry in the big steeplechase at Cork. 



Colonel Bulkely won the Gold Cup at Ludlow in 1873, on 

 a horse belonging to Mr. Cotton, beating Mr. Thomas by a 

 head, and the winner must have been a good one, for he ran 

 second soon after to Lowlander in the big hurdle race at 



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