Gentlemen Riders 



Liverpool, the last-named horse carrying off the Hunt Cup at 

 Ascot the following year. A ludicrous incident occurred at 

 Ludlow on another occasion. The Colonel had gone there 

 specially to ride a certain horse, and having been duly 

 weighed out by owner and trainer, it was found that his mount 

 had been left behind at Stafford. 



At Bangor, once, the subject of our memoir won five races 

 in one day, and would have won a sixth but for Jack in the 

 Box, the horse he was riding, overjumping himself; whereby 

 his jockey broke three ribs, a collar-bone, injured his breast- 

 bone, and split his shoulder; the doctor, who examined him, 

 finding in addition, two ribs just knitting together which had 

 been broken, unknown to their owner, some ten days previously, 

 by a fall incurred while schooling a young one. 



He was riding a horse on one occasion that could only 

 come with one run. A rank bad one, he would stop to nothing 

 if he was hurried ; the result being that the one good horse in 

 the race got nearly a quarter of a mile in front. The Colonel, 

 however, came with one run, and at the end won by half a 

 length. After the race a personal friend came up : *' I never 

 saw you ride so badly," said he, " you ought to have won by 

 a mile," adding, *' I've bought the horse for three hundred." 

 A very dear bargain, as it turned out, as the brute proved as 

 useless in the hunting field as he was as a steeplechaser. 



Colonel Bulkely to this day cherishes a recollection of the 

 third steeplechase he ever took part in. As it may serve as an 

 object-lesson, we will give it in his own words : *' I was riding," 

 he says, " a mare called Traviata, at Windsor, and well do I 

 remember young Ben Land racing me up to the last turn, with 

 the result that I ran wide and he won by half a length, after- 

 wards remarking, ' Captain, this will be a lesson to you not to 

 be racing up to a turn, but to steady your mount before you 



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